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In September 2015, news reports surfaced that more than 50 U.S. intelligence analysts working with the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) had filed complaints with the Pentagon's inspector general alleging that their analysis was manipulated by senior officials to downplay the threat from ISIS and the al-Nusra Front (the al-Qaeda branch in Syria).1 The journalists reported that management had altered the analysts' assessments to bolster the Obama administration's claim that the U.S. was making progress in defeating the Islamist terrorist groups.
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