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50 Defense Dept. Whistleblowers Slam "Stalinist" Pentagon Officials For Lying About ISIS
Submitted by Carey Wedler via TheAntiMedia.org,
The Pentagon has erupted in “revolt” amid claims from 50 intelligence analysts that senior defense officials manipulated intelligence reports to downplay the severity of the Islamic State’s increasing upper-hand in the Middle East. According to allegations made in an official complaint with the Department of Defense Inspector General, the officers in question doctored reports — among other things — in order to maintain the Pentagon and president’s narrative that the war against the Islamic State, as well as Al Qaeda in Syria, is succeeding. To the contrary, the dissenting analysts — now effectively whistleblowers — have repeatedly attempted to warn that the situation is far more dismal than what authorities are revealing to the public.
“The cancer was within the senior level of the intelligence command,” one defense official told the Daily Beast, which broke the story late Wednesday. Two senior analysts at CENTCOM — the U.S. military’s central command Middle East and Central Asia — filed the formal complaint with the Defense Department’s Inspector General in July (the analysts are formally employed by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s dedicated spy wing).
Other analysts are willing to back up allegations with “concrete examples.” 11 of 50 intelligence analysts spoke anonymously with the Daily Beast, detailing various methods senior defense officials have used to downplay the terrorist groups’ influence and power. This is particularly concerning considering the story told to the public is already pitiful, portraying grave threats to the United States.
In some cases, analysts allege reports that portrayed the war in too negative a light were simply prevented from moving higher up the chain of command. In other cases, they were sent back down to analysts, prompting many to self-censor their reports out of fear of rejection or punitive action.
Most sordid, perhaps, are claims that senior officials blatantly altered reports ”…to be more in line with the Obama administration’s public contention that the fight against ISIS and al Qaeda is making progress.” Additionally, protesting officials told the Daily Beast that
“…in some cases key elements of intelligence reports were removed, resulting in a document that didn’t accurately capture the analysts’ conclusions.” They allege “…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.”
Many analysts said that because of these practices, they felt they could not provide an honest, unbiased analysis of the situation in Iraq and Syria — a task they were hired to perform. Others expressed this was because of the career ambitions of high-ranking officials who did not want negative reports about the conflict to compromise their chances of further advancement.
This leadership was also accused of creating an unsustainable work environment. “One person who knows the contents of the written complaint sent to the inspector general said it used the word ‘Stalinist’ to describe the tone set by officials overseeing CENTCOM’s analysis,” the Daily Beast reported (This should come as little surprise considering the free reign the United States military has enjoyed not only since 9/11, but throughout the 20th century. That officials are eager to bolster their own personal power seems inevitable within an institution that has projected the same megalomania around the world).
Two analysts who spoke to the Daily Beast said complaints about ignored and doctored reports warning of the grimness of the conflict had been expressed since last October. Some who complained were urged to retire from their positions while others agreed to leave. Because of the lack of response from superiors to these grievances, the two senior analysts filed the formal complaint with the Inspector General.
In response to the Daily Beast’s article, the Pentagon offered a tepid, generic response that appeared little more than a jumble of key terms intended to obfuscate the seriousness of the issue at hand.
“While we cannot comment on the specific investigation cited in the article, we can speak to the process. The Intelligence Community routinely provides a wide range of subjective assessments related to the current security environment. These products and the analysis that they present are absolutely vital to our efforts, particularly given the incredibly complex nature of the multi-front fights that are ongoing now in Iraq and Syria,” Air Force Colonel and CENTCOM spokesman Patrick Ryder said.
“Senior civilian and military leadership consider these assessments during planning and decision-making, along with information gained from various other sources, to include the insights provided by commanders on the ground and other key advisors, intelligence collection assets, and previous experience,” he added, failing to address the analysts’ concerns.
In light of these revelations, it is difficult to tell which is worse: that the Pentagon has monumentally failed in its exploits of the Middle East — creating an environment for ISIS and Al Qaeda to rise to power — or that its leaders willfully withhold information for the sake of self-preservation and misleading an already terrified public. Regardless, the sheer number of analysts willing to step forward simultaneously highlights the systemic decay of integrity and effectiveness within the agency tasked with protecting the public — and a small shred of hope for forcing a modicum of accountability.
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So... Does this mean I'd better buy me some plastic and duct tape up a "safe room" before the fuckers hit us with chemical weapons here at home?
