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Whistleblowers accuse US military of cooking intel to exaggerate success against the Islamic State and Taliban

Nov 22, 2015 9:32 am By Robert Spencer

We have seen accusations of this kind before. Given the Obama Administration’s thorough politicization of so much of government that was not politicized before, it is not remotely implausible.

Pentagon

“US Military May Have ‘Cooked’ ISIL Intel, Exaggerating Own Success,” Sputnik News, November 22, 2015:

Whistleblowers accused the US military of manipulating intelligence data on its operations against ISIL and the Taliban, prompting an investigation regarding the assessments.

The US military may have manipulated intelligence reports to create a more positive picture of its campaigns in Afghanistan, as well as against ISIL, according to recent reports.

Many of the concerns appear to be coming from intelligence officials inside the Defense Department, including Gregory Hooker, who resigned after blowing the whistle on the reports. The apparent manipulation has drawn parallels to the 2003 Iraq War, in which both intelligence and press reports were often manipulated or falsified to justify the US invasion.

“A lot of the analysts at Centcom feel the high command has been sugarcoating their assessments,” former senior intelligence official Gregory Hooker told Foreign Policy.

Many of the documents investigated are classified and some are said to have been destroyed before being forwarded to investigators. According to Hooker, the manipulations may have been made to such an extent that they even crossed a customary boundary between the military and intelligence agencies.

The cited manipulations included labeling Iraqi army retreats as “redeployments,” according to the New York Times. The Iraqi army suffered considerable blows in 2014, when it lost Mosul, the country’s third-biggest city, in just six days.

Rebelling analysts said that the military assessments glossed over important factors in ISIL’s rise, such as political and religious divisions in Iraqi society.

Afghanistan ‘Success’ Questioned

One of the probes launched focuses on the manipulation of US military successes in Afghanistan. Although the US military has maintained that its campaign has been successful, the Taliban has managed to launch major offensives in recent months, including the takeover of the regional capital of Kunduz.

According to a former US military intelligence chief on Afghanistan, the military manipulated reports to “sugarcoat” conclusions regarding the situation.

“If you have an assessment that undermines the commander’s objectives, that’s not going to go well for that [Joint Staff intelligence director],” the analyst told FP….

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  1. Jeremiah says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 9:43 am

    Obama has been working behind our backs. We cannot risk it any longer. Don’t wait for him. He is betraying the nation. We need to act now.

    We can prevent further attacks by raiding mosques, jailing Imams and identifying those who teach the Koran. Then we don’t need to respond, we don’t need to fight it and we don’t need to defeat it. There is no reason for people to continue to live in fear except for Political Correctness. There is no need to fight all muslims, only those who object to the closure of mosques. There is no need to kill on a large scale, only those who are willing to defend Islam. It is Islam and its teaching which is our enemy! All this talk about trying to find terrorists is nonsense. All this fear is misplaced. Only Political Correctness can kill us. No need to “flag” anybody on a terror watch list. Bring them all in for questioning. Just close the mosques! The mosques contain the terror entire network that we are looking for. No terror network exists outside the mosques, so why are we avoiding mosques?

    We need to act now!

    • Don McKellar says

      Nov 22, 2015 at 11:25 am

      Well, you certainly have a lot of your points right on target and no sane person can argue against most of them. However, the first thing you need to do to accomplish the elimination of mosques is to have Islam recognized as not being a religion at all but rather a political philosophy/entity bent on the overthrow of the American government. Because that’s what it is. It openly declares in its literature that sharia law supersedes any other laws or government and that all other religions must be actively fought against and subdued. It is completely at odds with any modern advanced country’s constitution and laws! Once Islam is decommissioned as a conventional religion (which it is not), the rest of your suggestions will follow as a matter of course.

      • VRWC member77 says

        Nov 22, 2015 at 12:03 pm

        Very well said, Don. And the most immediate step — however small, at the moment — Americans can do, is take advantage of the family gatherings that will occur this coming Thursday.

        Bring copies of the Explanatory Memorandum to the Turkey Dinner gathering. Point specifically to page 7 of 8 regarding the “destruction of the non-believers house from with-in.”

        Bring a number of printed pdf copies explaining “Liberty vs Sharia”

        https://civilusdefendus.wordpress.com/2012/10/07/liberty-is-better/

        The topic doesn’t have to consume all of the time during the gathering. Some may think it not appropriate to bring up a such a disturbing topic. I have to say at this point, I personally don’t care. I’m prepared to have some people annoyed or peeved at my mentioning certain things. We’re not living in a settled society at the moment and the hour is getting late to confront the situation. This is just one person’s view and suggestion.

        • Michael Copeland says

          Nov 22, 2015 at 12:34 pm

          “No stronger retrograde force exists in the world”
          Winston Churchill
          Print your own Churchill on Islam wallet cards:
          http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/news-libertygb/6066-churchill-on-islam-wallet-cards

  2. ? says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 10:40 am

    The most powerful country this side if earth and these people keep us safe?

