Obama administration busted for manipulating DIA Analyst's data ion ISIS:

Inquiry Weighs Whether ISIS Analysis Was Distorted
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/26/world/middleeast/pentagon-investigates-allegations-of-skewed-intelligence-reports-on-isis.html?_r=3

Exclusive: 50 Spies Say ISIS Intelligence Was Cooked
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/09/exclusive-50-spies-say-isis-intelligence-was-cooked.html

CBS News affirmation of ISIS data manipulation included.

Dozens of intelligence analysts reportedly claim assessments of ISIS were altered
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/10/dozens-intelligence-analysts-reportedly-claim-reports-on-isis-were-altered.html

Is Someone Politicizing Intelligence on ISIS?
http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2015/08/28/is-the-us-military-artificially-optimistic-about-the-war-against-isis/

The above details a problem within the military. I wonder how long they've been doing this and whether the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghan wars were investigated.

_______________________________________________________________________

Obama administration busted for manipulating DIA Analyst's data on ISIS.

You comment is nothing more than deflection and is irrelevant to the issue at hand.

None of those articles state that Obama did anything but perhaps receive doctored results. Your sources simply do not support your allegations.

_____________________________________________________________________

The DIA Analysts data was manipulated by The Obama administration and then the altered information was given to The Pentagon to publish. Three of Obama's now former Sec. of Defense have said so publicly and two of them in their books.

Get informed son.

Surprised you've read these books. You should cite them with quotes if they support your argument here. Since you have not done this you still lose.

________________________________________________________________________

Proving yet again you cannot read and understand the content.
Get informed son.

Do you mean things like reading the reason the USS Theodore Roosevelt was sent home? That took me about 30 seconds to research and post. And you didn't even take the time to thank me for doing your research for you. You are one lazy ignorant clown. 😛

________________________________________________________________________

"Do you mean things like reading the reason the USS Theodore Roosevelt was sent home?"

Obama has pulled all three carrier groups from the Middle East.
The cover story of "maintenance" is the Obama administration's spin of Obama's latest cut and run.
If you had actually researched the reason you would have seen that The Big Stick had three more months of deployment capability.

Try again son.

If you really had evidence of that, you would have posted the link. It is much easier for you to dismiss and lie. Too bad you were caught lying again. SSDD.

_________________________________________________________________________

Article published in The Navy Times.
The link is up to the one challenging facts they were unable to research.
I'm happy to spoon feed a baby but not an idiot.

Try again son.

I went to The Navy Times web site. I searched the site for USS Theodore Roosevelt. There were 6 hits. The most recent story was from January. There was nothing about the carriers return to the US or anything about Obama. Nice try, wrong again.

You seem to think that you can make stuff up and the rest of us won't check it out. The fact that you haven't learned that you can't do that and get away with it shows you in a very bad light. But you knew that already. 😛

_______________________________________________________________________

You have repeatedly proven you are incapable of basic research.
Try again son.

Obama administration busted for manipulating DIA Analyst's data ion ISIS:

Inquiry Weighs Whether ISIS Analysis Was Distorted
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/26/world/middleeast/pentagon-investigates-allegations-of-skewed-intelligence-reports-on-isis.html?_r=3

Exclusive: 50 Spies Say ISIS Intelligence Was Cooked
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/09/exclusive-50-spies-say-isis-intelligence-was-cooked.html

CBS News affirmation of ISIS data manipulation included.

Dozens of intelligence analysts reportedly claim assessments of ISIS were altered
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/10/dozens-intelligence-analysts-reportedly-claim-reports-on-isis-were-altered.html

Is Someone Politicizing Intelligence on ISIS?
http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2015/08/28/is-the-us-military-artificially-optimistic-about-the-war-against-isis/

The above details a problem within the military. I wonder how long they've been doing this and whether the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghan wars were investigated.

_______________________________________________________________________

Obama administration busted for manipulating DIA Analyst's data on ISIS.

You comment is nothing more than deflection and is irrelevant to the issue at hand.

None of those articles state that Obama did anything but perhaps receive doctored results. Your sources simply do not support your allegations.

_____________________________________________________________________

The DIA Analysts data was manipulated by The Obama administration and then the altered information was given to The Pentagon to publish. Three of Obama's now former Sec. of Defense have said so publicly and two of them in their books.

Get informed son.

Surprised you've read these books. You should cite them with quotes if they support your argument here. Since you have not done this you still lose.

________________________________________________________________________

Proving yet again you cannot read and understand the content.
Get informed son.

Do you mean things like reading the reason the USS Theodore Roosevelt was sent home? That took me about 30 seconds to research and post. And you didn't even take the time to thank me for doing your research for you. You are one lazy ignorant clown. 😛

________________________________________________________________________

"Do you mean things like reading the reason the USS Theodore Roosevelt was sent home?"

Obama has pulled all three carrier groups from the Middle East.
The cover story of "maintenance" is the Obama administration's spin of Obama's latest cut and run.
If you had actually researched the reason you would have seen that The Big Stick had three more months of deployment capability.

Try again son.

