Valin Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 The Weekly Standard: DANIEL HALPER Mar 6, 2015 Stephen F. Hayes and Thomas Joscelyn report in the * Wall Street Journal on the latest developments in uncovering how the Obama administration actively played down the threat of al Qaeda during President Obama's reelection campaign. (Snip) After a pitched bureaucratic battle, a small team of analysts from the Defense Intelligence Agency and Centcom was given time-limited, read-only access to the documents. The DIA team began producing analyses reflecting what they were seeing in the documents. At precisely the time Mr. Obama was campaigning on the imminent death of al Qaeda, those with access to the bin Laden documents were seeing, in bin Laden’s own words, that the opposite was true. Says Lt. Gen. Flynn: “By that time, they probably had grown by about—I’d say close to doubling by that time. And we knew that.” This wasn’t what the Obama White House wanted to hear. So the administration cut off DIA access to the documents and instructed DIA officials to stop producing analyses based on them. (Snip) * behind Pay Wall Google "How America Was Misled on al Qaeda’s Demise" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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