POLITICS BREAKING: U.S. Lawmakers Make Stunning Move To Investigate Obama For Helping ISIS
Three committees in the House of Representatives announced Friday
that they were launching concurrent investigations into allegations
that President Barack Obama deliberately manipulated intelligence
reports from Syria and Iraq, allowing the Islamic State group to thrive.
According
to the Washington Examiner, Republican Reps. Ken Calvert of California,
Mike Pompeo of Kansas and Brad Wenstrup of Ohio will lead the
investigations for the Armed Services Committee, Intelligence Committee
and the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, respectively.
“In
addition to looking into the specific allegations, the Joint Task Force
will examine whether these allegations reflect systemic problems across
the intelligence enterprise in CENTCOM or any other pertinent
intelligence organizations,” read a joint statement from Armed Services
Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, Intelligence Committee
Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and Defense Appropriations Subcommittee
Chairman Rodney Freylinghuysen, R-N.J.
The
investigations by the House committees joined an investigation by the
Pentagon’s inspector general’s office in relation to the Obama
administration’s alleged manipulation of Islamic State group
intelligence at U.S. Central Command.
A
September report said that 50 intelligence officials at CENTCOM had
signed a letter claiming intelligence on the Islamic State group had
been doctored.
The
report claimed that the Obama administration would deliberately punish
any intelligence official who gave accurate assessments of terror group
strength and didn’t doctor the information to make it look like the
United States was winning the battle against them.
Even Democrats have gotten on the president and the administration about the intelligence doctoring, including one of the ranking Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Jackie Speier of California.
Even Democrats have gotten on the president and the administration about the intelligence doctoring, including one of the ranking Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Jackie Speier of California.
“More
recently the intelligence community, I think, has provided much more
accurate assessments. But CENTCOM, which is the area that is responsible
for the Middle East, has, for whatever reasons, we don’t know yet why,
has dumbed down the intelligence, has sweetened it, has made it seem
like we are being more successful there than we are,” Speier said.
“I’m
deeply troubled by what I believe is doctoring that has taken place and
has created an impression that we are doing better there than we
actually are.”
Rep. Speier may claim “we don’t know yet why” intelligence reports were doctored, but we’re pretty sure we understand why.
And pretty soon, these congressional investigations will reveal officially put the “why” out there for the world to see.
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you think this deriliction of duty by Obama has helped the Islamic
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Laura J Alcorn
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