If you really had evidence of that, you would have posted the link. It is much easier for you to dismiss and lie. Too bad you were caught lying again. SSDD.

_________________________________________________________________________

Article published in The Navy Times.
The link is up to the one challenging facts they were unable to research.
I'm happy to spoon feed a baby but not an idiot.

Try again son.

I went to The Navy Times web site. I searched the site for USS Theodore Roosevelt. There were 6 hits. The most recent story was from January. There was nothing about the carriers return to the US or anything about Obama. Nice try, wrong again.

You seem to think that you can make stuff up and the rest of us won't check it out. The fact that you haven't learned that you can't do that and get away with it shows you in a very bad light. But you knew that already. 😛

_______________________________________________________________________

You have repeatedly proven you are incapable of basic research.
Try again son.

The onus is on you to back your argument. You are BSing again, a habit that has become very addictive in RW circles. Keep at it.

Obama administration busted for manipulating DIA Analyst's data ion ISIS:

Inquiry Weighs Whether ISIS Analysis Was Distorted
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/26/world/middleeast/pentagon-investigates-allegations-of-skewed-intelligence-reports-on-isis.html?_r=3

Exclusive: 50 Spies Say ISIS Intelligence Was Cooked
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/09/exclusive-50-spies-say-isis-intelligence-was-cooked.html

CBS News affirmation of ISIS data manipulation included.

Dozens of intelligence analysts reportedly claim assessments of ISIS were altered
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/10/dozens-intelligence-analysts-reportedly-claim-reports-on-isis-were-altered.html

Is Someone Politicizing Intelligence on ISIS?
http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2015/08/28/is-the-us-military-artificially-optimistic-about-the-war-against-isis/

The above details a problem within the military. I wonder how long they've been doing this and whether the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghan wars were investigated.

_______________________________________________________________________

Obama administration busted for manipulating DIA Analyst's data on ISIS.

You comment is nothing more than deflection and is irrelevant to the issue at hand.

None of those articles state that Obama did anything but perhaps receive doctored results. Your sources simply do not support your allegations.

_____________________________________________________________________

The DIA Analysts data was manipulated by The Obama administration and then the altered information was given to The Pentagon to publish. Three of Obama's now former Sec. of Defense have said so publicly and two of them in their books.

Get informed son.

Surprised you've read these books. You should cite them with quotes if they support your argument here. Since you have not done this you still lose.

________________________________________________________________________

Proving yet again you cannot read and understand the content.
Get informed son.

Do you mean things like reading the reason the USS Theodore Roosevelt was sent home? That took me about 30 seconds to research and post. And you didn't even take the time to thank me for doing your research for you. You are one lazy ignorant clown. 😛

________________________________________________________________________

"Do you mean things like reading the reason the USS Theodore Roosevelt was sent home?"

Obama has pulled all three carrier groups from the Middle East.
The cover story of "maintenance" is the Obama administration's spin of Obama's latest cut and run.
If you had actually researched the reason you would have seen that The Big Stick had three more months of deployment capability.

Try again son.

If you really had evidence of that, you would have posted the link. It is much easier for you to dismiss and lie. Too bad you were caught lying again. SSDD.

_________________________________________________________________________

Article published in The Navy Times.
The link is up to the one challenging facts they were unable to research.
I'm happy to spoon feed a baby but not an idiot.

Try again son.

I went to The Navy Times web site. I searched the site for USS Theodore Roosevelt. There were 6 hits. The most recent story was from January. There was nothing about the carriers return to the US or anything about Obama. Nice try, wrong again.

You seem to think that you can make stuff up and the rest of us won't check it out. The fact that you haven't learned that you can't do that and get away with it shows you in a very bad light. But you knew that already. 😛

_______________________________________________________________________

You have repeatedly proven you are incapable of basic research.
Try again son.

The onus is on you to back your argument. You are BSing again, a habit that has become very addictive in RW circles. Keep at it.

He has no idea what "onus" means. he thinks it is a body part. He is also the guy who posted a link about the origin of ISIS that proved him to be wrong. And he mocks other people's intelligence. 😛

Obama administration busted for manipulating DIA Analyst's data ion ISIS:

Inquiry Weighs Whether ISIS Analysis Was Distorted
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/26/world/middleeast/pentagon-investigates-allegations-of-skewed-intelligence-reports-on-isis.html?_r=3

Exclusive: 50 Spies Say ISIS Intelligence Was Cooked
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/09/exclusive-50-spies-say-isis-intelligence-was-cooked.html

CBS News affirmation of ISIS data manipulation included.

Dozens of intelligence analysts reportedly claim assessments of ISIS were altered
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/10/dozens-intelligence-analysts-reportedly-claim-reports-on-isis-were-altered.html

Is Someone Politicizing Intelligence on ISIS?
http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2015/08/28/is-the-us-military-artificially-optimistic-about-the-war-against-isis/

The above details a problem within the military. I wonder how long they've been doing this and whether the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghan wars were investigated.

_______________________________________________________________________

Obama administration busted for manipulating DIA Analyst's data on ISIS.

You comment is nothing more than deflection and is irrelevant to the issue at hand.

