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Three committees in the House of Representatives announced Friday that they were launching concurrent investigations into allegations that President Barack Obama deliberately manipulated intelligence<\/a> reports from Syria and Iraq, allowing the Islamic State group to thrive.<\/p>\n According to the Washington Examiner<\/a>, Republican Reps.\u00a0Ken Calvert of California, Mike Pompeo of Kansas and Brad Wenstrup of Ohio will lead the investigations for the\u00a0Armed Services Committee, Intelligence Committee and the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, respectively.<\/p>\n \u201cIn addition to looking into the specific allegations, the Joint Task Force will examine whether these allegations reflect systemic problems across the intelligence enterprise in CENTCOM or any other pertinent intelligence organizations,\u201d read a joint statement from Armed Services Committee Chairman\u00a0Mac Thornberry<\/a>, R-Texas, Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Rodney Freylinghuysen, R-N.J.<\/p>\n The investigations by\u00a0the House committees joined an investigation by the Pentagon\u2019s inspector general\u2019s office in relation to the Obama administration\u2019s alleged manipulation of Islamic State group intelligence at U.S. Central Command.<\/p>\n A September report<\/a> said\u00a0that 50 intelligence officials at CENTCOM had signed a letter claiming intelligence\u00a0on the Islamic State group had been doctored.<\/p>\n The report claimed that the Obama administration would deliberately punish any intelligence official who gave accurate assessments of terror group strength and didn\u2019t doctor the information to make it look like the United States was winning the battle against them.<\/p>\n Even Democrats have gotten on the president and the administration about the intelligence doctoring, including one of the ranking Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Jackie Speier of California.<\/p>\n \u201cMore recently the intelligence community, I think, has provided much more accurate assessments. But CENTCOM, which is the area that is responsible for the Middle East, has, for whatever reasons, we don\u2019t know yet why,\u00a0has dumbed\u00a0down the intelligence<\/a>, has sweetened it, has made it seem like we are\u00a0being more successful there than we are,\u201d Speier said.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m deeply troubled by what I believe is doctoring that has taken place and has created an impression that we are doing better there than we actually are.\u201d<\/p>\n Rep. Speier may claim \u201cwe don\u2019t know yet why\u201d intelligence reports were doctored, but we\u2019re pretty sure we understand why.<\/p>\n And pretty soon, these congressional investigations will reveal officially put the \u201cwhy\u201d out there for the world to see.<\/p>\n Do you think this deriliction of duty by Obama has helped\u00a0the Islamic State group to thrive?\u00a0Please share this story on Facebook and Twitter and let us know.<\/p>\n