Posted on 09/14/2015 5:23:08 PM PDT by markomalley
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee isn't waiting for the Pentagon inspector general to decide whether the Obama administration pressured intelligence analysts to skew data to make the Islamic State and its allies seem weaker in their reports.
Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, wrote Friday to Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Inspector General Jon Rymer demanding a briefing this week on the probe.
"We are deeply concerned about these allegations and want to ensure that intelligence provided to key decision-makers properly reflect the expert analysis produced by our intelligence community professionals," they wrote.
The inspector general's probe into the alleged manipulation of intelligence was first reported by the Daily Beast, which said more than 50 analysts at Central Command's headquarters in Tampa, Fla., had formally complained that their reports had been altered by senior officials to make the Islamic State seem weaker than it was.
The Guardian, meanwhile, reported last week that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was in nearly daily contact with Army Brig. Gen. Steven Grove, Central Command's director of intelligence. A former official said such an arrangement is "highly, highly unusual," further raising the question of whether the administration's Islamic State policy was based on politicized analysis of intelligence data.
The House Intelligence Committee also is watching the inspector general's probe, but has not yet taken any action.
"We are going to gather facts and, if we have to, open an investigation," Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., told the Washington Examiner.
John Boehner will ensure the hearings are a “total” farce ...
The media will get to work on its job of protecting 0 and will ignore this or sanitize it.
Lets face it. There was a quiet and rather bloodless coup d’ etat 8 years ago. The Republicans were complicit. Until all of the traitorous morons are removed from any position of authority nothing will change. Rush has it right today when he opined that the reason for Trump’s popularity is that his fingerprints are NOT on any of the legislation from the last 7 years. None. The guilty liars and traitors have to go!
Alleged?
And what about the current skewing of Iranian nuclear bomb intel ? Does Obama think that little bunker he added to the White House will protect him ?
Another useless investigation that goes nowhere. It’s only to give photo ops to different “Roger F*edbythenavel”s.
Bread and circuses for the masses; entitlement for the nobles who sneer at us.
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