Posted on 09/12/2015 11:51:07 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Obama’s intelligence chief James Clapper is said to be in frequent and unusual contact with a military intelligence officer at the center of a growing scandal over rosy portrayals of the war against ISIS. National intelligence director Clapper is said to talk nearly every day with head of US Central Command’s intelligence wing, Army Major General Steven Grove – “which is highly, highly unusual”, says a former intelligence official.
Grove is implicated in a Pentagon inquiry into manipulated war intelligence.
Clapper, far senior to Grove, is said to tell Grove how the war looks from his vantage point, and question Grove about Central Command’s assessments. Such a situation could place inherent pressure on a subordinate.
In 2013 Clapper apologized to the US Senate for publicly misleading Congress on the scope of domestic surveillance.
“He can be manipulative,” a former senior defense official said. For Clapper as a senior US intelligence officer with access to assessments across the 16 US intelligence agencies to query Grove, the Central Command intelligence chief, the ex-official said, “something’s wrong”.
Clapper’s calls placed Grove in a difficult bureaucratic position: between the nominal leader of the entire US intelligence apparatus and his lower-level analysts, several of whom consider the war against Isis to be in dire straits.
Central Command analyst's dissatisfaction with Grove and his civilian deputy, Greg Ryckman, has now sparked an official inquiry by the Pentagon inspector general.
Over 50 intelligence analysts have registered complaints about manipulated or skewed data. Analysts object to internal portrayals, said to come ultimately from Grove and Ryckman, of a war proceeding better than Isis’s persistent hold over large swaths of Iraq and Syria suggests.
One source said Obama aides were not receptive to hearing “the narrative that Isis is winning”.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Ping on main post and especially to post 5 and Allen West article.
Convincing the military that its mission is to just put on a good show is difficult. This is equivalent to shelling the Normandy beaches in 1944, then telling the public the war has been won.
"...have y’all noticed, the predominant demographic of “folks” escaping Syria and Iraq are not elderly, women, and children…...they are young men?"... - MarvinStinson
Indeed, we've noticed. The numbers of officially recognized migrants/refugees are alarming without considering the 'family reunification' requests/efforts which are sure to follow in series, as brothers, uncles, sisters, wives all require additional 'family reunification' to reinforce their invasion/ hijrah.
Possibly you were thinking CIA Director Brennan?
Thanks for tipoff Greyfriar
Thanks for the ping to post # 5 and the Allen West article. This administration pushes its agenda regardless of the facts.
Or as he is fondly known: Clueless Clapper.
You forgot, John Brennan = enemy within
Of course.
CLAPPER IS PART OF A USELESS bureaucracy that delays intel from reaching decision makers and is a POLITICAL OPERATIVE, AND A LIAR... There are tens of thousands of people in the DNI doing n o t h i n g EXCEPT OCCUPYING SPACE.
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
Active Duty ping.
Brennan of the CIA is a Muslim.
Right. I mixed up the two.
It sounds as if Clapper might as well be one. Or a closet Muslim.
You forgot HUMA ..??
She is also Muslim Brotherhood.
I sure did.
Or maybe in that case it is so obvious that it didn’t occur to me to mention it.
Huma is PROOF of what is going on.
Remember how FRANTIC McCain was when Michelle Bachmann called attention to Huma?
No.
Well .. I’ve learned that while a lot of us know about these people .. we are constantly getting new people on this site who don’t have a clue about HUMA.
So, what seems obvious to us .. is not always obvious to others.
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