None of those articles state that Obama did anything but perhaps receive doctored results. Your sources simply do not support your allegations.

_____________________________________________________________________

The DIA Analysts data was manipulated by The Obama administration and then the altered information was given to The Pentagon to publish. Three of Obama's now former Sec. of Defense have said so publicly and two of them in their books.

Get informed son.

Surprised you've read these books. You should cite them with quotes if they support your argument here. Since you have not done this you still lose.

________________________________________________________________________

Proving yet again you cannot read and understand the content.
Get informed son.

Do you mean things like reading the reason the USS Theodore Roosevelt was sent home? That took me about 30 seconds to research and post. And you didn't even take the time to thank me for doing your research for you. You are one lazy ignorant clown. 😛

________________________________________________________________________

"Do you mean things like reading the reason the USS Theodore Roosevelt was sent home?"

Obama has pulled all three carrier groups from the Middle East.
The cover story of "maintenance" is the Obama administration's spin of Obama's latest cut and run.
If you had actually researched the reason you would have seen that The Big Stick had three more months of deployment capability.

Try again son.

If you really had evidence of that, you would have posted the link. It is much easier for you to dismiss and lie. Too bad you were caught lying again. SSDD.

_________________________________________________________________________

Article published in The Navy Times.
The link is up to the one challenging facts they were unable to research.
I'm happy to spoon feed a baby but not an idiot.

Try again son.

I went to The Navy Times web site. I searched the site for USS Theodore Roosevelt. There were 6 hits. The most recent story was from January. There was nothing about the carriers return to the US or anything about Obama. Nice try, wrong again.

You seem to think that you can make stuff up and the rest of us won't check it out. The fact that you haven't learned that you can't do that and get away with it shows you in a very bad light. But you knew that already. 😛

_______________________________________________________________________

You have repeatedly proven you are incapable of basic research.
Try again son.

The onus is on you to back your argument. You are BSing again, a habit that has become very addictive in RW circles. Keep at it.

He has no idea what "onus" means. he thinks it is a body part. He is also the guy who posted a link about the origin of ISIS that proved him to be wrong. And he mocks other people's intelligence. 😛

______________________________________________________________

The onus belongs to swifty dumba$$.

You should love his pro-terrorist posts.

Obama administration busted for manipulating DIA Analyst's data ion ISIS:

Inquiry Weighs Whether ISIS Analysis Was Distorted
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/26/world/middleeast/pentagon-investigates-allegations-of-skewed-intelligence-reports-on-isis.html?_r=3

Exclusive: 50 Spies Say ISIS Intelligence Was Cooked
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/09/exclusive-50-spies-say-isis-intelligence-was-cooked.html

CBS News affirmation of ISIS data manipulation included.

Dozens of intelligence analysts reportedly claim assessments of ISIS were altered
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/10/dozens-intelligence-analysts-reportedly-claim-reports-on-isis-were-altered.html

Is Someone Politicizing Intelligence on ISIS?
http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2015/08/28/is-the-us-military-artificially-optimistic-about-the-war-against-isis/

The above details a problem within the military. I wonder how long they've been doing this and whether the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghan wars were investigated.

_______________________________________________________________________

Obama administration busted for manipulating DIA Analyst's data on ISIS.

You comment is nothing more than deflection and is irrelevant to the issue at hand.

None of those articles state that Obama did anything but perhaps receive doctored results. Your sources simply do not support your allegations.

_____________________________________________________________________

The DIA Analysts data was manipulated by The Obama administration and then the altered information was given to The Pentagon to publish. Three of Obama's now former Sec. of Defense have said so publicly and two of them in their books.

Get informed son.

Surprised you've read these books. You should cite them with quotes if they support your argument here. Since you have not done this you still lose.

________________________________________________________________________

Proving yet again you cannot read and understand the content.
Get informed son.

Do you mean things like reading the reason the USS Theodore Roosevelt was sent home? That took me about 30 seconds to research and post. And you didn't even take the time to thank me for doing your research for you. You are one lazy ignorant clown. 😛

________________________________________________________________________

"Do you mean things like reading the reason the USS Theodore Roosevelt was sent home?"

Obama has pulled all three carrier groups from the Middle East.
The cover story of "maintenance" is the Obama administration's spin of Obama's latest cut and run.
If you had actually researched the reason you would have seen that The Big Stick had three more months of deployment capability.

Try again son.

If you really had evidence of that, you would have posted the link. It is much easier for you to dismiss and lie. Too bad you were caught lying again. SSDD.

_________________________________________________________________________

Article published in The Navy Times.
The link is up to the one challenging facts they were unable to research.
I'm happy to spoon feed a baby but not an idiot.

Try again son.

I went to The Navy Times web site. I searched the site for USS Theodore Roosevelt. There were 6 hits. The most recent story was from January. There was nothing about the carriers return to the US or anything about Obama. Nice try, wrong again.

You seem to think that you can make stuff up and the rest of us won't check it out. The fact that you haven't learned that you can't do that and get away with it shows you in a very bad light. But you knew that already. 😛

_______________________________________________________________________

You have repeatedly proven you are incapable of basic research.
Try again son.

