[WAPO] Hours before President Champ announced a new U.S. military offensive against the Islamic State, one of his top counterÂterrorism officials testified to Congress that the al-Qaeda offshoot had an estimated 10,000 fighters.Appears the "top CT official" was mistaken. Is he or she still.... a "top CT official?"
The next day a new assessment arrived from the CIA: The terrorist organization's ranks had more than doubled in recent months, surging to somewhere between 20,000 and 31,500 fighters across Iraq and Syria.
Numbers doubled in 'recent months' but the Klingons never thought to mention it until last week? Ok, I got it, thanks.
The enormous discrepancy reflects, in part, significant uncertainty among U.S. intelligence agencies over the dimensions of and danger posed by America's latest Islamist adversary.
Yet another "fog of war"... or would that me WAPO throwing kak in game and screening for the White House by blaming the intelligence community? Well, somebody has to be thrown under the bus. DNI Jim Clapper, or DCI John Brennan, where art thou? Any comments in defense of your community? I thought not.