Pentagon Expands Inquiry Into Intelligence on ISIS Surge

The New York Times ^ | November 22, 2015 | MATT APUZZO, MARK MAZZETTI and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT

[Hojczyk]

When Islamic State fighters overran a string of Iraqi cities last year, analysts at United States Central Command wrote classified assessments for military intelligence officials and policy makers that documented the humiliating retreat of the Iraqi Army. But before the assessments were final, former intelligence officials said, the analysts’ superiors made significant changes.

In the revised documents, the Iraqi Army had not retreated at all. The soldiers had simply “redeployed.”

Such changes are at the heart of an expanding internal Pentagon investigation of Centcom, as Central Command is known, where analysts say that supervisors revised conclusions to mask some of the American military’s failures in training Iraqi troops and beating back the Islamic State. The analysts say supervisors were particularly eager to paint a more optimistic picture of America’s role in the conflict than was warranted.

In recent weeks, the Pentagon inspector general seized a large trove of emails and documents from military servers as it examines the claims, and has added more investigators to the inquiry.

[Cowboy Bob]

Bet the culprits are all Obama appointees.

[God luvs America]

Fox reported this more than two months ago and it was dismissed

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/10/dozens-intelligence-analysts-reportedly-claim-reports-on-isis-were-altered.html

[Boonie]

“Redeployed”...........*ROFLMAO*

[blueunicorn6]

We are a nation governed by liars, thieves and killers whose sole goal is to acquire wealth.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

The Caliph’s orders must be followed.

[csn vinnie]

When an army gets its backside kicked, we all know what “redeployed” means.

[centurion316]

Bet the culprits are all Obama appointees.

They are directing the organized criminal activity, no doubt. But, criminal activity spreads like a pestilence epidemic. Those who decide that lying and cheating is encouraged and that they can do it to advance their own personal ambitions will jump on the bandwagon. A government that lies about the big things that they do will soon have a government that lies about everything. This could completely destroy the military and very quickly.