The onus is on you to back your argument. You are BSing again, a habit that has become very addictive in RW circles. Keep at it.

He has no idea what "onus" means. he thinks it is a body part. He is also the guy who posted a link about the origin of ISIS that proved him to be wrong. And he mocks other people's intelligence. 😛

______________________________________________________________

The onus belongs to swifty dumba$$.

You should love his pro-terrorist posts.

Like I said, he doesn't know what onus means. 😛

Obama's idea to show U.S. Naval power in the Med:

[Edited on 11/22/2015 by Muleman1994]

Obama administration busted for manipulating DIA Analyst's data ion ISIS:

Inquiry Weighs Whether ISIS Analysis Was Distorted
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/26/world/middleeast/pentagon-investigates-allegations-of-skewed-intelligence-reports-on-isis.html?_r=3

Exclusive: 50 Spies Say ISIS Intelligence Was Cooked
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/09/exclusive-50-spies-say-isis-intelligence-was-cooked.html

CBS News affirmation of ISIS data manipulation included.

Dozens of intelligence analysts reportedly claim assessments of ISIS were altered
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/10/dozens-intelligence-analysts-reportedly-claim-reports-on-isis-were-altered.html

Is Someone Politicizing Intelligence on ISIS?
http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2015/08/28/is-the-us-military-artificially-optimistic-about-the-war-against-isis/

The above details a problem within the military. I wonder how long they've been doing this and whether the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghan wars were investigated.

_______________________________________________________________________

Obama administration busted for manipulating DIA Analyst's data on ISIS.

You comment is nothing more than deflection and is irrelevant to the issue at hand.

None of those articles state that Obama did anything but perhaps receive doctored results. Your sources simply do not support your allegations.

_____________________________________________________________________

The DIA Analysts data was manipulated by The Obama administration and then the altered information was given to The Pentagon to publish. Three of Obama's now former Sec. of Defense have said so publicly and two of them in their books.

Get informed son.

Surprised you've read these books. You should cite them with quotes if they support your argument here. Since you have not done this you still lose.

________________________________________________________________________

Proving yet again you cannot read and understand the content.
Get informed son.

Do you mean things like reading the reason the USS Theodore Roosevelt was sent home? That took me about 30 seconds to research and post. And you didn't even take the time to thank me for doing your research for you. You are one lazy ignorant clown. 😛

________________________________________________________________________

"Do you mean things like reading the reason the USS Theodore Roosevelt was sent home?"

Obama has pulled all three carrier groups from the Middle East.
The cover story of "maintenance" is the Obama administration's spin of Obama's latest cut and run.
If you had actually researched the reason you would have seen that The Big Stick had three more months of deployment capability.

Try again son.

If you really had evidence of that, you would have posted the link. It is much easier for you to dismiss and lie. Too bad you were caught lying again. SSDD.

_________________________________________________________________________

Article published in The Navy Times.
The link is up to the one challenging facts they were unable to research.
I'm happy to spoon feed a baby but not an idiot.

Try again son.

I went to The Navy Times web site. I searched the site for USS Theodore Roosevelt. There were 6 hits. The most recent story was from January. There was nothing about the carriers return to the US or anything about Obama. Nice try, wrong again.

You seem to think that you can make stuff up and the rest of us won't check it out. The fact that you haven't learned that you can't do that and get away with it shows you in a very bad light. But you knew that already. 😛

_______________________________________________________________________

You have repeatedly proven you are incapable of basic research.
Try again son.

The onus is on you to back your argument. You are BSing again, a habit that has become very addictive in RW circles. Keep at it.

He has no idea what "onus" means. he thinks it is a body part. He is also the guy who posted a link about the origin of ISIS that proved him to be wrong. And he mocks other people's intelligence. 😛

______________________________________________________________

The onus belongs to swifty dumba$$.

You should love his pro-terrorist posts.

The polices reflect those of the president. You seem very quick to challenge President Obama even where you have to make things up. From this it is evident you do not have a clue how a democracy works. You are totally out of your league in any of these discussions which is why you resort to distortions, lies and name calling. It's got to be a sad life.

Cute. It describes you quite well.

http://world.time.com/2011/10/21/iraq-not-obama-called-time-on-the-u-s-troop-presence/

In one of his final acts in office, President Bush in December of 2008 had signed a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the Iraqi government that set the clock ticking on ending the war he’d launched in March of 2003. The SOFA provided a legal basis for the presence of U.S. forces in Iraq after the United Nations Security Council mandate for the occupation mission expired at the end of 2008. But it required that all U.S. forces be gone from Iraq by January 1, 2012, unless the Iraqi government was willing to negotiate a new agreement that would extend their mandate. And as Middle East historian Juan Cole has noted, “Bush had to sign what the [Iraqi] parliament gave him or face the prospect that U.S. troops would have to leave by 31 December, 2008, something that would have been interpreted as a defeat… Bush and his generals clearly expected, however, that over time Washington would be able to wriggle out of the treaty and would find a way to keep a division or so in Iraq past that deadline.”

