>> THE PICTURE THAT WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN OF THE FIGHT AGAINST ISIS
AND AL QAEDA IN SYRIA HAS APPARENTLY BEEN MANIPULATED TO
FIT THE STORYLINE THAT THE WAR IS GOING WELL AND ISIS IS SLOWLY
BUT SURELY GOING DOWN.
THIS IS COMING FROM THE SORT OF PEOPLE
WHO YOU WOULD EXPECT TO KNOW, INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS.
MORE THAN
50 INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS WORKING OUT OF CENTRAL COMMAND HAVE
FORMALLY COMPLAINED THAT THE REPORTS ON ISIS AND AL QAEDA'S
BRANCH IN SYRIA WERE BEING INAPPROPRIATELY ALTERED BY
SENIOR OFFICIALS.
IN ADDITION, TWO SENIOR ANALYSTS AT CENTCOM
SIGNED A WRITTEN COMPLAINT SENT TO THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT
INSPECTOR GENERAL IN JULY ALLEGING THAT THE REPORTS, SOME
OF WHICH WERE BRIEFED TO PRESIDENT OBAMA, PORTRAYED THE
TERROR GROUPS AS WEAKER THAN THE ANALYSTS BELIEVE THEY ARE.
THE
REPORTS WERE CHANGED BY CENTCOM HIGHER UPS ACCORDING TO THESE
INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS TO ADHERE TO THE ADMINISTRATION'S PUBLIC
LINE WITH THE U.S.
AS WINNING THE BATTLE AGAINST ISIS AND AL QAEDA'S
BRANCH IN SYRIA.
>>THEY ARE SAYING THAT THEY HAVE FILED REPORTS BASED ON THE BEST
INFORMATION THEY HAVE ACCESS TO, BEING IN THAT REGION AND BEING
INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS, THAT ARE BEING EITHER SIGNIFICANTLY
WEAKENED BEFORE BEING PASSED UP THE CHAIN OF COMMAND, OR SIMPLY
BEING STOPPED FROM GOING UP TO THE PEOPLE WHO NEED TO HAVE
ACCESS TO THAT INFORMATION.
>> THIS IS WHAT I WAS SAYING BASED ON THE FACTS ON THE
GROUND.
OF COURSE WE ARE NOT WINNING.
THEY TOOK FALLUJA AND
THEY TOOK MOSUL AND THERE WAS SOME PATHETIC ATTEMPT FOR OUR
SIDE TO RETAKE RAMADI, WHICH WAS A DEBACLE.
AND WHAT DRIVES ME
CRAZY ABOUT THE REST OF THE MEDIA IS, I WILL NOT BELIEVE MY
LYING EYES, THE PENTAGON GAVE ME A STATEMENT SAYING WE ARE
WINNING.
REPORTS THAT WE ARE MAKING GREAT PROGRESS AGAINST
ISIS, AND GENERALS REPORT X, Y, AND Z, THE ADMINISTRATION BACKS IT
UP, SO THERE IS YOUR REPORT THAT I GOT FOR MY INSIDE SOURCE AT
THE PENTAGON.
NO, OF COURSE WE ARE NOT WINNING.
THEY ARE STILL
RIGHT THERE, WE HAVE BEEN THERE FOR SO LONG, WE HAVE NOT MOVED
THEM AN INCH.
WHAT PART OF THAT IS WINNING?
FINALLY 50 PEOPLE
FROM INTELLIGENCE COME OUT AND GO, YEAH, NO, THEY ARE LYING
AGAIN.
AT LEAST, THEY GOT, THEY DID THAT.
BY THE WAY, THE GUY
DRIVING THIS, AND THIS IS PART OF WHAT DRIVES ME CRAZY ABOUT
OBAMA, IS JOHN ALLEN.
HE WAS PUT IN CHARGE OF FIGHTING AGAINST
ISIS, HE IS A RETIRED MARINE GENERAL, AND A NEOCONSERVATIVE
IDIOT.
