Posted on 11/22/2015 7:25:43 AM PST by 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 Pentagonâs inspector general to investigate allegations that significant changes were made to reports from analysts at the United States Central Command, known as Centcom.
âOne of the things I insisted on the day I walked into the Oval Office was that I donât want intelligence shaded by politics. I donât want it shaded by a desire to tell a feel-good story,â he said.
He added: âI 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.â
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 administrationâs 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 âstrike a mortal blowâ against the United States or France.
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âThink of the press as a great keyboard
on which the government can play.â
â Joseph Goebbels
Obama never reads intelligence reports so he shouldn’t comment on them
Maybe it means what it says...
Did someone mention Obama’s intelligence reports? I thought I heard someone say they had doctored them up to make him appear smarter than he really is. Think about it, he is a bumbling idiot without a teleprompter. Just stating the obvious.
Iran needs ISIS he’s not going to do anything but give lip service.
He represents the best Affirmative Action has to offer.
Obama’s fighting spirit reminds me of one of our Founding Fathers.
“I have not yet begun to fight!”
- John Paul Jones
Unfortunately, Barack the First misunderstood the meaning of that quote.
“I will not begin to fight!”
In other words, "the JayVee", " just as he has always said. The article is a marvelous hodge-podge of his self-contradictory statements, while attempting to screen most facts out to let him appear of Churchillian resolve; however, he comes across a more clever version of another WWII leader, Vidkun Quisling.
You Lie!
Millions will die on ObOzO’s watch, but, he can lie to himself, that, none of it was his fault, a true narcissist.
What fight?
The worlds sole remaining superpower just can’t find the firepower to kill a few thousand Saudi Murderscouts. Suuuuure.
Iran and ISIS have nothing in common beside the rounds they fire at each other every day in Iraq.
Iran needs any act they can’t be tied to for destruction that will help them. When did Iran fire on any ISIS?.
Iran led Shia Militias fight ISIS every day north of Bagdad. Every day, they actually try to kill them, unlike our Commander in Chief.
When? no AP story.
Really dude? You need me to tell you world events?
Why is ISIS not in Bagdad? Google that!
ISIS and Iran have the same goal aka pals.
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