Then there is this:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/middle-east/article24511081.html

This agreement has been signed in Baghdad on the 17th day of the month of November, 2008 in two original copies in both the Arabic and English languages and both texts are equal in legal procedures.

Then there is the actual text from the government web site.

http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/122074.pdf

Keep on lying and ignoring.

Commie! Pinko! TRAITOR!!!

The New York Times exposes the Obama Administration’s Distortion of Facts on ISIS
Obama has lied to you again.

Pentagon Expands Inquiry Into Intelligence on ISIS Surge
By MATT APUZZO, MARK MAZZETTI and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDTNOV. 21, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/us/politics/military-reviews-us-response-to-isis-rise.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0

WASHINGTON — When Islamic State fighters overran a string of Iraqi cities last year, analysts at United States Central Command wrote classified assessments for military intelligence officials and policy makers that documented the humiliating retreat of the Iraqi Army. But before the assessments were final, former intelligence officials said, the analysts’ superiors made significant changes.

In the revised documents, the Iraqi Army had not retreated at all. The soldiers had simply “redeployed.”

Such changes are at the heart of an expanding internal Pentagon investigation of Centcom, as Central Command is known, where analysts say that supervisors revised conclusions to mask some of the American military’s failures in training Iraqi troops and beating back the Islamic State. The analysts say supervisors were particularly eager to paint a more optimistic picture of America’s role in the conflict than was warranted.

In recent weeks, the Pentagon inspector general seized a large trove of emails and documents from military servers as it examines the claims, and has added more investigators to the inquiry.

The attacks in Paris last week were a deadly demonstration that the Islamic State, once a group of militants focused on seizing territory in Iraq and Syria, has broadened its focus to attack the West. The electronic files seized in the Pentagon investigation tell the story of the group’s rise, as seen through the eyes of Centcom, which oversees military operations across the Middle East.

The exact content of those documents is unclear and may not become public because so much of the information is classified. But military officials have told Congress that some of those emails and documents may have been deleted before they had to be turned over to investigators, according to a senior congressional official, who requested anonymity to speak about the ongoing inquiry. Current and former officials have separately made similar claims, on condition of anonymity, to The New York Times. Although lawmakers are demanding answers about those claims, it is not clear that the inspector general has been able to verify them. A spokeswoman for the inspector general declined to comment.

Staff members at the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence are also poring over years of Centcom intelligence reports and comparing them to assessments from the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency and others. The committee is not just examining reports about Iraq, Syria and the Islamic State, but also about Afghanistan and other areas under Centcom’s purview. The insurrection inside Centcom is an important chapter in the story of how the United States responded to the growing threat from the Islamic State. This past summer, a group of Centcom analysts took concerns about their superiors to the inspector general, saying they had evidence that senior officials had changed intelligence assessments to overstate the progress of American airstrikes against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS.

The analysts said problems in Iraq were rooted in deep political and religious divides that could not easily be solved with a military campaign, current and former officials have said. Yet Centcom’s official posture remained generally upbeat.

It is not clear whether the Centcom assessments significantly changed the Obama administration’s views about ISIS. While Centcom was largely positive about American gains, other agencies have been more pessimistic. The White House has generally been measured in its assessments.

But President Obama and senior intelligence officials have acknowledged that the Islamic State’s rapid emergence caught them by surprise. At the least, the prospect that senior officials intentionally skewed intelligence conclusions has raised questions about how much Mr. Obama, Congress and the public can believe the military’s assessments.

Those questions have taken on a new urgency since the terror attacks in Paris, which signaled a new determination by ISIS to carry out terror attacks beyond the territory in Iraq and Syria it has declared its “caliphate.” Pressure has grown on the White House to articulate a more muscular strategy for dismantling the group, and a chorus of Republican lawmakers and presidential candidates are calling for an American ground campaign in Syria.

Senior lawmakers have begun their own inquiries into the military’s intelligence apparatus. Representative Mac Thornberry, the Republican from Texas who is chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said in an interview that his committee was examining intelligence assessments from Centcom and other military commands to see if there was a systemic problem of dissenting voices being muffled by senior military commanders.

“Any time there is an allegation that intelligence is being shaved in a certain way, or distorted in a certain way, that’s a cause for serious concern,” he said.

Mr. Thornberry said that Congress has to be careful not to impede the progress of the inspector general’s investigators, but that lawmakers “also have a job to do.”

On Thursday, Foreign Policy reported that a group of Republican lawmakers will be focusing on whether Centcom also skewed intelligence assessments about Afghanistan.

Representative Devin Nunes of California, the Republican chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, has been eager to expand his panel’s inquiry into the Centcom assessments. Mr. Nunes is planning to send a letter to the inspector general on Monday asking if emails and documents relevant to the investigation have indeed been deleted. He is also asking for copies of any deleted materials that investigators might be able to retrieve from Centcom servers.

For the moment, Mr. Nunes is making the request without the support of his Democratic counterpart, Representative Adam B. Schiff of California. Mr. Schiff said questions about skewed intelligence needed to be taken “very seriously,” but that the inspector general should be allowed to finish the inquiry before the House intelligence committee considered expanding its own investigation.

