Just like in a dictatorship: CENTCOM slammed for overly optimistic reports on ISIS fight

Barack Obama is the commander-in-chief of our armed forces.

During World War II the Axis powers--Nazi Germany, Japan, and Italy--fed similar rah-rah, feel-good reports to its people as they were losing to the Allies. That's what totalitarian states do.

And now the United States is doing so.

From CBS News:

According to a hard-hitting government task force report released Thursday, intelligence generated by the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) was manipulated to paint a rosier picture of the U.S. effort to combat ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

The report finds that, beginning in mid-2014, final intelligence reports issued by CENTCOM contradicted the initial internal assessments made by its own analysts, reports CBS News correspondent Jim Axelrod.

"The facts on the ground didn't match what the intelligence was saying out of the United States Central Command," said Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., a member of the task force.

The military CENTCOM is responsible for American security interests in 20 nations, stretching from Egypt through the Arabian Gulf region and into central Asia.

If this is the type of government that you want, then vote for Hillary Clinton in November.