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Former Brigadier General: Obama's Briefer Told CENTCOM Official to Skew Intel on ISIS
PJ Media ^ | AUGUST 15, 2016 | BYDEBRA HEINE

Posted on 08/16/2016 7:46:11 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo

A former brigadier general revealed on Fox News Monday some new information about the White House's role in U.S. Central Command's skewing of intelligence to downplay the threats of ISIS and Al Qaeda.

Last week, a House Republican task force concluded in a 15-page report that U.S. military leaders altered intelligence reports "to paint a rosier picture" of the U.S.-led fight against ISIS than intelligence analysts believed was warranted.

The report blamed “structural and management changes” at the intelligence directorate for the distortions, but stopped short of explaining WHY the changes were made. According to Defense News, "the problems followed the change in Central Command’s leadership from Marine Gen. James Mattis, as CENTCOM commander, to Army Gen. Lloyd Austin."

U.S. Army Brigadier Gen. Anthony Tata (Ret.) filled in some blanks on Fox News Monday afternoon, and if his allegations are true, the scandal reaches all the way to the president's inner circle.

Tata explained that since Obama withdrew troops from Iraq, "there's been chaos all over the Middle East." But because the president campaigned on getting out of Iraq, he didn't want to hear anything that countered his narrative that it was the right thing to do.

When the official narrative contradicted the facts on the ground, members of the intelligence community cried foul and there was a meeting to deal with the issue.

Via Fox News Insider:

Tata revealed that a source verified to him that he was directed by an individual from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, who conducts the president’s daily briefing, to stop producing "products of record" that did not fit the administration's narrative of a defeated Al Qaeda and a non-threatening enemy in ISIS. Tata said that the president’s briefer told this individual to call him on secure line if he had any intelligence that portrayed ISIS in a stronger light than what the president had characterized to the public, which would not leave a paper trail.

He said that this distortion of intelligence on ISIS essentially led to the U.S. ignoring the growing threat and giving the terror group two years to take root.

Tata said that it was "highly irresponsible" for a senior official to downplay the intelligence because "now we have a real, valid national security threat that was borne out of this directive to Central Command." He added that "now there are actually people being reprised against."

"You have good American soldiers, sailors, Marines and civilians that are being isolated and targeted by people that are in the J-2 [CENTCOM’s intelligence directorate]," Tata said.

Asked if there had been people who were denied promotions, Tata indicated that it was worse than that: "I think they've been run out of the service," he answered.

As PJ Media reported in April, two senior intelligence analysts at U.S. Central Command were allegedly forced out of their jobs because of their skeptical reporting on U.S.-backed rebel groups in Syria.

Tata cited for example "one young lady who spent $140,000 on legal bills" to defend herself against "this kind of thing."

"She ultimately won," Tata noted, but her career has been ruined.

As for the White House connection, the general said, "It could have been the president saying, 'Don't tell me this.' Or it could have been the briefer going back after a rough meeting saying, 'Hey look, don't give me anymore of this stuff. I don't want to bring it to the president.'"


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; anthonytata; bhodod; centcom; deceit; generalaustin; generalmattis; hearings; iraq; isis; jamesmattis; lloydaustin; lloydaustiniii; mattis; obama; obamapurges; purges; tata
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1 posted on 08/16/2016 7:46:11 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mr. Mojo

So, it comes down to LIES, LIES and MORE LIES.

DO THE DEMOCRATS EVER TELL THE TRUTH ..?????


2 posted on 08/16/2016 7:49:11 AM PDT by CyberAnt ("Peace Through Strength")
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To: Mr. Mojo

All of this tells us that The Rot has set in.

Americans will lose trust (and thus respect) in both military and intel institutions.


3 posted on 08/16/2016 7:50:32 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: Mr. Mojo

The problem lies in the “leadership” that hands down the orders. The agencies can be cleaned up but only after the top is cleaned up.