The committee has asked the Pentagon for permission to interview officials, including the two most senior intelligence officers at Centcom, Maj. Gen. Steven Grove and his civilian deputy, Gregory Ryckman. The request was denied by Pentagon officials, citing the ongoing internal investigation.

That investigation was prompted by complaints this past summer from Centcom’s longtime Iraq experts, led by Gregory Hooker, the senior Iraq analyst. In some ways, the team’s criticisms mirror those of a decade ago, when Mr. Hooker wrote a research paper saying the Bush administration, over many analysts’ objections, advocated a small force in Iraq and spent little time planning for what would follow the invasion.

Lawmakers originally said that the Centcom investigation would be completed in weeks. But Pentagon investigators have found the work painstaking and it could span months. In addition to determining whether changes were made to intelligence reports — and if so, who ordered them — the investigators, like the staff members of the House intelligence committee, are studying reports from other intelligence agencies produced at the time to determine what was actually occurring in Iraq and Syria when the reports were written.

Col. Patrick Ryder, a Centcom spokesman, said that the command welcomed the inspector general’s oversight and would respond to requests from Congress for information, and that Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, the Centcom commander, would “take appropriate action once the investigation results have been received and reviewed.”

U.S. Investigators Struggle to Track Homegrown ISIS Suspects
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/20/us/us-investigators-struggle-to-track-homegrown-isis-suspects.html?action=click&contentCollection=Politics&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=Marginalia&pgtype=article

Analysts Detail Claims That Reports on ISIS Were Distorted
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/16/us/politics/analysts-said-to-provide-evidence-of-distorted-reports-on-isis.html?action=click&contentCollection=Politics&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=Marginalia&pgtype=article

Military Analyst Again Raises Red Flags on Progress in Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/world/military-analyst-again-raises-red-flags-on-progress-in-iraq.html?action=click&contentCollection=Politics&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=Marginalia&pgtype=article

The New York Times exposes the Obama Administration’s Distortion of Facts on ISIS
Obama has lied to you again.

Pentagon Expands Inquiry Into Intelligence on ISIS Surge
By MATT APUZZO, MARK MAZZETTI and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDTNOV. 21, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/us/politics/military-reviews-us-response-to-isis-rise.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0

WASHINGTON — When Islamic State fighters overran a string of Iraqi cities last year, analysts at United States Central Command wrote classified assessments for military intelligence officials and policy makers that documented the humiliating retreat of the Iraqi Army. But before the assessments were final, former intelligence officials said, the analysts’ superiors made significant changes.

In the revised documents, the Iraqi Army had not retreated at all. The soldiers had simply “redeployed.”

Such changes are at the heart of an expanding internal Pentagon investigation of Centcom, as Central Command is known, where analysts say that supervisors revised conclusions to mask some of the American military’s failures in training Iraqi troops and beating back the Islamic State. The analysts say supervisors were particularly eager to paint a more optimistic picture of America’s role in the conflict than was warranted.

In recent weeks, the Pentagon inspector general seized a large trove of emails and documents from military servers as it examines the claims, and has added more investigators to the inquiry.

The attacks in Paris last week were a deadly demonstration that the Islamic State, once a group of militants focused on seizing territory in Iraq and Syria, has broadened its focus to attack the West. The electronic files seized in the Pentagon investigation tell the story of the group’s rise, as seen through the eyes of Centcom, which oversees military operations across the Middle East.

The exact content of those documents is unclear and may not become public because so much of the information is classified. But military officials have told Congress that some of those emails and documents may have been deleted before they had to be turned over to investigators, according to a senior congressional official, who requested anonymity to speak about the ongoing inquiry. Current and former officials have separately made similar claims, on condition of anonymity, to The New York Times. Although lawmakers are demanding answers about those claims, it is not clear that the inspector general has been able to verify them. A spokeswoman for the inspector general declined to comment.

Staff members at the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence are also poring over years of Centcom intelligence reports and comparing them to assessments from the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency and others. The committee is not just examining reports about Iraq, Syria and the Islamic State, but also about Afghanistan and other areas under Centcom’s purview. The insurrection inside Centcom is an important chapter in the story of how the United States responded to the growing threat from the Islamic State. This past summer, a group of Centcom analysts took concerns about their superiors to the inspector general, saying they had evidence that senior officials had changed intelligence assessments to overstate the progress of American airstrikes against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS.

The analysts said problems in Iraq were rooted in deep political and religious divides that could not easily be solved with a military campaign, current and former officials have said. Yet Centcom’s official posture remained generally upbeat.

It is not clear whether the Centcom assessments significantly changed the Obama administration’s views about ISIS. While Centcom was largely positive about American gains, other agencies have been more pessimistic. The White House has generally been measured in its assessments.

But President Obama and senior intelligence officials have acknowledged that the Islamic State’s rapid emergence caught them by surprise. At the least, the prospect that senior officials intentionally skewed intelligence conclusions has raised questions about how much Mr. Obama, Congress and the public can believe the military’s assessments.

