From the Daily Beast:
More than 50 intelligence analysts working out of the U.S. military's Central Command have formally complained that their reports on ISIS and al Qaeda’s branch in Syria were being inappropriately altered by senior officials, The Daily Beast has learned.
The complaints spurred the Pentagon’s inspector general to open an investigation into the alleged manipulation of intelligence. The fact that so many people complained suggests there are deep-rooted, systemic problems in how the U.S. military command charged with the war against the self-proclaimed Islamic State assesses intelligence.
"The cancer was within the senior level of the intelligence command," one defense official said. [The first complaint filed by two analysts] was supported by 50 other analysts, some of whom have complained about politicizing of intelligence reports for months.
The accusations suggest that a large number of people tracking the inner workings of the terror groups think that their reports are being manipulated to fit a public narrative. The allegations echoed charges that political appointees and senior officials cherry-picked intelligence about Iraq's supposed weapons program in 2002 and 2003.
Some of those CENTCOM analysts described the sizeable cadre of protesting analysts as a "revolt" by intelligence professionals who are paid to give their honest assessment, based on facts, and not to be influenced by national-level policy.
The analysts have accused senior-level leaders, including the commander in charge of intelligence and his deputy in CENTCOM, of changing their analyses to be more in line with the Obama administration's public contention that the fight against ISIS and al Qaeda is making progress.
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Exploiting Ignorance in the Post Subversion Phase..., An Unconstrained Analytics Report by Stephen Coughlin, 14 August 2015
Graeme Wood’s March 2015 Atlantic article “What ISIS Really Wants” brought back a few bad memories from my days at the Pentagon, where I was mobilized to the Joint Staff Intelligence after 9/11. One such memory was the frequent assertion, beginning around 2003, that “Sistani is a ‘quietist’.” Another was the March 2007 Foreign Affairs article “The Moderate Muslim Brotherhood.”
As both narratives supported strategic distractions, the fact that the two came together in the Atlantic article raised red flags. We have been here before—many times. These flags will be addressed in the following analysis in the context of their associated concerns.
It is argued that the Atlantic article supports narratives that continue to justify the outsourcing of the production of America’s information requirements in support of the counterterror effort to non-U.S. actors, in this case Middle Eastern, in much the way that the Muslim Brotherhood controls the domestic debate through the “countering violent extremism” (CVE) narrative.
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The shift to a Brotherhood-friendly policy set in motion a series of events beginning with the production of documents in 2008 at DHS and NCTC that placed the language of jihad off limits when analyzing (or even discussing) slamic-based terrorism. This was followed in 2010 by DHS bringing in Brotherhood leaders to help prop up the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) protocols that resulted in DHS institutionalizing the CVE through the production of “CVE Training Guidance & Best Practices” and related policy documents. It is through the CVE process that the purging of work product and personnel continues to this day.
"Fabian’s come in a variety of sub-forms: Globalists, Socialists, Progressives Communists, Keynesians, The Open Border Crowd, et al. However, the central DNA which aligns them all is a general view of a Central Planning Authority with control over the individual.
Back in the older days the Fabian’s rose from the Frankfurt School which transitioned to become Columbia University. They formed, indoctrinated and spread out over decades. As technology evolved, they refined their ability to sell their collective world view via social media platforms. But the origin of the ideology goes directly back to the Frankfurt School.
Fabian’s generally support a principle that human activity is able to be controlled toward a “better outcome”. They believe central planning by a central body can create a fundamentally better society than if individuals were left to their own decisions."
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As if Orwell's texts were instruction manuals, social orders flip to where the criminal is victim, authority is to be challenged/disrespected/eliminated, patriotism shamed, historic legacy rewritten, individuality discouraged, and the very language redefined and multilingual to diminish any root.
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From an engraving on the granite near Pres. JFKennedy's graveside:
"Let the word go forth from this tmie and place to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans." (insert Fabian influenced Americans)
"Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty."
"Now the trumpet summons us again not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need, not as a call to battle, though embattled we are, but as a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, a struggle against the common enemies of man, tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself."
insert Orwellian/PC/MC patterns to interpret above...get the picture?
Thanks for making me aware of this article. i will post on it later today.
These complainers will be dealt with just as all other racists, homophobes, sexists xenophobes, or whatever name the evil left digs up for this type of enemy in their way. They will lose their jobs. Now it's jobs, but it will soon be freedom and lives.
Anyone who doubts that is a fool !
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