Obama’s Brass Pressured Us to Downplay ISIS Threat

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Remember way back when the Bush Administration was accused of “politicizing the intelligence”? Of downplaying bad news out of Iraq? Well….

 

U.S. intelligence analysts keep saying that the American-led campaign against ISIS isn’t going so well. Their bosses keep telling them to think again about those conclusions.
Senior military and intelligence officials have inappropriately pressured U.S. terrorism analysts to alter their assessments about the strength of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, three sources familiar with the matter told The Daily Beast. Analysts have been pushed to portray the group as weaker than the analysts believe it actually is, according to these sources, and to paint an overly rosy picture about how well the U.S.-led effort to defeat the group is going.

Reports that have been deemed too pessimistic about the efficacy of the American-led campaign, or that have questioned whether a U.S.-trained Iraqi military can ultimately defeat ISIS, have been sent back down through the chain of command or haven’t been shared with senior policymakers, several analysts alleged.

In other instances, authors of such reports said they understood that their conclusions should fall within a certain spectrum. As a result, they self-censored their own views, they said, because they felt pressure to not reach conclusions far outside what those above them apparently believed.

“The phrase I use is the politicization of the intelligence community,” retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told The Daily Beast when describing what he sees as a concerted push in government over the past several months to find information that tells a preferred story about efforts to defeat ISIS and other extremist groups, including al Qaeda. “That’s here. And it’s dangerous,” Flynn said.

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“Whether al Qaeda was destroyed or no longer a factor—we were told to cease and desist that kind of analysis” following the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011, retired Army Colonel Derek Harvey, a former senior intelligence official at DIA, told The Daily Beast.

“Al Qaeda core was declared all but dead by the Obama administration,” Harvey said. But based on material found in documents that U.S. forces retrieved from bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan, “the organization in our view was more diverse and stronger in many ways than it had ever been before, despite al Qaeda core being hit hard.”

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All one has to do is look at where ISIS is operating now compared to where it was when Obama was first made aware of the threat and it’s quite obvious the campaign to “defeat” them is falling short. Ditto for AQ.

The U.S. intelligence analysts are clueless of ISIS and the other terrorist units. Just look at 9/11. Recall that until the recently, the cia , was a good old boy’s club. The James Bond image no longer exists.. Congressional recommendations have called for the restructuring off all agencies, especially the cia and fbi, all talk and no change. Currently none of the intelligence agencies can talk the talk or walk the walk.
Удачи Америка.

This dovetails perfectly with Obama’s What we know is that the number of people who die from gun-related incidents around this country dwarfs any deaths that happen through terrorism.
As long as we don’t know how many die from terrorism it SEEMS true.
But this is the truth:

Weekly Jihad Report
Aug 15 – Aug 21
Jihad Attacks:
49
Allah Akbars*:
6
Dead Bodies:
401
Critically Injured:
491
*Suicide Attacks

And here’s the monthly report:

Jihad Report
July, 2015
Jihad Attacks:
292
Countries:
26
Allah Akbars:
64
Dead Bodies:
2663
Critically Injured:
3431

Apples to apples, folks.
Obama is a liar.
Is he all-of-a-sudden pretending he only cares about America lives?
That’d be a first!

If only he still had Susan Rice available to go on talk shows and tell how we are kicking ISIS’ ass. Just like Benghazi and the video.

Until Obama can get Iran, al Qaeda, the Taliban and ISIS to believe his lies we still have a global war on terror on our hands.