HE WAS ONE OF BUSH'S GUYS.
HE IS LIKE WAR, WAR, WE
WILL BOMB THEM, WE WILL WIN.
WE TRIED THAT ALREADY, JACKASS, IN
IRAQ.
IT DIDN'T WORK, IT CREATED ISIS.
OBAMA, WHY DID YOU PUT
THAT CLOWN IN CHARGE OF THIS?
IT TURNS OUT THAT THE INTELLIGENCE
GUYS NOT ONLY TELL THE GENERALS, REPORTING ONLY UP TO JOHN ALLEN,
WE ARE NOT WINNING, THEY ARE LIKE YEAH, YEAH, INTERESTING.
OKAY, ANYWAY, WHAT IS NEXT?
ON TOP OF THAT, THEY SAY THERE IS
SO MUCH PRESSURE THAT PEOPLE PREEMPTIVELY, IN ORDER TO PLEASE
THEIR BOSSES, CHANGE THEIR ACTUAL REPORT ON ISIS.
>>WHICH SHOULD BE THE LAST THING YOU WOULD EVER WANT IN INTELLIGENCE.
>>TALK ABOUT NEVER FORGET.
WE OPENED THE SHOW TALKING ABOUT
NEVER FORGET.
ONE OF THE BIGGEST SUCCESSFUL THINGS TO COME OUT OF
SEPTEMBER 11 WAS THE SHARING OF INFORMATION.
IT GOT A LOT
BETTER, BECAUSE IT WAS HIDEOUS BEFORE.
BUT PART OF THE SHARING
OF INFORMATION, IMPLICIT IN THE WAY TO IMPROVE SHARING
INFORMATION, IS THAT INFORMATION HAS TO BE TRUE.
WE ARE NOT
INTERESTED IN SHARING UNTRUE INFORMATION, THAT ACTUALLY
HURTS.
SO WE AGAIN HAVE GONE BACK TO THIS POINT OF, AS YOU
JUST SAID, GUYS LITERALLY CHANGING INFORMATION BECAUSE
THEY DON'T WANT TO DISAPPOINT THEIR BOSSES.
>>OR HARM THEIR CAREER.
>> IT WILL HARM YOUR CAREER.
A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE I WAS A
CADET WITH, HE WAS IN TOWN ABOUT SIX MONTHS AGO, HE WORKED WITH
DIA IN SAUDI ARABIA, REPORTED TO HIS BOSSES THAT THE SAUDIS
WERE FUNDING TERRORISM IN BOTH IRAQ AND SYRIA, AND HE GOT
REASSIGNED TO A VERY SMALL AFRICAN COUNTRY AS THEIR DEFENSE
LIAISON.
>>JESUS.
HOW DEPRESSING IS THAT.
>>HE SOLVED SAUDI ARABIA, NOW HE'S GOING TO SOLVE THEM.
>>THE PERSON ABOVE SAID, I CAN'T GET THAT NEWS, AND YOU GET
OUT OF HERE.
LET'S SEND YOU -- WHERE DO YOU LIKE IN AFRICA?
THAT IS NOT WHERE YOU ARE GOING.
>>BY THE WAY, THINK ABOUT IT.
WHY IS THAT GUY DOING IT?
IS IT
JUST TO SEND A MESSAGE?
PARTLY, BECAUSE THE NEXT GUY IS NOT
GOING TO SEND THAT SAME MEMO.
HE KNOWS, I DON'T WANT TO BE SENT
TO, YOU KNOW, BOTSWANA OR WHEREVER.
>>I CAN'T TELL YOU, BECAUSE SOMEONE WOULD FIGURE OUT WHO IT IS.
>>THE OTHER REASON HE IS DOING IT IS BECAUSE HE DOESN'T WANT
THAT GUY SENDING ANOTHER MEMO THAT SAYS THE SAME THING,
BECAUSE THAT MEANS HE JUST GOT TWO MEMOS IN A ROW SAYING THAT
SAUDIS ARE FUNDING TERRORISM.
