National intelligence chief knew that ISIS assessments were skewed to look overly optimistic for the administration: Report
by Jon E. Dougherty
(NationalSecurity.news)
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence was made aware that
assessments of military action against the Islamic State were
manipulated, making them appear overly optimistic so the Obama
administration would look better, The Daily Beast reported exclusively this week.
Those complaints, which came from analysts at U.S. Central Command in
2015, are in addition to other allegations by analysts that had been
made to the Defense Department’s inspector general, who is currently
looking into “whether there was any falsification, distortion, delay,
suppression, or improper modification of intelligence information” by
senior officials with CENTCOM.
The second set of allegations, not previously reported, were made as
well to the ODNI, indicating that officials in charge of managing U.S.
intelligence activities and reporting were also aware that there may
have been accuracy issues regarding intelligence on ISIS, some of which
went all the way to President Obama.
