Pentagon Investigating If Islamic State Intelligence Analysis And Reports Were Altered To Present A More 'Positive View'

A fighter jet aboard the United States aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt in the Arabian Gulf this month. Carrier-based aircraft are conducting a bombing campaign against the Islamic State. Credit Adam Ferguson for The New York Times

New York Times: Inquiry Weighs Whether ISIS Analysis Was Distorted

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.

WNU Editor: The U.S. campaign against the Islamic State is now in it's second year .... and there is very little if any evidence that the U.S. is campaign is succeeding and/or the strategy to defeat the Islamic State is working. So yes .... something is not right.

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