Those questions have taken on a new urgency since the terror attacks in Paris, which signaled a new determination by ISIS to carry out terror attacks beyond the territory in Iraq and Syria it has declared its “caliphate.” Pressure has grown on the White House to articulate a more muscular strategy for dismantling the group, and a chorus of Republican lawmakers and presidential candidates are calling for an American ground campaign in Syria.

Senior lawmakers have begun their own inquiries into the military’s intelligence apparatus. Representative Mac Thornberry, the Republican from Texas who is chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said in an interview that his committee was examining intelligence assessments from Centcom and other military commands to see if there was a systemic problem of dissenting voices being muffled by senior military commanders.

“Any time there is an allegation that intelligence is being shaved in a certain way, or distorted in a certain way, that’s a cause for serious concern,” he said.

Mr. Thornberry said that Congress has to be careful not to impede the progress of the inspector general’s investigators, but that lawmakers “also have a job to do.”

On Thursday, Foreign Policy reported that a group of Republican lawmakers will be focusing on whether Centcom also skewed intelligence assessments about Afghanistan.

Representative Devin Nunes of California, the Republican chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, has been eager to expand his panel’s inquiry into the Centcom assessments. Mr. Nunes is planning to send a letter to the inspector general on Monday asking if emails and documents relevant to the investigation have indeed been deleted. He is also asking for copies of any deleted materials that investigators might be able to retrieve from Centcom servers.

For the moment, Mr. Nunes is making the request without the support of his Democratic counterpart, Representative Adam B. Schiff of California. Mr. Schiff said questions about skewed intelligence needed to be taken “very seriously,” but that the inspector general should be allowed to finish the inquiry before the House intelligence committee considered expanding its own investigation.

The committee has asked the Pentagon for permission to interview officials, including the two most senior intelligence officers at Centcom, Maj. Gen. Steven Grove and his civilian deputy, Gregory Ryckman. The request was denied by Pentagon officials, citing the ongoing internal investigation.

That investigation was prompted by complaints this past summer from Centcom’s longtime Iraq experts, led by Gregory Hooker, the senior Iraq analyst. In some ways, the team’s criticisms mirror those of a decade ago, when Mr. Hooker wrote a research paper saying the Bush administration, over many analysts’ objections, advocated a small force in Iraq and spent little time planning for what would follow the invasion.

Lawmakers originally said that the Centcom investigation would be completed in weeks. But Pentagon investigators have found the work painstaking and it could span months. In addition to determining whether changes were made to intelligence reports — and if so, who ordered them — the investigators, like the staff members of the House intelligence committee, are studying reports from other intelligence agencies produced at the time to determine what was actually occurring in Iraq and Syria when the reports were written.

Col. Patrick Ryder, a Centcom spokesman, said that the command welcomed the inspector general’s oversight and would respond to requests from Congress for information, and that Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, the Centcom commander, would “take appropriate action once the investigation results have been received and reviewed.”

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Now the New York Times is a credible source? 😛

"Now the New York Times is a credible source?"

According to the liberals it is or are you now calling The New York Times faux news?

Now run to a left-wing political attack site and find yourself a delusional opinion piece you can copy and paste.

"Now the New York Times is a credible source?"

According to the liberals it is or are you now calling The New York Times faux news?

Now run to a left-wing political attack site and find yourself a delusional opinion piece you can copy and paste.

This NYT's article does not support what you claimed. There is an investigation going on about this issue and it is looking at a historical pattern of intelligence employees misinterpreting evidence received from field agents and other sources. This is a long standing problem according to Chuck Hagel. Jake Tapper today also asked if Chuck Hagel was aware of any pressure from President Obama's office to produce altered data. Hagel said no and he would have been in the position to notice it he said.

So you still have no evidence for your allegation about President Obama and you seem too stupid to realize this.

If you want to play with the big boys and girls you need to learn to do proper citations. You also need to learn that your opinion does not count as evidence.

"Now the New York Times is a credible source?"

According to the liberals it is or are you now calling The New York Times faux news?

Now run to a left-wing political attack site and find yourself a delusional opinion piece you can copy and paste.

This NYT's article does not support what you claimed. There is an investigation going on about this issue and it is looking at a historical pattern of intelligence employees misinterpreting evidence received from field agents and other sources. This is a long standing problem according to Chuck Hagel. Jake Tapper today also asked if Chuck Hagel was aware of any pressure from President Obama's office to produce altered data. Hagel said no and he would have been in the position to notice it he said.

So you still have no evidence for your allegation about President Obama and you seem too stupid to realize this.

If you want to play with the big boys and girls you need to learn to do proper citations. You also need to learn that your opinion does not count as evidence.

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You misrepresent what the article actually says.
It reports that the reports by DIA analysis have been manipulated by supervisors to fit Obama’s false narrative about ISIS.

The facts are there son. This has been a problem in the Obama administration for a long time and their corruption has been exposed yet again.

Are you so desperate to try and cover for Obama you have to lie?

"Now the New York Times is a credible source?"

According to the liberals it is or are you now calling The New York Times faux news?

Now run to a left-wing political attack site and find yourself a delusional opinion piece you can copy and paste.