    This is the reaping 666

  3. Christianblood says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 10:43 am

    America and the West alongside their islamic allies such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar and others pretend they are, on the one hand fighting and bombing ISIS and provide them huge amounts of money, arms, men and allow them to ways sell their oil loot through Turkey on the other. This is the biggest hypocrisy the world has even seen and it will come back and bite America and the West and rest of us very hard.

    • Christianblood says

      Nov 22, 2015 at 10:48 am

      And I must add that they only way to defeat ISIS and the dozens of other islamic jihadist groups there in Syria is to side with the Syrian Army which is the only army that can defeat all the barbaric islamic jihadists in Syria, including ISIS.

  4. Hammer31 says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 10:53 am

    This has been a thing for a while. I served in the intel community during the Clinton administration and saw this happen several times. Intel would stay accurate right until it hit the upper levels of an organization (read that as political appointees) and then take a pretty hard jaunt into la-la land. It is the greatest reason I left the military after my second hitch. Was going to make it a career but between that and other things I saw there, I KNEW we were being commanded by idiots with no wish to see the world except how they THINK it should be.

    Friends of mine that stayed in (most are still in intel but civilians now) say it is much worse under Obama. The piece by Sharyl Attkisson has confirmed what I have heard from my friends. The Obama white house does not want to see actual intel, they want to see intel that reflects their view on how the world SHOULD be. That is a scary thing as they are making decisions that have long reaching effects on a paper by some academic (or activist!) and not the actual facts on the ground..

  5. guide inside says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 10:54 am

    I agree. We need to pray that it happens quickly before he declares martial law! If you listen to his former pastor you come to the conclusion that the Pres is doing all this as his revenge for slavery!

    • Christianblood says

      Nov 22, 2015 at 11:12 am

      Obama is not good but the confusion of US policies in this respect go further and deeper than Obama. The same policies existed long before Obama came to the White House and they will very likely continue long after he is gone. Remember the US-led bombing campaign against Serbia and creating of two islamic states in the Balkans?
      That happened long before Obama was elected president.

    • Don McKellar says

      Nov 22, 2015 at 11:16 am

      You mean his former pastor from 6 or 7 years ago? The pastor of the church that Obama virtually never went to and only used as a cover for his image? You mean the pastor who ended up being a disaster and embarrassment for Obama because he truly had no idea of what the pastor was saying in his sermons — because Obama was virtually never there? That pastor? Why would anybody listen to that nut when it comes to Obama? Your post doesn’t make any sense.

      • guide inside says

        Nov 23, 2015 at 10:19 am

        I was posting about his Pastor in Chicago many years ago who went on racist tirades almost every Sunday. Jeremiah Wrights rants are on you tube if you want a review. P.S. I think you knew this.

  6. Angemon says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 2:32 pm

    Raise your hands if you’re surprised. Anyone? No one? Thought so.

  7. BlueRaven says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 4:10 pm

    Islam is Imocricy – completely driven by the f-Imams based on their reasoning in quwran.

  8. Jay Boo says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 6:43 pm

    Obama could have EASILY taken out their cash pipeline to oil months ago and drastically weakened ISIS but Obama is more concerned about Turkey’s goals against Assad.

    75 % of targets pilots have been told (To Stand Down)

    • Baucent says

      Nov 23, 2015 at 6:25 am

      Or the hundreds of oil tankers that the Russians have only now started hitting. Why weren’t they taken out a year ago? All looks like a half hearted excuse for a strategy coming from Obama.

  9. Larry A. Singleton says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 8:24 pm

    Afghanistan ‘Success’ Questioned

    One of the probes launched focuses on the manipulation of US military successes in Afghanistan. Although the US military has maintained that its campaign has been successful, the Taliban has managed to launch major offensives in recent months, including the takeover of the regional capital of Kunduz.

    RULES OF ENGAGEMENT 11-20-15

    Sayonara Shari’a: Japanese Lessons, Lost? By Andrew Bostom.

    “Gifts from Heaven”: The Meaning of the American Victory over Japan, 1945 by John David Lewis | Foreign Policy & Defense, History
    https://www.theobjectivestandard.com/issues/2007-winter/american-victory-over-japan-1945/
    Read this article for parallels on Afghanistan and Iraq and with how we’re fighting terrorism today. We are totally failing when it comes to identifying the enemy, stating our objectives and destroying our enemies. We should do with Islam the same as we did with the other state religion in Japan; Shinto. This was a policy of NO negotiation. Our policy was “surrender or die”. There status as a “defeated enemy and the democratic reforms were hammered into the heads of every man, woman and child in Japan.

    Poster on Japan’s Policies regarding Islam and Muslims (Facebook)
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=190665434602056&set=gm.1515906135391074&type=3

    The Glazov Gang: How “Rules of Engagement” Get U.S. Soldiers Killed 11-16-15
    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/11/the-glazov-gang-how-rules-of-engagement-get-u-s-soldiers-killed

    US Military Pilots Get Fed Up, Say Exactly What Obama Didn’t Want Them To
    http://www.westernjournalism.com/us-military-pilots-get-fed-up-boldly-say-exactly-what-obama-didnt-want-them-to/
    “There were times I had groups of ISIS fighters in my sights, but couldn’t get clearance to engage,” a Navy F-18 pilot tells Fox News in a report published Thursday. “They probably killed innocent people and spread evil because of my inability to kill them. It was frustrating.”

