21st Century Wire says…

Inter-agency infighting can have huge effects on reaching and implementing tangible solutions.

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An investigation is underway into U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) after a civilian analyst from the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) accused them of distorting and reworking conclusions regarding their bombing campaign against ISIS.

The distorted analysis was prepared for government officials and even President Obama.

The investigation is reported by the New York Times as being an ‘unusual move’, beyond everyday intelligence disputes.


DIA Headquarters. (Photo Credit: DIA)

Dissenting opinions are encouraged among intelligence agencies and must be acknowledged in reports, but specific rules state that information ‘must not be distorted’ by specific departmental agendas and ideas.

Officials with access to classified documents have said the campaign against ISIS is doing very little to weaken to the group. All it seems to be doing is putting a lot of money into the pockets of the Military Industrial Complex.


Unified combatant commands. (Photo Credit: Lencer)

Saying one thing while doing another may as well be official policy at this point. Failing to weaken ISIS will only strengthen the case for a ground invasion, and then the ball will really be in CENTCOM’s court.

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Inquiry Weighs Whether ISIS Analysis Was Distorted

New York Times

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s inspector general is investigating allegations that military officials have skewed intelligence assessments about the United States-led campaign in Iraq against the Islamic State to provide a more optimistic account of progress, according to several officials familiar with the inquiry.

The investigation began after at least one civilian Defense Intelligence Agency analyst told the authorities that he had evidence that officials at United States Central Command — the military headquarters overseeing the American bombing campaign and other efforts against the Islamic State — were improperly reworking the conclusions of intelligence assessments prepared for policy makers, including President Obama, the government officials said.

Fuller details of the claims were not available, including when the assessments were said to have been altered and who at Central Command, or Centcom, the analyst said was responsible. The officials, speaking only on the condition of anonymity about classified matters, said that the recently opened investigation focused on whether military officials had changed the conclusions of draft intelligence assessments during a review process and then passed them on…

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