50 US Spies Say ISIS Intelligence Was Cooked

[Ichingcarpenter]

It’s being called a ‘revolt’ by intelligence pros who are paid to give their honest assessment of the ISIS war—but are instead seeing their reports turned into happy talk.
More than 50 intelligence analysts working out of the U.S. military's Central Command have formally complained that their reports on ISIS and al Qaeda’s branch in Syria were being inappropriately altered by senior officials, The Daily Beast has learned.

The complaints spurred the Pentagon’s inspector general to open an investigation into the alleged manipulation of intelligence. The fact that so many people complained suggests there are deep-rooted, systemic problems in how the U.S. military command charged with the war against the self-proclaimed Islamic State assesses intelligence.

“The cancer was within the senior level of the intelligence command,” one defense official said.

Two senior analysts at CENTCOM signed a written complaint sent to the Defense Department inspector general in July alleging that the reports, some of which were briefed to President Obama, portrayed the terror groups as weaker than the analysts believe they are. The reports were changed by CENTCOM higher-ups to adhere to the administration’s public line that the U.S. is winning the battle against ISIS and al Nusra, al Qaeda’s branch in Syria, the analysts claim.

That complaint was supported by 50 other analysts, some of whom have complained about politicizing of intelligence reports for months. That’s according to 11 individuals who are knowledgeable about the details of the report and who spoke to The Daily Beast on condition of anonymity.

The accusations suggest that a large number of people tracking the inner workings of the terror groups think that their reports are being manipulated to fit a public narrative. The allegations echoed charges that political appointees and senior officials cherry-picked intelligence about Iraq’s supposed weapons program in 2002 and 2003......................


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/09/exclusive-50-spies-say-isis-intelligence-was-cooked.html

Can those war criminals now be prosecuted?

[marmar]

1. We've seen this movie before.

[liberal N proud]

2. Link no work

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Tried twice, same error!

I would like to know more about who is responsible for this shit! War mongers?

[marmar]

3. try this one

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/09/exclusive-50-spies-say-isis-intelligence-was-cooked.html

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. fixed in op n/t

[Frustratedlady]

5. Could these be leftovers from the Cheney/Bush administration?

No, I didn't make a mistake. We all know Cheney was running things and it always bothered me that he made sure some of his key people were protected in their jobs. How many of those still remain? How many were in intelligence? Quite a few, I would guess.

Just sayin'.

[Enthusiast]

11. This is US policy not renegade leftovers.

[malaise]

6. One word

DUH!!!!

[GreatGazoo]

7. ISIS is Saudia Arabia, Qatar and Turkey.

A proxy militia that gives us an excuse to bomb the shit out of Syria and overthrow Assad (to get Iran and Russia out of Syria)

so of course "the intelligence is cooked."

[Ichingcarpenter]

9. National Security Whistleblowers Call for Release of 28 Pages

With the 14th anniversary of the September 11 attacks approaching, three national security whistleblowers are adding their voices to the growing movement to declassify 28 pages from a 2002 congressional inquiry that document indications of foreign government support of the 9/11 hijackers.

Former senior NSA executive Thomas Drake and FBI veterans Mark Rossini and Coleen Rowley are all urging the release of the material that was classified by President George W. Bush amid controversy and criticism.

Meanwhile, an ongoing intelligence community review of the 28 pages for potential declassification, initiated by the White House last year under pressure from Congress, has already taken more than twice as long as the entire, far-reaching inquiry that produced them.

“After all these years, what is so secret about the 28 pages that so compels the government to still keep hidden from the public, and the families of those murdered on 9/11, the fuller truth of what happened?,” Drake asked in a message to 28Pages.org.
Drake alerted Congress to NSA failures in the months leading up to 9/11, and blew the whistle on mass surveillance programs that he, among many others, considers a sweeping violation of the United States Constitution.

Former Senate intelligence committee chairman Bob Graham—who presided over the congressional inquiry that wrote the 28 pages as part of an report—has said the 28 pages implicate Saudi Arabia, and that, by shielding the kingdom from scrutiny of its funding of extremists, the classification of the pages paved the way for the rise of ISIS.


http://28pages.org/2015/09/09/national-security-whistleblowers-call-for-release-of-28-pages/

[tk2kewl]

10. would be nice know

[Enthusiast]

12. A clear evidence trail of LIHOP.

[Rex]

8. Perception is more important than reality. No wonder we are killing off the planet and us

along with it! Happy clouds! All we need to do is believe in Happy clouds and the world will be O K.

Yup yup...