Unless you have an independent pure air supply, might as well duct tape a plastic bag over your head and hope the crisis passes quickly
The Pentagon is like dog shit stuck to your shoe, America. Wherever you go the stench of the dog shit Pentagon permeates the air you breathe to a point that makes everyone seek fresh air. The institutional stench will never abate until you scrape that shit off your shoe completely. The Pentagon is a destroyed, and defunct, malinvestment of the American people, and it will drag you down to the level of destruction that they operate within because that is what they do to anyone that gets in their way. Realize that the Pentagon is self-protective to a point of exclusion of all that stand in their way. Now take that assumption to a logical conclusion and ask yourself if the Pentagon is worth supporting if their intention is to force you into servitude to their lofty goal of Global domination, and continued American Hegemony? In point of fact, the Pentagon is not sustainable in light of the economic devastation that they engineered through the Chicago School of Economic Neoliberalism. If you support the Pentagon you are worthy of the destruction they will most certainly bring to your existence in the very near future, SUCKERS!
There's a name for that smell, you know. It's called MIC.
And if you were a "citizen" of the USSA, you would do what, exactly? I refer to you individually, not some general statement of "what everyone should do", because virtually everyone around you is a confused sheep.
As you see, the problem in the USSA and EU and CA and AU and elsewhere in the "developed world" is similar in this regard. The few who can see are so outnumbered by sheep, they can hardly move, much less be effective.
So it isn't that you're wrong, it is that the few non-sheep who aren't wolves are in quite a difficult situation, don't you think? I did.
If I was a citizen of the USA I would leave the USA and seek citizenship elsewhere, honestann. Moreover, I would take all of my money off the table in the USSA, and I would invest in opposition to everything American. In brief, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. President Putin is my friend, and so is Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Chelsey Manning, et al. The United States of America is an arch enemy of the entire world and it must be destroyed outright before some semblance of humanity, and human decency, is restored to all of our lives. The American Government has become a rogue state of wanton destruction that can no longer be tolerated by anyone. Frankly, we destroyed Adolf Hitler for the same bullshit that the American Government is now promulgating throughout the entire world. George Bush did not have a little mustache like Hitler but he certainly has the same atrophied grey matter IMHO. Bottom line is that I would do everything in my power to finish off the USA once and for all because the USA leadership is demented pathologically.
Like vermin that foul the food supply they must be destroyed before the world can regain a modicum of health back to our collective existence.
Obviously I agree, which is why I abandoned ship 4 years ago and moved to the boonies in southern hemisphere.
Given that clueless sheep so outnumber the few with a clue, the only practical way to "defeat" the human predators who are the USSA government is to "shrug" and let nature take its course. That will be horrific for the sheep, but that's the price of being willfully clueless.
"If I was a citizen of the USA I would leave the USA and seek citizenship elsewhere, honestann. Moreover, I would take all of my money off the table in the USSA, and I would invest in opposition to everything American."
"Escape" isn't possible. It's global! Further, with nationalism on the rise, and only going to get more intense, you're going to be a huge target anywhere you land. And your "money?" Ha ha!
You see, even though there's lots of excellent dissection going on here it's STILL missing the underlying source of the problem. People can say it's this entity or that entity, and though this might be true for identifying who is pulling strings, the PROBLEM lies in the FACT that we PROVIDE the strings for pulling! We collectively have, for eons, been suckered into the game of growth. This game makes us believe that we can engage in perpetual wealth creation, that "all" can rise if we abide by the string-pullers' commands. You see, the trick that's hidden in plain sight is that we allow ourselves to be controlled by The Big Lie, we run with the false premise of perpetual growth on a finite planet. When we accept this premise as being true then those that can do good string-pulling work, the sociopaths, manipulate us by way of "interest" and "debt." NONE of this is new, NONE of this is the creation of the US/"Americans." All empires have ravaged others in their quest to maintain the growth game: eventually the levels of growth/appetite cannot be met and the empire collapses; some other group then re-racks the growth game and we're running the Big Ponzi once more.
Brooksley Born tried to go through all the proper channels to warn us all that our existence was about to be threatened by the dictates of The Committee To Ruin The World, but everyone ignored her sage advice in favour of Extend & Pretend macroprudential policy. We are all now collectively fucked because of the old boy's network of American Economists that have literally no understanding of Economics proper, or Empiricism, let alone the historiography of filthy Lucre, or totalitarianism. We are not indentured into servitude to Israel, or de Rothschild Bank. In point of fact, they are indentured into servitude to my will. And I will waterboard the motherfuckers until they are dead & disposed of like the human waste they have become.
We are not indentured into servitude to Israel, or de Rothschild Bank. In point of fact, they are indentured into servitude to my will. And I will waterboard the motherfuckers until they are dead & disposed of like the human waste they have become.
So more of the same - except with you running the show - will cure the disease?
Pardon me if I decline to participate. I don't want the disease.
It's a done deal, MSimon. I did not request your participation and would not expect you to understand.
