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.
Glenn Reynolds: SO THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION DID ALL THE STUFF THEY ACCUSED BUSH OF DOING. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS, BUSH WON THE WAR, AND THEY LOST IT.
Back when slick willie was still wrecking everything some liberal wanted to send our troops to South America to protest the rainforests and that was before we found out the rainforests are doing fine
“Glenn Reynolds: SO THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION DID ALL THE STUFF THEY ACCUSED BUSH OF DOING. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS, BUSH WON THE WAR, AND THEY LOST IT.”
~Glenn Reynolds
Ya know, I like Glenn Reynolds. And I like a lot of the people here that I disagree with too.
I’ll agree with Glenn, that “W” won the war.(sort of, maybe not)
What “W” did was he pacified the target area(war as he defined it) and appeared to have regained control.
GWB had the “War on Terror”TM, “in control” …for a time.
The problem was… the WAR was Islam against us Infidels, Western Civilization, not against Terror.
GWB sowed the seeds of the failure to make us feel secure by:
1) Misnaming the enemy by using a VAGUE generality
2) Being too SPECIFIC as to the metric that victory would be measured by and defined(wrongly)
are we safe yet?
No. we aren’t safe as long as the enemy poses a continuous imminent threat.
Our government could have ended the threat nearly 15 years ago.
Now we are war weary/economically depressed and they don’t even pretend anymore to snow the people who still pay attention.
Mostly, the people you pass in the streets/halls these days don’t, …pay attention.
They feel powerless so that they tune out.
Obama is LBJ reincarnate on this issue…
Don’t worry about the wars in the Middle East.
Thanks to President Obama’s amazing* management of the wars in Iraq, Syria, and Libya, the refugees, infiltrating terrorists, and the wars will soon come to Europe, Canada, and the United States.
*amazingly incompetent
Incompetent or by design? Europe must pay for its colonialist past after all.
(Not a muzzie. Nooooooooooooo.)
So they’ll claim Obamba achieved world peace and scribble his face over Washington’s on Mount Rushmore.
This is America “Changed”, this is the new nation the majority of American “hoped” and then voted for.
Not to be a stickler…but it is the “Daily Beast” as opposed to the “Daily Caller”
we must not forget, Obumbles was the one who casted all the votes that won him the presidency.
Ooz, actually the “war” is an internal conflict that comes from the fact the democracy, coupled with the success of the rise of the middle class, aided by the technological advances, will destroy it’s self just like every other successful culture
This is what caused the War with Islam:
https://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&type=C214US662D20141109&p=world+trade+center+falling
I still see some of my fellow employees falling from the 82nd floor,
So piss on the Islamism bastards.
I hope Israel Nukes the shit out of them.
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voting for the Iran Deal on 9/11 is a f^cking filthy disgrace.
And if they ever put Obama’s face on a mountain,
I will put my explosive ordnance training to good use…….
No matter who is in the white house, the MIC agenda goes forward – they own the president and no one get into the oval office unless they are vetted by that oligarchy/control structure – in that regard, we see Trump flip flop on his border policy by saying he will allow Syrian migration
If it is any comfort, Obama will be gone in 497 days. Given the speed at which the US government bureaucracy operates, his administration is rapidly running out of time to do much more.
The durability of any new “legacy” he commits to these days will depend entirely on his successor in the White House. And in the ego-based arena of US presidential politics, there’s rarely any personal advantage for an incumbent to tout a predecessor.
“If it is any comfort, Obama will be gone in 497 days. ”
Unless there is a “crisis” then the patriot act kicks in and creates a monarchy of the oval office.
My gawd yes.
Just one day after I say that, once, I hear a politician speak the tape that runs in my head all my waking hours, Trump FLIP-FLOPS on the invadergees: the single most important bedrock issue upon which everything else depends.
One day (or same day I guess)!
Hear this: Trump will change nothing material. He won’t be able to, even if he sincerely wants to, which is debatable. He used the phrase “we have to” accept Syrian invadergees.
And for gawd’s sake can we finally drop this utterly bogus notion that Bush won the war.
He did no such thing and everything we see happening now is a direct result of the Iraq invasion.
Given the vast majority of them are males over 20, invadergees is quite descriptive (accurate). It’s been said before, what culture abandons their women and children to save their own scummy rears.
Obama will be gone in 497 days.
Interesting that fevered talk about Obama conspiring to remain in the Oval Office mirrors exactly the moonbat drivel that used to circulate about George W engineering a “coup” and suspending the US Constitution. Yet, his two terms completed and Bush is gone. So it will be for Obama.
At each extreme end of the political spectrum, right and left seem to achieve almost identical levels of conspiratorial insanity.
Greg >
“…..what culture abandons their women and children to save their own scummy rears.”
Even the Mexicans have the sense to bring an anchor family with them.
True story – I worked with an Arab Muslim in Algeria many years ago who was accepted for some technical training in Aberdeen Scotland, on a very hard to obtain visa. His personal plan for the 3 weeks he was in Scotland was to get a bride and bring her back to Algeria. When pressed for what his bride would look like he described a very leggy Swedish blond type, even showing me photographs of the “Thrift Store Zoot Suite” he was going to woo her with. Needless to say he returned (a miracle in itself, several Arab trainees I knew didn’t) empty handed and extremely disappointed.
The moral of the story, is that westerners as a whole, especially the Liberal Moonbats, have NO IDEA what culture really is. These people may as well be from the moon for as much cultural similarities they have in common. Culture is not a lifestyle or choice issue, it’s a deeply ingrained abstract worldview that is incompatible with ours and as immovable as DNA in most cultures.
“He did no such thing and everything we see happening now is a direct result of the Iraq invasion.”
…or maybe it was Saddam Hussein’s ruination of his own country…
…or the Sykes-Picot agreement…
…or Ottoman misrule…
…or Tamerlane’s invasion…
…or the Mongols…
…or the Arab Islamic conquest…
…or the Romans…
Heck, is there a way we can blame Harper too? After all, there’s an election on.
Alfred Jodl: Steiner konnte nicht genügend Kräfte für einen Angriff massieren. Der Angriff Steiner ist nicht erfolgt.
The Obama-Nation™ can always send in some imaginary divisions…
Inventing military reports based on ‘Hope & Change’ has a long tradition…AMONG THE DEFEATED!
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group ‘True North’
WE don’t have an Intelligence Agency, or a CIA, Of FBI or IRS or ICE, or Justice……It is all B.S Hollywood screen sets that three guys change on Cue
BTW: The EU/UN are getting their just deserts, over run with lost souls all wanting the promised land. It was the EU/UN that pushed the Arab Spring that resulted in A fall Festival of immigration.. NO Borders worked perfectly…Nice to see Greece smuggling is paying off their debt…. UN Marxism is the only answer for all of the EU..
Slap Shot >
“……The EU/UN are getting their just deserts…..”
Agree with all but this bit – to a degree.
The street Moonbats are getting what they deserve, the few remaining conservatives in Europe are finding what a “Liberal” Hell on Earth is really all about, BUT the EU/UN Elitists and their winged monkey bureaucrats are getting exactly what they were trying to achieve. Order out of Chaos, and they’re creating the chaos.
Incompetent or deliberate?
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