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...