By Matt Agorist
A scathing government task force report released on Thursday, shows that intelligence generated by the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) was deliberately skewed.
Last year a senior analyst came forward noting that classified intelligence was being withheld. The whistleblower’s complaint is what led to the initial investigation by the Defense Department inspector general.
However, in September of last year, the Free Thought Project reported on how more than 50 U.S. military intelligence analysts operating out of CENTCOM staged what was called a ‘revolt’ by intelligence professionals. The revolt came after announcing that their intelligence reports were being altered and manipulated to fit the public narrative that the U.S. is winning the battle against ISIS.
“The facts on the ground didn’t match what the intelligence was saying out of the United States Central Command,” said Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., a member of the task force.
The task force confirmed that both classified and public information was being manipulated by high-level officials.
As CBS News reports, the task force also found that CENTCOM’s public statements were far more positive than events on the ground warranted — such as in March 2015 when CENTCOM Commander Gen. Lloyd Austin testified to Congress.
“The fact is that he [ISIS] can no longer do what he did at the outset, which is to seize and hold new territory. He has assumed a defensive crouch in Iraq,” Gen. Austin said.
However, during those very statements, ISIS was preparing to overrun the Iraqi city of Ramadi.
According to the unclassified report, much of what was presented to the public was false:
Based on its own investigation, the Joint Task Force has substantiated that structural and management changes made at the CENTCOM Intelligence Directorate starting in mid-2014 resulted in the production and dissemination of intelligence products that were inconsistent with the judgments of many senior, career analysts at CENTCOM. These products were consistently more optimistic regarding the conduct of U.S. military action than that of the senior analysts. Based on specific case studies evaluated by the Joint Task Force, during the time period evaluated by the Joint Task Force, CENTCOM produced intelligence that was also significantly more optimistic than that of other parts of the Intelligence Community (IC) and typically more optimistic than actual events warranted. Additionally, many CENTCOM press releases, public statements, and congressional testimonies were also significantly more positive than actual events.
While the Obama administration is attempting to maintain that they knew nothing about this intelligence manipulation, the nature of this report and the high-level officials involved, implies otherwise.
“The cancer was within the senior level of the intelligence command,” one defense official told The Daily Beast in September.
“There’s enormous evidence about how this information from talented career professionals inside the analytic arm at CENTCOM did their job and accurately depicted what was going on on the ground, but when it got to very senior levels, that information was changed,” Pompeo said.
Only months after Obama made his statements about ISIS being “JV,” he was forced to acknowledge that the terrorist group was overrunning parts of Iraq. Then, by the following August, he announced US-led coalition airstrikes in the region to combat extremists. After that, 5,000 troops were deployed. All of this — just as Americans were being told everything is “A-Okay.”
When the government is caught outright lying to the public to manipulate their feelings toward war, this should should raise serious red flags. The citizens of the United States have already been duped when intelligence was skewed about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. That little white lie convinced Americans to support an illegal war, which, in turn, led to a deadly quagmire in the Middle East that laid waste to over a million innocent lives.
Matt Agorist is the co-founder of TheFreeThoughtProject.com, where this article first appeared. He is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. Follow @MattAgorist.
The State faked a report ?
What a SURPRISE !!!
It never did such a thing before !
LOL
Since Obama is the Imposter and Their and he is responsible for everything done in this country, IMPEACH THE A$$HOLE!
how about you take a gun, point it at your head, pull the trigger, and blow your filthy head off.
Please demonstrate that for me so I can get that right
Obama is a teleprompt reading sock puppet and the only real decisions he is allowed to make is which iron he wants to use to chip to the green!
Since learning about the funders and mentors of the founders, the nation has always been a fraud to the majority. Leading politicians and military have always been in the pockets of those that give them wealth and power. Since 1897, the people have chosen the road to perdition and have become as rotten as their leaders. We are known by our fruits and our fruits a death, destruction, lies and thievery. All bow to the owners of the Tower of Basil. There are no more excuses. All of this depravity is entertaining to some and a way of life for many. The .01% has infected the majority, especially in the “western” nations.
The lies people used to hate we now will defend to the death. ISIS is new, but using religion for political and profit is thousands of years old. National pride does not exist for the owners but is a device of deception to fabricate reasons for mass murder on as great of a scale as the owners can get away with. The only belief system that matters to the owners is that to deceive themselves by the head rabbis, ministers and clerics to get around their morals and laws which they push on everyone else.
To blame others and not ourselves for the abominations taking place in this world is a lazy person’s way out of the obligation act in turning against this onslaught against one another. The owners not only are laughing on the way to the bank, they own and run the damned thing and control everything else.
All Systems Global
TOP – Owners of Private Banking System
Next – Privately owned Central Banks
Next – Intelligence agencies protecting the owners
Next – Resource extraction industries
Next – Military forces to expand areas for resource extraction
Next – Manufacturing Industries including vertical integration/production of Food “stuffs”
Next – Federal Investigative Enforcers protecting manufacturing and above
Next – Distribution and Retail
Next – Local Militarized Police forcing the rule of men
This in itself is B.S. How about skewed reports indicating the U.S. (NATO, the West, etc) not involved with building and backing ISIS? Never mind this false battles against their creation.
Say it aint so. The no-name potus of the Usurped States, the same guy that won a fake nobel peace prize, that guy, wants war…The nwo agenda at it’s finest.
nooooooooooooooo! Say it ain’t so! The US government lied once again!
Well after “Saddam has weapons of mass distraction”, I do NOT believe anything the US gov says!
“2012 Pentagon report warned Obama was creating ISIS”. Google that and see if Trump was right! A Defense Intelligence Agency document
declassified last year shows the Obama administration was warned in 2012
that if it continued its policies, a radical Islamic regime could form
in Eastern Syria.