US military `manipulated` intel in ISIS fight
District of Columbia: US military leaders painted an overly optimistic picture of American efforts to fight the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, a damning government report released Thursday found.
The interim report stems from a congressional task force investigating whistleblower allegations that intel bosses cherry-picked information that soft-pedaled the risk of IS while overstating US efforts to train local forces to fight the jihadists.
"From the middle of 2014 to the middle of 2015, the United States Central Command`s (CENTCOM`s) most senior intelligence leaders manipulated the command`s intelligence products to downplay the threat from ISIS in Iraq," Republican Congressman Mike Pompeo said in a statement, using an IS acronym
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