50 Spies Say ISIS Intelligence Was Cooked

By Published on September 10, 2015

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.

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