Obama Says He Won’t Relent in Fight Against ISIS Amid Questions About Intelligence Reports

The New York Times ^ | November 22, 2015 | MICHAEL D. SHEAR

[Hojczyk]

Speaking at a news conference before leaving Malaysia to return home at the end of a 10-day overseas trip, Mr. Obama said he expected the Pentagon’s inspector general to investigate allegations that significant changes were made to reports from analysts at the United States Central Command, known as Centcom.

“One of the things I insisted on the day I walked into the Oval Office was that I don’t want intelligence shaded by politics. I don’t want it shaded by a desire to tell a feel-good story,” he said.

He added: “I have made it repeatedly clear to all my top national security advisers that I never want them to hold back, even if the intelligence, or their opinions about the intelligence, their analysis or interpretations of the data, contradict current policy.”

The investigators, as detailed in The Times report, are examining years of intelligence reports by Centcom and comparing them with reports about the same events produced by the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency and others.

Some assessments of the administration’s campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq, for example, have focused on the deep political and religious divides in that country that would be difficult to bridge. Meanwhile, the official picture from Centcom was generally more upbeat, The Times reported.

He repeatedly described the group as little more than thugs with guns who have little or no ability to “strike a mortal blow” against the United States or France.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

God, I hate the Times.

[Eddie01]

Obama couldn’t not fight any harder. /double negative

[onedoug]

Pathological liars, all.

[rktman]

Uh, I heard that they were contained. Did someone leave the barn door open again?

[God luvs America]

Fox reported this back in September and it was ignored http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/10/dozens-intelligence-analysts-reportedly-claim-reports-on-isis-were-altered.html

[Boonie]

Relent???? I thought you had to START before you could RELENT??????????

[Chode]

Obama Says He Wont Relent in Fight Against ISIS Amid Questions About ---Intelligence-- Reports of His Intelligence

[Grampa Dave]

We have Isis under control and contained.

[Hoodat]

Relent from what? Playing golf? Watching TV?

[Qiviut]

Oh 'don't hold back', but that doesn't mean Omuslim is going to read the report if it's a group with whom he's sympatico:

Attkisson: Obama Won't Read Intelligence on Groups He Doesn't Consider Terrorists

[rktman]

Well, maybe he’ll “re-double” his efforts. Which to me means there was no effort in the first place. Or does it mean 4X as much. Lets see, if you double something that would be 2X so RE-double has to be 4X. Or something. I’m glad he’s been relentless on this, I feel much safer now.

[EverRight]

Dropping more flyers?

[Sister_T]

Thank you!

[ilovesarah2012]

Obama is a lying POS. His departure can’t come soon enough.

[TomGuy]

Even the media sycophants are having a difficult time defending Obama’s lead-from-behind foreign policy.

[Paladin2]

Hussein bitterly clings to continuing to provide ISIS with American military hardware and to the tenets of the book of the sacred goat humper.

[This I Wonder32460]

A sentence with Obama and the word intelligence in it does not compute. lol

[Colonel_Flagg]

Yeah, he won’t relent. He’ll work on his short game until victory is won.

[blackdog]

Wordsmithing right out of Joseph Goebbels playbook.

“It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.”

― Joseph Goebbels