<p><a href="https://punchingbagpost.com/house-report-centcom-manipulated-data-about-isis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>As I wrote last week</strong></a>, CENTCOM (US Central Command) has been accused of manipulating military data in order to paint a brighter picture of America&rsquo;s fight against ISIS.</p>
<p>This accusation comes from a 15-page House report, which also states that it has no proof that orders to skew data came from the White House.</p>
<p>Now, a former brigadier general claims that Obama&rsquo;s briefer instructed a CENTCOM official to manipulate intelligence on ISIS. ;</p>
<p>On Monday, former US Army Brigadier General Anthony Tata told <em>Fox News</em> that &ldquo;there&rsquo;s been chaos all over the Middle East&rdquo; since Obama withdrew US troops from Iraq. ;</p>
<p>President Obama campaigned on the notion that &ldquo;bringing our troops home&rdquo; was the right thing to do, and he didn&rsquo;t want the public to hear news that would prove him wrong. ;</p>
<p>According to Tata, an individual from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence ordered a CENTCOM official to stop producing &ldquo;products of record&rdquo; that did not match President Obama&rsquo;s narrative of a defeated Al Qaeda and a rather tame ISIS. ;</p>
<p>Tata&rsquo;s source was instructed to call the briefer on a private line if he had any intel suggesting ISIS to be more dangerous than what President Obama had characterized to the American public. ;He claims this distortion convinced the US to ignore ISIS, which in turn gave the terrorist organization the time and space to grow into the &ldquo;formidable force&rdquo; it is today. ;</p>
<p>Tata slams the senior official as &ldquo;highly irresponsible&rdquo; for downplaying the threat of ISIS. &ldquo;Now we have a real, valid national security threat that was borne out of this directive to Central Command,&#8221; says Tata. ;&ldquo;You have good American soldiers, sailors, Marines, and civilians that are being isolated and targeted by people that are in the J-2 [CENTCOM&rsquo;s intelligence directorate].&rdquo;</p>