‘Something’s Wrong’: Sources Express Concern Over Spy Chief’s ‘Unusual’ Contact With Military Official at Center of ISIS Intel Scandal

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The Blaze:

After the Pentagon’s inspector general began an investigation into reports that U.S. Central Command analysts were being manipulated into changing their intelligence reports on the Islamic State, sources now are saying that the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has had “highly unusual” calls with a military officer.

 

Sources speaking with the Guardian on the condition of anonymity allege that Clapper holds almost daily calls with Army Brigadier General Steven Grove, which a former intelligence official said “is highly, highly unusual.” Grove, the Guardian reported, “is said to be implicated in a Pentagon inquiry into manipulated war intelligence.”

 

Here’s more from the report:

In communications, Clapper, who is far more senior than Grove, is said to tell Grove how the war looks from his vantage point, and question Grove about Central Command’s assessments. Such a situation could place inherent pressure on a subordinate, sources said.

 

Knowledgeable former officials are doubtful that Clapper directly intends to manipulate intelligence. And they do not say that the director of national intelligence – who apologized to his Senate overseers in 2013 for publicly misleading Congress on the scope of domestic surveillance – ordered Grove or anyone else to change the command’s assessment of the war.

 

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“He can be manipulative,” a former senior defense official said of Clapper. For Clapper as a senior US intelligence officer with access to assessments across the 16 US intelligence agencies to query Grove, the Central Command intelligence chief, the ex-official said, “something’s wrong”.

 

 

A senior intelligence official told the Guardian that the conversations between Central Command and Clapper “are strictly limited to tactical developments such as what happened on the ground overnight regarding issues affecting U.S. personnel and allied forces. They are not broad or strategic assessments.”

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The left hand knew too much what the right hand was doing?