SO HE HAS GOT TO GET HIM OUT OF
THERE, THE PROBLEM IS, THIS GUY IS TELLING THE TRUTH AND THAT IS
INCONVENIENT FOR US BECAUSE WE CLAIM THE SAUDIS ARE OUR TOP
ALLY.
THAT IS WHY YOU GET THE DRIVE FOR FALSE INFORMATION.
MEANWHILE, JOHN ALLEN COMES OUT IN PUBLIC AND SAYS ISIS IS
LOSING.
OH, I SEE, IT IS THAT SIMPLE.
BASED ON WHAT?
THEY ARE
NOT LOSING IT ALL.
EVERYTHING WE'RE DOING, UNFORTUNATELY, IS
HELPING THEIR CAUSE IN A COMPLETELY COUNTERPRODUCTIVE
WAY, INCLUDING THE ORIGINAL INVASION OF IRAQ, INCLUDING THE
BOMBING WE ARE DOING NOW.
IT IS NOT WORKING.
BY THE WAY, OBAMA MADE THE SAME MISTAKE THAT GEORGE BUSH
MADE ALL THROUGHOUT.
WE ARE MAKING PROGRESS.
>> ALL OBAMA HAS GOING FOR HIM IS HE IS NOT MAKING THE
MISTAKE ON A GRANDER SCALE.
>>IT IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT, BECAUSE WHEN I WAS SPEAKING WITH
HIM ABOUT THE SITUATION, HE SAID ESSENTIALLY SINCE WE PULLED OUT
OF IRAQ, THE U.S. HAS BEEN HANDS-OFF.
I WAS LIKE, ARE YOU
KIDDING ME?
HE IS LIKE NO, THE SAUDIS AND OTHER PEOPLE GIVE
US TARGETS, WE LET THE SAUDIS DO IT ALL.
ONCE THE ARAB SPRING
CAME, WE SAID, WE DON'T WANT TO GET INVOLVED IN THIS.
SAUDI
ARABIA, YOU ARE ARAB.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
>>ISN'T THAT LARGELY WHAT WE WANTED FOR A LONG TIME?
IS FOR US TO NOT BE INTIMATELY INVOLVED IN EVERY AIRSTRIKE
AGAINST --
>>I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD BE INTIMATELY INVOLVED, BUT AT THE
SAME TIME I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD BE PROVIDING THE SAUDIS
WITH EVERYTHING THEY NEED TO BASICALLY SLAUGHTER THE YEMENIS,
OR FUND THE MURDER OF ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE UP IN SYRIA.
>>BY THE WAY, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MODERATE REBELS FIGHTING
ASSAD?
REMEMBER THAT FICTION THEY CAME UP WITH --
>>HAVE $50 BILLION TO TRAIN 15 GUYS?
15 GUYS, THREE OF WHOM
WERE KILLED, FOUR WENT TO AL NUSRA, AND THE OTHERS WERE
LIKE, FUCK THIS.
>>I ASSUME THEY ARE FLYING AROUND IN IRON MAN SUITS, FOR
$50 BILLION.
>>WHAT DOCUMENTARY DID I SEE IT IN, I DON'T REMEMBER, BUT
THE AMBASSADOR TO SYRIA GENUINELY BELIEVED WE HAD
AN OPPORTUNITY TO FUND MODERATE REBELS.
>>BEFORE EVERYTHING GOT SO BAD.
>>SO THERE WAS A POINT, AND HE WAS INSISTENT, HE IS STILL
INSISTENT, THAT HE QUIT BECAUSE WE DIDN'T DO IT.
HE THOUGHT YOU
HAVE LOST YOUR OPPORTUNITY AND THAT'S THAT.
>>THIS IS NOT A WORLD THAT SUPPORTS A LOT OF
MODERATION IN REBELLIONS.
>>THERE WAS A TIME, BEFORE -- THIS WHOLE THING BECAME THE WAY
IT DID BECAUSE YOU HAD ASSAD MURDERING TENS OF THOUSANDS
BEFORE THERE WAS A CIVIL WAR, EVERYBODY WHO WAS PROTESTING.
