Military investigates to see if its ISIS reports covered up failures

Military investigates to see if its ISIS reports covered up failures | The Seattle Times:
The Pentagon is investigating accusations from analysts that supervisors revised conclusions to mask some of the U.S. military’s failures in training Iraqi troops and beating back the Islamic State.
WASHINGTON — When Islamic State group fighters overran a string of Iraqi cities last year, analysts at U.S. Central Command wrote classified assessments for military-intelligence officials and policymakers that documented the humiliating retreat of the Iraqi army.
But before the assessments were final, former intelligence officials said, the analysts’ superiors made significant changes.
In the revised documents, the Iraqi army had not retreated.
The soldiers had simply “redeployed.”
Such changes are at the heart of an expanding internal Pentagon investigation of CENTCOM, as Central Command is known, where analysts say supervisors revised conclusions to mask some of the U.S. military’s failures in training Iraqi troops and in beating back the Islamic State group. 
The analysts say supervisors were particularly eager to paint a more optimistic picture of America’s role in the conflict than was warranted..."