Trump’s link to Russians: Fake intelligence creates fake news

The news media, at the behest of the Democrats and the GOP’s No-Trumpers, are all abuzz over allegations that intelligence officials have concluded the Russians hacked the Democratic National Committee’s email system and leaked damaging information regarding Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

However, based on the Obama White House and the top intelligence past history, anything that is presented as “intelligence reports” should be scrutinized by a non-partisan third party. 

But this writer [Jim Kouri] in October 2015 described a disturbing situation within U.S. intelligence agencies: doctoring reports in order to give President Barack Obama’s statements credence.  

In a report for the media watchdog group Accuracy in Media, former law enforcement official and crime analyst Jim Kouri discovered just how politicized America’s intelligence community became under the Obama administration:

Some of the U.S. intelligence community’s top analysts reportedly informed the Pentagon watchdog that their reports have been systematically edited to backup President Barack Obama‘s — and his national security team’s — assertions that the war on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as more successful than it actually is, according to news reports from outlets such asThe Hill.

This revelation is being touted as the very first time that so many intelligence analysts have complained to the Pentagon’s “top cop,” Inspector General Jon Rymer, about the politicizing of the intelligence gathering and analysis function. In July, a couple of analysts filed a complaint with Rymer’s office, after months of internal complaints were allegedly ignored.

It got so bad, according to Examiner source Pete Vanderhill, a former police intelligence division operative, that some of those career intelligence operatives who complained were bullied and forced to take early retirement, or the younger analysts just quit. After the mini-purge of intelligence officers, other analysts said they supported their colleagues’ formal report and can back up their claims of political shenanigans to make Obama, Kerry and others look good.

The most important — perhaps most damaging — complaint is that “senior [administration] officials are editing the intelligence analysts’ reports to bring them into line with the Obama administration’s claims” such as the Obama-led war on ISIS is successful. Also, the analysts were pressured, they say, to make Iran look less involved in terrorist support and that the Iranians have less interaction with terrorist groups such as Hezbollah and Palestinian terrorist groups. The suspected goal was to make Iran appear less dangerous to Americans while Obama and Kerry pursue a nuclear deal with the radical Islamist government.

Besides the internal investigation by Rymer’s office, Rep. Mac Thornberry (R., Texas), the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said his committee is investigating. “No doubt that these allegations are troubling and the committee is looking into them,” Thornberry said. “Accurate intelligence and unbiased analysis can often be a life or death matter and must remain free from political pressure.”

In addition, at least 50 intelligence officers and analysts working for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) blew the whistle and accused their agency of cherry-picking intelligence reports in order to benefit the Obama administration.

These U.S. intelligence officials formally filed complaints that their honest intelligence evaluations regarding the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and al-Qaida’s branch Al Nusra Front in Syria were altered by superiors to prop up President Barack Obama’s false proclamations that he and his “national security team” were winning the war.