This NYT's article does not support what you claimed. There is an investigation going on about this issue and it is looking at a historical pattern of intelligence employees misinterpreting evidence received from field agents and other sources. This is a long standing problem according to Chuck Hagel. Jake Tapper today also asked if Chuck Hagel was aware of any pressure from President Obama's office to produce altered data. Hagel said no and he would have been in the position to notice it he said.

So you still have no evidence for your allegation about President Obama and you seem too stupid to realize this.

If you want to play with the big boys and girls you need to learn to do proper citations. You also need to learn that your opinion does not count as evidence.

_______________________________________________________________________

You misrepresent what the article actually says.
It reports that the reports by DIA analysis have been manipulated by supervisors to fit Obama’s false narrative about ISIS.

The facts are there son. This has been a problem in the Obama administration for a long time and their corruption has been exposed yet again.

Are you so desperate to try and cover for Obama you have to lie?

Muleman, you can ignore everything that others post, but that doesn't change reality. And if you continue to ignore facts, you just look stupid.

"Now the New York Times is a credible source?"

According to the liberals it is or are you now calling The New York Times faux news?

Now run to a left-wing political attack site and find yourself a delusional opinion piece you can copy and paste.

This NYT's article does not support what you claimed. There is an investigation going on about this issue and it is looking at a historical pattern of intelligence employees misinterpreting evidence received from field agents and other sources. This is a long standing problem according to Chuck Hagel. Jake Tapper today also asked if Chuck Hagel was aware of any pressure from President Obama's office to produce altered data. Hagel said no and he would have been in the position to notice it he said.

So you still have no evidence for your allegation about President Obama and you seem too stupid to realize this.

If you want to play with the big boys and girls you need to learn to do proper citations. You also need to learn that your opinion does not count as evidence.

_______________________________________________________________________

You misrepresent what the article actually says.
It reports that the reports by DIA analysis have been manipulated by supervisors to fit Obama’s false narrative about ISIS.

The facts are there son. This has been a problem in the Obama administration for a long time and their corruption has been exposed yet again.

Are you so desperate to try and cover for Obama you have to lie?

Muleman, you can ignore everything that others post, but that doesn't change reality. And if you continue to ignore facts, you just look stupid.

________________________________________________________________________

Hint son: just because the facts don't line up with your political ideology does not make them wrong.
If what others post is crap I treat it with it due.

Pentagon IG Raises Alarm over Obama Administration Doctoring ISIS data:

Emails show DOD analysts told to 'cut it out' on ISIS warnings; IG probe expands
By Catherine Herridge - Published November 23, 2015 - FoxNews.com

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/11/23/emails-show-dod-analysts-told-to-cut-it-out-on-isis-warnings-ig-probe-expands.html

What will it really take to defeat ISIS?

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.

Those emails, among others, are now in the possession of the Pentagon inspector general. The IG’s probe is expanding into whether intelligence assessments were changed to give a more positive picture of the anti-ISIS campaign.

The former Pentagon official said there were “multiple assessments” from military intelligence and the CIA regarding the “rapid rise” of ISIS in Iraq and North Africa in the year leading up to the group’s territory grab in 2014.

Similar intelligence was included in the President’s Daily Brief, or PDB – the intelligence community’s most authoritative product -- during the same time period. Yet the official, who was part of the White House discussions, said the administration kept "kicking the can down the road." The official said there was no discussion of the military involvement needed to make a difference.

The IG probe started earlier this year amid complaints that information was changed to make ISIS look more degraded than it really was.

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.

Critics say this "activity-based approach" to tracking the effectiveness of strikes does not paint a comprehensive picture of whether ISIS is being degraded and contained.

The New York Times first reported on Sunday that the IG investigation was expanding and adding more investigators, and that the office had taken possession of a trove of documents and emails as part of that probe.

Asked about the report, House intelligence committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said Sunday that his committee and others are involved in the investigation.

“We heard from a lot of whistle-blowers and other informants who have given us information. And not just … related strictly to the latest allegations,” Nunes said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Citing the renewed focus on ISIS after the Paris terror attacks, he added: “So the president, to have a successful strategy, is going to admit that they've got it wrong and they need to relook at a larger strategy that deals with north Africa, the Middle East, all the way over to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and then work closely with our NATO allies with what appears to be a command and control structure that ISIS has created successfully in Europe.”

President Obama, speaking at a press conference in Malaysia over the weekend, said he expects to “get to the bottom” of whether ISIS intelligence reports were altered – and has told his top military officials as much.

“One of the things I insisted on the day I walked into the Oval Office was that I don’t want intelligence shaded by politics. I don’t want it shaded by the desire to tell a feel-good story,” Obama said Sunday. “I believe that the Department of Defense and all those who head up our intelligence agencies understand that, and that I have made it repeatedly clear to all my top national security advisers that I never want them to hold back, even if the intelligence or their opinions about the intelligence, their analysis or interpretations of the data contradict current policy.”

At the same time, he said, “As a consumer of this intelligence, it’s not as if I’ve been receiving wonderfully rosy, glowing portraits of what’s been happening in Iraq and Syria over the last year and a half. … t feels to me like, at my level at least, we’ve had a pretty clear-eyed, sober assessment.”