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The US military, displaying the deceit and thugishness of the Obama administration and the Russians. Let's get back to straight forward honesty and frankness and avoid bigger problems than we already have.
"Let's get back to straight forward honesty and frankness and avoid bigger problems than we already have."
When the fuck has ANY empire engaged in "straight forward honesty and frankness?" When was it ever like that in the US (or Russia)?
The Department of Science Fiction.
Move Washington D.C. to Somalia and we'll all be safer.
So will they be jailed next to Manning and the empty hole reserved for Snowden?
The Pentagon is a bastion of Idiocracy gone wild.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBvIweCIgwk
it's well known that the "pentagon" is a nest of corruption and a den for the servants of the Chaos god Obama....Blood for the blood god!
disinformation to convolute initial disinformation, sort of like 2 negatives to make a positive (lies upon lies to make an excuse to intensify Terrorism and Imperialism and to justify it)
it's a similar psychological tactic as Democrat VS Republican, one attacks the other and they eventually do what the Ruling Elite wanted (since they control both) while fooling the population into thinking it was a compromise or there was no other option.
a rabid pack of psychopaths
human life is insignificant, power and profit is everything
Yup....
The information put forth in this "defection" will be used to ante up on the war effort. Just in time, considering that Russia and Iran have entered the fray. How convenient.
I hate being cynical, but it strains credulity. The true motives will be more obvious in hindsight, after we see the results of this "defection."
Let me get this straight, there's 50 annalists but only 11 unnamed anonymous ones supposedly talk, and the two who actually did file reports are not currently employees. So what's that got to do with the other 39? Numbers are the highest form of language, what are they really communicating again, because it's another numbers bullshit story with ulterior motives, message is in the numbers. The story is always built around them. That's why the story never makes sense, but the numbers do to the intended audience.
Seems to me if you set up several pro con or indifferent propaganda arguments, you should be able to steer the sheeple to increased war for neocons.
This story seems to be a counter punch to recent polls stating a favorable position to a military coup. Maybe mass firing of generals on the way.
Last point, sheeple is a derogatory term to sheep. At least they are able to recognize a wolf when they see one.
If only we could get the MIC to go to war with the Bankers we could free america.
Might happen. Has already come close. MIC funding was cut with the sequester, which ultimately arose because of the bad bills funded to bail out the bankers. So don't be surprised by anything.
Our elite need to be forced to follow the same laws as the rest of us.
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Meanwhile over here in crazy old "Yurp" we are utterly fooked, we will be mudslime within half a generation, oh well.
WTF does anyone expect when we have a communist for a president who won't acknowledge radical islam and uses every federal agency for his jack booted agenda?
Nothing to get excited about, just trying to keep the public from being alarmed over nothing. Let the Arab world murder each other over their convoluted religion. The Americans and the Russians will keep the oil flowing.
The neo cons running the State Department were never cleaned out by Obama and are all X-Cheney whackos are the ones responsible for the chain of failed U.S. Foreign Policy decisions and only served to undermine the Democrats.You've never seen such a string of poorly thought out ongoing war strategies during Obama's term in Office.I give Victoria Nuland credit for handing out her cookies.Coo-Coo
WTF is this article on about the USA, Israel & UK "ARE ISIS", this editorial is nothing more than glammed up distraction
c'mon ZH we're not all brainwashed zombies who fall for this crap
Exactly! Whistleblowers now calling for more of the agenda rather than an end to it......Pmsl and get fucked :-)
I count the entry Daily Beast in this article how many times? So we have 50 DoD agents expressing their beef via the DB. That means we can only get a filtered version of what is being expressed via the DB. Let us learn about the DB:
Please don't let Wikipedia fool ya. Wiki would not dare allow the fact that the Walton family (Walmart / Sam's) operate at the pleasure of Bain Capital ..
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/09/11/american-evil-pentagram-propagan...
So how evil is evil?
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/05/04/neo-so-much-more-than-nukes/
http://wantarevelations.com/2014/01/wanta-plan-macro-financial-economic-...
You tell me ..
For the rest of the story. Start studying ..
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I can almost guarantee you that Jon T. Rymer, current DoD I.G. is a GHWB crony. So all complaints are going into a file labeled "black hole."
Everything IS rotten. It IS going to be changed ..
Not surprising. When even my Little Brother quits the Pentagon because of its corruption and incompetence, there can't be anyone left working in the upper echelons with as much moral fiber as a pit viper.
When I was a child, people still entered the military with a vocation of dedicated service to the nation. After Vietnam, followed by Reagan's covert operations, anyone who joins up and DOESN'T know that they are being used to further the personal fortunes and ambitions of wealthy campaign contributors, oil companies, and banksters, is an idiot. This means that only idiots and psychopaths are left in uniform.