Posted on 09/21/2015 9:51:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The intelligence pros said killing certain ISIS leaders might not diminish the group and that airstrikes might not be working. The bosses didn’t like those answers.
Senior intelligence officials at the U.S. military’s Central Command demanded significant alterations to analysts’ reports that questioned whether airstrikes against the so-called Islamic State widely known as ISIS were damaging the group’s finances and its ability to launch attacks. But reports that showed the group being weakened by the U.S.-led air campaign received comparatively little scrutiny, The Daily Beast has learned.
Senior CENTCOM intelligence officials who reviewed the critical reports sent them back to the analysts and ordered them to write new versions that included more footnotes and details to support their assessments, according to officials familiar with a complaint levied by more than 50 analysts about intelligence manipulation by CENTCOM higher-ups.
In some cases, analysts were also urged to state that killing particular ISIS leaders and key officials would diminish the group and lead to its collapse. Many analysts, however, didn’t believe that simply taking out top ISIS leaders would have an enduring effect on overall operations.
“There was the reality on the ground but it was not as rosy as [the leadership] wanted it to be,” a defense official familiar with the complaint told Daily Beast. “The challenge was assessing whether the glass was half empty, not half full.”
Some analysts have also complained that they felt “bullied” into reaching conclusions favored by their bosses, two separate sources familiar with analysts’ complaints said. The written and verbal pressure created a climate at CENTCOM in which analysts felt they had to self-censor some of their reports.
Some of the analysts have also accused their bosses of changing the reports in order to appeal to what they perceived as the Obama administration’s official line
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Doesn’t ISIS hold oil fields? Aren’t they selling that oil?
If so, then the time has come to bomb those — I bet they would blow up real good.
0dungo engineered the 'Syrian' refugee crisis in Europe.
Downplaying BOTH is the common thread. 0dungo is HELLBENT on flooding white civilizations with dirty third worlders. BOTH of these invasions are his legacy, and he needed to downplay ISIS in order to complete his evil agenda in Europe.
Both of these crisis have the same smell. The smell of Team 0dungo.
Strong indications that we have enemies running our country whose end goal is to take it over
JMHO but I think that there is enough evidence to prove that everyone in authority at 1600 Pa. Ave. NW is guilty of High Treason.
If 0dungo was sincere about going after ISIS, then there wouldn’t be an Islamization of Europe. Therefore, he ISN’T serious about going after ISIS just as he isn’t serious about sealing OUR border.
0dungo is either an agent for Islam or an agent for the U.N. Same thing I guess.
Send in the Food Stamp Force!
Send in the American Press Patrol!
Yes. Contrary to what many say, Barry Shi’ite Head is NOT stupid. This has all been done according to a plan to destroy the US as we know it.
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