War's first casualty? http://english.alarabiya.net/en/New...ilitary-manipulated-intel-in-ISIS-fight-.html
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016...11reuters-mideast-crisis-usa-report.html?_r=0
US military leaders painted an overly optimistic picture of American efforts to fight the ISIS in Iraq and Syria, a damning government report released Thursday found.
The interim report stems from a congressional task force investigating whistleblower allegations that intel bosses cherry-picked information that soft-pedaled the risk of ISIS while overstating US efforts to train local forces to fight the jihadists.
CENTCOM officials must be held to account if they pressured analysts to distort or suppress information in the anti-ISIS fight, said Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte, who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
“A successful strategy to defeat the scourge of radical Islamist terrorism must be based on facts - not rosy assessments manipulated to support a political narrative,” she said in a statement.
(When someone asked the CIA about how wrong they had been about the number of ICBMs that the Soviets had, the reply was all information is political. Fact, fiction, dreams, wishes, hopes, estimates, guesses, etc etc all mixed together to support a particular view)
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016...11reuters-mideast-crisis-usa-report.html?_r=0
US military leaders painted an overly optimistic picture of American efforts to fight the ISIS in Iraq and Syria, a damning government report released Thursday found.
The interim report stems from a congressional task force investigating whistleblower allegations that intel bosses cherry-picked information that soft-pedaled the risk of ISIS while overstating US efforts to train local forces to fight the jihadists.
CENTCOM officials must be held to account if they pressured analysts to distort or suppress information in the anti-ISIS fight, said Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte, who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
“A successful strategy to defeat the scourge of radical Islamist terrorism must be based on facts - not rosy assessments manipulated to support a political narrative,” she said in a statement.
(When someone asked the CIA about how wrong they had been about the number of ICBMs that the Soviets had, the reply was all information is political. Fact, fiction, dreams, wishes, hopes, estimates, guesses, etc etc all mixed together to support a particular view)
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