CBS is reporting that some in the Obama Administration have been understating the threat from the Islamic State:

Flash Points: Why the possibility of altered ISIS intelligence reports is alarming
September 10, 2015, 5:05 PM|CBS News Senior National Security Analyst Juan Zarate and CBS News Homeland Security Correspondent Jeff Pegues talk about reports that senior officials are trying to put a positive spin on the fight against ISIS.

The above report says there is a possibility of data manipulation by the Obama Administration for political purposes. CBS News Senior National Security Analyst Juan Zarate says that this could be a major problem. He also said perhaps the problem is how some in the Obama Administration are instead misinterpreting the data, which also is not good.

Notice also the following:

It’s being called a ‘revolt’ by intelligence pros who are paid to give their honest assessment of the ISIS war—but are instead seeing their reports turned into happy talk.
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.
Two senior analysts at CENTCOM signed a written complaint sent to the Defense Department inspector general in July alleging that the reports, some of which were briefed to President Obama, portrayed the terror groups as weaker than the analysts believe they are. The reports were changed by CENTCOM higher-ups to adhere to the administration’s public line that the U.S. is winning the battle against ISIS and al Nusra, al Qaeda’s branch in Syria, the analysts claim.
That complaint was supported by 50 other analysts, some of whom have complained about politicizing of intelligence reports for months. That’s according to 11 individuals who are knowledgeable about the details of the report and who spoke to The Daily Beast on condition of anonymity. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/09/exclusive-50-spies-say-isis-intelligence-was-cooked.html

This understating of the Islamic State seemingly has been the policy of the Obama Administration from the beginning. President Obama himself dismissed the group as an issue a few months before it rose up in prominence.

But pretending that it is not a problem does not change the facts. ... Read full article

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