    Shades of Vietnam: Spike in U.S. troop deaths tied to stricter rules of engagement by Rowan Scarborough 12-5-13 (The Washington Times)
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/dec/5/increase-in-battlefield-deaths-linked-to-new-rules/?page=all

    Rules of Engagement getting Our soldiers killed at alarming rate by Doug Book 10-18-12 (Western Journalism)
    http://www.westernjournalism.com/rules-of-engagement-getting-our-soldiers-killed-at-alarming-rate/
    “Tragically, the unwillingness of today’s American leaders to decisively win a war is responsible for the needless—indeed, criminally callous and cynically disregarded—death of countless American soldiers.”

    The rules murdering our troops by Ralph Peters 9-24-09 (New York Post)
    http://nypost.com/2009/09/24/the-rules-murdering-our-troops/
    “Mission-focused, but morally oblivious, Gen. Stan McChrystal conformed to the Obama Way of War by imposing rules of engagement that could have been concocted by Code Pink…The next time you read about the death of a soldier or Marine in Afghanistan, don’t just blame the Taliban. Blame the generals and politicians who sent them to war, then took away their weapons”

    MORALS… We are dealing with Islamist who do not practice the same morals or culture of the USA. So a decorated Green Beret will be kicked out of the US Army … Watch this video!
    https://www.facebook.com/AmericansAgainstMuslimsakeOver/videos/941209502580778/

    Truth in Media: Origin of ISIS (Hint: The U.S. Government) (You Tube)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMlck4IZXsk

    The Anti-Refugee Immigration Video That is Going VIRAL Around The GLOBE!
    https://www.facebook.com/FreedomDailyNews/videos/1023438524384931/

    SHAMEFUL: Obama claims we don’t have ‘religious test’ for refugees, but LOOK what we found…by Michelle Jesse 11-17-15
    http://www.allenbwest.com/2015/11/shameful-obama-claims-we-dont-have-religious-test-for-refugees-but-look-what-we-found/

    Muslim Countries Refuse to Take a Single Syrian Refugee, Cite Risks of Exposure to Terrorism by Donna Rachel Edmunds 9-5-15
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/09/05/gulf-states-refuse-to-take-a-single-syrian-refugee-say-doing-so-exposes-them-to-risk-of-terrorism/
    Although the oil rich countries have handed over aid money, Britain has donated more than Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar combined.

    4-Star Admiral Slams Obama: Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrated All Of Our National Security Agencies (You Tube and Family Security Matters)
    http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/muslim-brotherhood-has-penetrated-all-of-obamas-national-security-agencies?f=must_reads
    Muslim Brotherhood ties to the US government. Informative video by Tom Trento of the United West. Trento is dedicated to exposing the radical agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood–We are pulling back the veil to reveal how close to the Great Tribulation we currently are! We must recognize the signs of the Times!

    Former CIA Agent Says Obama is Working With The Muslim Brotherhood Against America by Melissa Davis 11-14-15
    http://usherald.com/former-cia-agent-says-obama-working-muslim-brotherhood-america/
    Clare Lopez, a former agent with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has gone on the record about the Islamic influence of some members of the Obama administration saying the U.S. has now “switched sides.” She says America now supports the enemy in the war on terrorism, rather than devoting itself to stopping the spread of Sharia law, the stated goal of radical Islamic forces.

    Raymond Ibrahim: D.C. Refuses to Arm Persecuted Christians Fighting ISIS by Raymond Ibrahim 11-18-15
    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/11/raymond-ibrahim-d-c-refuses-to-arm-persecuted-christians-fighting-isis
    In recent months, Mideast Christians have been forming militias to fight the Islamic State (IS) and other jihadi groups in both Iraq and Syria—even as the Obama administration, which arms the “opposition,” refuses to arm them.

    Exposing Obama’s Muslim Operatives in His Administration
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW3vniK5cx4

    Ten Part “Muslim Brotherhood in America” by Frank Gaffney (Center for Security Policy)
    http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/the-muslim-brotherhood-in-america/

    A Troubling Influence: An Islamic 5th Column Penetrates the White House by Frank Gaffney Jr. With an Introduction: Why We are Publishing this Article by David Horowitz (Frontpage Magazine)
    http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=15084

    The Islamist-and Their Enablers- Assault on the Right: The Case Against Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan (Introduction and pdf) (Center for Security Policy)
    http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2014/02/11/the-islamists-and-their-enablers-assault-on-the-right-the-case-against-grover-norquist-and-suhail-khan-2/

    A Disturbing Event: the American Conservative Union Embraces an Islamist by Raymond Ibrahim (Frontpage Magazine)
    http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/raymond-ibrahim/a-disturbing-event-the-american-conservative-union-embraces-an-islamist/

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