4 posted on 08/16/2016 7:53:28 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Mr. Mojo

so, the Benghazi meme was not just a one-off, but was actually a full blown system wide presidential policy.


5 posted on 08/16/2016 7:53:31 AM PDT by stylin19a
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To: Mr. Mojo

And some Republicans still want to turn the reins of government over to Obama’s anointed successor, with a guarantee that this type of deception will continue.


6 posted on 08/16/2016 7:54:55 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Congress should immediately investigate and hold hearings, but they probably won’t. They’re too interested in their own elections.


7 posted on 08/16/2016 7:55:10 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Mr. Mojo

And America yawns.


8 posted on 08/16/2016 7:55:39 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: CyberAnt

No.


9 posted on 08/16/2016 7:57:39 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The raw intelligence should still be there as proof of the cover up.


10 posted on 08/16/2016 7:58:12 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Mr. Mojo

‘...who conducts the president’s daily briefing, to stop ...’

Well, if Barry never came to these then why lie? Anyway, Barry gets his briefings from CNN so what difference does it make. :)


11 posted on 08/16/2016 8:00:58 AM PDT by 556x45
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To: Mr. Mojo

He’s got that mussolini mug down. Him and Reggie should be hung upside down in the public square like benito and his mistress.


12 posted on 08/16/2016 8:02:24 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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So it’s reasonable to conclude that George Soros, appointed by Rothschild and Rockefeller is and has been running the US government.


13 posted on 08/16/2016 8:02:42 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: Sir Napsalot
"All of this tells us that The Rot has set in. Americans will lose trust (and thus respect) in both military and intel institutions."

....and the DOJ and the FBI.

14 posted on 08/16/2016 8:03:24 AM PDT by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Thank God people are finally getting the courage to tell the truth... to stand up to liberal liars and call them what they are...


15 posted on 08/16/2016 8:04:20 AM PDT by GOPJ (Clintons pimp America out to the highest bidder - the press looks away and kisses Hillary's butt.)
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To: Sir Napsalot
The Rot has set in. Americans will lose trust (and thus respect) in both military and intel institutions.

It's intentional.

Liberal elite thugs are doing this to destabilize the population.

16 posted on 08/16/2016 8:06:50 AM PDT by GOPJ (Clintons pimp America out to the highest bidder - the press looks away and kisses Hillary's butt.)
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To: dfwgator

“And America yawns.”

America will applaud its own destruction, just like Europe is doing today.


17 posted on 08/16/2016 8:07:02 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Mr. Mojo
al Qaeda bombed the Pentagon and WTC,
murdering 3000 in one hour, and no one in the
CIA or Pentagon or Joint Chiefs spoke up when they were armed?

How low can these shameless traitors go???



18 posted on 08/16/2016 8:08:05 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Mr. Mojo
The fish rots from the head down. This stinks to high heaven.

This ain't your father's military. It ain't even your military from before January, 2009.

19 posted on 08/16/2016 8:22:13 AM PDT by Gritty (Although the mouth belongs to Hillary Clinton, the voice belongs to George Soros-Viktor Orban)
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To: drypowder

“So it’s reasonable to conclude that George Soros, appointed by Rothschild and Rockefeller is and has been running the US government.”

Yep, the Rothschild-created CFR group who put “Pres. Wilson” in power-—so they could takeover the US economy and bribe everyone in Congress and control all the MSM (all publishing agencies and news offices) and use the US military for their wars (and kill and maim all our patriotic Christian males and destroy Christianity—the only opposition to communism/socialism/slavery) for their conquest and destruction of Nations so they could form their NWO——where they can control every single thing—even culling billions of people with GMOs, and genetically manipulated viruses like Lyme and HIV and Zika, so they can romp around, worship their goat-god and sacrifice babies/human beings as the have their sodomy orgies, and have the World to glorify themselves along with their goat-he/she-god.


20 posted on 08/16/2016 8:25:44 AM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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