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Here we go: Centcom analysts who took negative view of progress against ISIS were told in e-mails...
Hotair ^ | 11/23/15 | ALLAHPUNDIT

Posted on 11/25/2015 2:14:45 PM PST by BlatherNaut

"Here we go: Centcom analysts who took negative view of progress against ISIS were told in e-mails to "cut it out"

I thought we already knew this, or at least knew the basics of it - defense analysts at Centcom were apparently pressured by their superiors to take a rosier view of the progress against ISIS than was actually warranted. Who precisely wanted the books cooked to suggest things were going well is the key question, which this story doesn't answer.

Great thinking, though, by the guilty parties in lying to the public about a jihadi threat, knowing that one major attack in the west would destroy their credibility instantly.

Analysts at U.S. Central Command were pressured to ease off negative assessments about the Islamic State threat and were even told in an email to "cut it out," Fox News has learned - as an investigation expands into whether intelligence reports were altered to present a more positive picture.

Fox News is told by a source close to the CENTCOM analysts that the pressure on them included at least two emails saying they needed to "cut it out" and "toe the line."

Separately, a former Pentagon official told Fox News there apparently was an attempt to destroy the communications. The Pentagon official said the email warnings were "not well received" by the analysts...

Among the complaints is that after the U.S. air campaign started in August 2014, the metrics to measure progress changed. They were modified to use measures such as the number of sorties and body counts - a metric not used since the Vietnam War - to paint a more positive picture.

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: centcom; highcrimes; insane; insanity; isis; islam; islamicterror; obama; treason; treasonous; trumpwasright; unfit; waronterrorism
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1 posted on 11/25/2015 2:14:45 PM PST by BlatherNaut
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To: BlatherNaut

And just who issued these directives? Hmmmmmm?.............


2 posted on 11/25/2015 2:17:55 PM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: BlatherNaut
There has been a high turn over of high ranking military officers in the last few years.

Could it be that the WH was weeding out the generals and admirals that were loyal to the truth rather than Obama?

3 posted on 11/25/2015 2:21:35 PM PST by oldbrowser (The kangaroos have taken over the supreme court.)
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To: Red Badger

Who’d have ever imagined our military brass would be so complicit to a regime?


4 posted on 11/25/2015 2:21:45 PM PST by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign. ###)
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To: ErnBatavia

Many of our “leaders” in govt are compromised LIB degenerates.


5 posted on 11/25/2015 2:23:33 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: BlatherNaut

This is a war on OIL, NOT a war on ISIS, as they are Bambi’s favorite anti-Christian, anti-Western Terrorists.


6 posted on 11/25/2015 2:24:02 PM PST by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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To: BlatherNaut

Forsaking forever their shot at the Oscar Koch award.

http://www.army.mil/article/116038/Third_Army_G2_Predicts_Battle_of_the_Bulge__9_December_1944/


7 posted on 11/25/2015 2:24:03 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Men need a reason to shop. Women need a place.)
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To: Red Badger

show us the emails


8 posted on 11/25/2015 2:25:51 PM PST by Thibodeaux (this time really is different)
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OOPS! They were accidentally lost in the search for Hillary’s and Lois Lerner’s e-mails.........sorry.......


9 posted on 11/25/2015 2:27:49 PM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: BlatherNaut
Great thinking, though, by the guilty parties in lying to the public about a jihadi threa

I thought this was intelligence going to Congress and the Executive, not the public.

10 posted on 11/25/2015 2:28:09 PM PST by semimojo
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To: ErnBatavia

The generals and admirals have their retirement to look after, and they don’t want to anger the CIC..................cowards all!...............


11 posted on 11/25/2015 2:29:10 PM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Red Badger
And just who issued these directives? Hmmmmmm?.............

Could it possibly from the muzzie in the Rainbow Hut? Think about that for a second the first gay mooslim in the White House!!!!!

12 posted on 11/25/2015 2:35:07 PM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: BlatherNaut

After 911, arming al Qaeda and lying to the American
People by the White Mosque and the Army of Hasan
has occurred ONLY because they, and the
corrupt complicit GOP, believe than Treason is
as American as apple pie and Thanksgiving.


13 posted on 11/25/2015 2:37:36 PM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: BlatherNaut
Charge them ALL with treason for aiding and abetting the growth of the ISIS cancer while making it APPEAR as though the reverse was true.

TREASON!!!

14 posted on 11/25/2015 2:37:36 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing
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To: BlatherNaut
Did the Joint Chiefs of Gender object?


15 posted on 11/25/2015 2:41:03 PM PST by montag813
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To: BlatherNaut

The Democrats were very big on fake body counts when they got us into and were responsible for cluster f@#$ing our guys in Vietnam too.


16 posted on 11/25/2015 2:43:27 PM PST by katana (Just my opinion)
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To: Red Badger

[And just who issued these directives? Hmmmmmm?.............]

Santa Clause? The Easter Bunny? Aliens from Roswell? Marie Harf? A Nobel Peace Prize winner?


17 posted on 11/25/2015 2:49:14 PM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: BlatherNaut

Wait. A cop video gets released and IT’S ALL EYES ON CHICAGO!!! WHAT TIMING, RAHM!!!


18 posted on 11/25/2015 3:08:48 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Red Badger

Yo Red B..... Smells like Val Jar, zero’s brilliant military strategist. oohrah!!!


19 posted on 11/25/2015 3:27:46 PM PST by willibeaux (de ole Korean War vet age 85)
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To: montag813
Did the Joint Chiefs of Gender object?

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20 posted on 11/25/2015 3:38:00 PM PST by digger48
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