AND OF COURSE THE INTERNATIONAL JIHADISTS COME IN.
I DON'T THINK
YOU HAVE A LOT OF THE PROBLEMS TODAY IF THE EUROPEANS HAD DEALT
WITH BOSNIA WHEN IT BEGAN INSTEAD OF LETTING IT GRIND ON
FOR THREE YEARS.
MUSLIMS GETTING SLAUGHTERED BY SERBIAN, CROATIAN
FORCES.
>>SO DOES IT MATTER THAT ISIS IS WINNING?
>>WE SHOULD ALSO BEAR IN MIND, THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
THESE REPORTS ARE BEING MANIPULATED, WE ARE GETTING A
ROSIER PICTURE, THEN IT IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE SITUATION THAT
THEY ARE SAYING.
THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEY ARE
LOSING BEING WRONG, AND THEY ARE KICKING EVERYONE'S ASS 100%.
THE
FACTORS WE TALKED ABOUT IN THE BEGINNING WHEN THEY STARTED TO
TAKE OVER TERRITORY IN IRAQ AND SYRIA, THIS IS DISTINCT FROM AL
QAEDA BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO TAKE AND HOLD TERRITORY, TERRITORY
THAT CAN BE ATTACKED WITH TRADITIONAL WEAPONS AND FORCES
IN A WAY THAT AL QAEDA AND OTHER TERRORIST GROUPS THAT DON'T HAVE
TO PHYSICALLY HOLD TERRITORY COULDN'T.
THAT THEY NEED TO FUND
AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF INFRASTRUCTURE IN A WAY THAT
MOST TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS DON'T.
THAT REMAINS TRUE, AND WE
HAVE AT TIMES TAKEN TERRITORY FROM ISIS, OR AT LEAST REPORTS
SAY, ALTHOUGH WHO KNOWS IF THEY ARE ACCURATE.
IT DOES NOT
MEAN THAT BECAUSE THEY WERE MANIPULATED, THEY ARE
FUCKING GOING TO TAKE OVER ALL OF SYRIA TOMORROW.
>> LUCKILY I HAVE THE ANSWER.
YES, JOHN IS RIGHT, THEY HAVE
NOT BEEN ABLE TO PROGRESS AS MUCH AS THEY WERE BEFORE WE WENT
IN.
AND YOU CAN TELL NOT BASED ON BULLSHIT PRESS RELEASES, BUT
BASED ON THE FACTS ON THE GROUND.
THEY COULDN'T TAKE
KOBANI.
A TRIED, THEY COULDN'T, WE STOPPED THEM THERE A LITTLE BIT.
THEY HAD OTHER REASONS WHY THEY WANTED IT, THAT ENDED UP BEING A
SUCCESS IN OTHER WAYS, THAT IS TOO LONG A CONVERSATION BUT AT
LEAST THEY COULDN'T TAKE IT.
BUT WHAT IS AMAZING IS AFTER ALL
THIS TRAINING, MONEY, WEAPONS, DRONE STRIKES, BOMBING, 2000
BOMBING RUNS OVER ISIS, THEY STILL HOLD MOSTLY THE SAME
EXACT TERRITORY THEY HELD BEFORE.
WHICH MEANS IT IS CLOSE TO A SPECTACULAR FAILURE.
>>SO WHAT JOHN ALLEN SHOULD BE SAYING IS, WE HAVE TIED ISIS.
>>AT BEST, WE HAVE TIED ISIS.
BUT THE REAL PROBLEM IS NOT IF
THEY HOLD FALLUJA OR THE THEY DON'T HOLD FALLUJA, OR IF THEY
WIN KOBANI OR IF THEY DON'T.
THE PROBLEM IS WHEN THE CANCER OF
ISIS SPREADS WITHIN SAUDI ARABIA.
