Anybody who's surprised by this, either stand on your head or show us your O-swoosh/"Hopenchange" tattoos:
The Pentagon may have doctored intelligence reports regarding the offensive against the Islamic State (ISIS) in order to show better results, according to a new report.
Starting by exposing the fact that there isn't any "offensive" against the Islamic State, but only the media/kabuki theater/"pin-pricking" appearance of same for public consumption.
A New York Times [!] story reports the Pentagon's inspector general is looking into claims the documents were altered before being given to Barack Obama and other government officials.
On his, and their, orders, of course.
A civilian contractor, reports the Times, initially told authorities about the assessments being changed by officials at United States Central Command, known as CENTCOM. The report does not specify who at CENTCOM made the changes and when.
The investigation is apparently looking at whether draft reports were changed before being passed up the military food chain.
There are two possibilities: (1) Obama ordered this "doctoring" as part of his own ongoing pro-jihadist propaganda deceptions; or (2) he didn't have to give such orders because everybody in CENTCOM knows what it is he wants to see and gave it to him without having to be specifically directed to do so.
The Borg call it "assimilation".
UPDATE: Former Air Force Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Michael Flynn concurs:
Terror analysts were pressured by senior military and intelligence officials to alter their assessments about the strength of the Islamic State group (ISIS) — and the effectiveness of the U.S.-led fight against the jihadists, the Daily Beast reports.
If analysts' reports were too pessimistic, or questioned whether the Iraq military could beat ISIS, they were either sent back — or never made it to the desks of senior policymakers, sources tell the Daily Beast.
In other cases, analysts wrote what they felt they were expected to write, the Daily Beast reports.
"The phrase I use is the politicization of the intelligence community," retired Lieutenant-General Michael Flynn, the former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told the Daily Beast about the "spinning."
"That’s here. And it’s dangerous."
Politicized intelligence, huh? I seem to recall that accusation being tossed off several hundred times a day in the previous decade. But this is a Democrat administration, so it's all good, I'm guessing.
Until ISIS pulls off the next 9/11 or worse. Then it will be "all Bush's fault," of course.
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