Spy Games: 50 Intelligence Analysts Say Their Reports Were Altered

Posted by Tina

Things are popping in the Pentagon…this could get ugly…

IBD:

In an unprecedented revolt, 50 military intelligence analysts are charging high-ranking officials with cooking the books on Islamic State’s growth and strength for political reasons. It’s high time for house-cleaning.

Fifty intelligence analysts whose job is to honestly assess what’s going on in the Middle East have charged their reports about Islamic State’s rise were systematically altered by senior officials to the opposite of what they meant: “Happy talk” about the terror group being “on the run” and merely a “JV” version of al-Qaida, according to a report in the Daily Beast.

In a letter to the Pentagon Inspector General’s Office, the analysts said their reports were corrupted to further the White House’s narrative that the Middle East was little more than George Bush’s war, and President Obama’s premature pullout from Iraq and Afghanistan amounted to “victories.”

It wasn’t, and they didn’t. The shambles of the Middle East and the surprise rise of Islamic State show that something different was going on, and now we know it had a name: Obama’s Domestic Political Priorities.

It’s an outrage, given that the U.S. spends $17.4 billion on its military intelligence program and $58.7 billion on its entire “black budget” of secret operations. The reason these exist is to find the truth and act on it.

The analysts’ anger is wholly understandable.

It’s undoubtedly made worse by the fact that the information used was often obtained at great personal risk by spies in the field — for nothing.

If the truth doesn’t matter anymore, there is little purpose for these operations — and, worse, justification for the likes of National Security Agency contractor Ed Snowden to publicly spill secrets.

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