AND IT IS GOING TO, AND
WHEN THAT HAPPENS, THEN WE ARE GOING TO LOSE BECAUSE IF THEY
TOPPLE THE SAUDI GOVERNMENT, THEN ALL HOLY HELL WILL BREAK
OUT.
THIS SHITSTORM IS NOTHING COMPARED TO WIN ISIS, IF THEY
CAN TAKE DOWN THE ROYAL SAUDI GOVERNMENT, THAT'S IT.
>> IF YOU LIVED IN SAUDI ARABIA UNDER ISIS IF YOU ARE A
WOMAN YOU WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO DRIVE A CAR, YOU CAN GET YOUR
HEAD CHOPPED OFF, YOU MIGHT BE WHIPPED EVEN FOR SAYING THINGS.
>>YOU MIGHT LOSE A FREEDOM.
>>THAT IS THE POWER OF PROPAGANDA.
THINK ABOUT THIS AND
LET IT SINK IN.
WE NEVER, EVER PUBLICIZE ALL THE BEHEADINGS
THE SAUDI GOVERNMENT DOES OFFICIALLY, THE HANDS THEY CHOP
OFF, SO WHY DO YOU ALWAYS SEE IN THE NEWS WHAT ISIS DOES OR WHAT
IRAN DOES, BUT YOU NEVER SEE WHAT THE SAUDIS DO?
IT IS
BECAUSE WE DECIDED AS A GOVERNMENT THAT WE DON'T WANT
YOU TO SEE WHAT THE SAUDIS DO.
THINK ABOUT HOW THE MEDIA PLAYS
ALONG.
WHY ISN'T CNN BRINGING STORIES ABOUT BEHEADINGS IN SAUDI
ARABIA?
>>BECAUSE THEY ARE PAID BY THE SAUDIS.
>> THE SAUDIS DON'T PRODUCE AWESOME VIRAL VIDEOS LIKE ISIS.
>>YOU THINK IF AMERICANS SAW THE SAUDI SYSTEM OF JUSTICE IN
ACTION THEY WOULD THINK, THERE IS THE RULE OF LAW?
>>IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, ISIS CONTROLS SAUDI OIL FIELDS.
THE
REASON IT WILL BE HOLY HELL IS NOT JUST BECAUSE ISIS CONTROLS
THE TERRITORY AND THAT IS A BAD THING, IT IS, IS BECAUSE WE WILL
COME IN WITH EVERY LAST, YOU KNOW, THING WE HAVE AT OUR
DISPOSAL.
OUR MILITARY WILL TEAR DOWN THE MIDDLE EAST.
>>MAYBE.
>>MAYBE?
YOU KILL THREE SAUDI ROYALS AND WE WILL SEND EVERY FLEET
WE'VE GOT.
>>AT LEAST WE UNDERSTAND THE CAPABILITY OF THEIR
MILITARY, BECAUSE MOST OF IT IS U.S.
MANUFACTURED.
>>THEIR CAPABILITY IS NONEXISTENT.
>>THE EQUIPMENT THEY HAVE DOESN'T MATTER, WE HAD AN ARAB
OFFICER IN MY OFFICER BASIC CORPS AND THE PROBLEM
WITH THE ARABS NOT FIGHTING IS THERE OFFICER CORPS.
I AM NOT
GOING TO CARRY WATER.
PEASANTS CARRY WATER.
WELL, DUDE, YOU
HAVE GOT TO CARRY THE WATER.
>>WE HAVE TO DO THE FOX NEWS STORY, BUT I ASSURE YOU, WITHOUT
THE U.S. BACKING THE SAUDI GOVERNMENT THEY WOULD FALL
WITHIN SEVEN DAYS.
I AM NOT EVEN EXAGGERATING, SEVEN DAYS.
THEY
HAVE NO FUCKING MILITARY, THEY HAVE WONDERFUL WEAPONS THEY
COULD NOT POSSIBLY FUCKING USE.
ISIS WOULD SLIT THEIR THROATS IN
SEVEN DAYS.