Summary: US Central Command is accused of lying to the President and Congress about airstrikes and the ground fight against ISIS, obscuring the fact that Americ

Summary: US Central Command is accused of lying to the President and Congress about airstrikes and the ground fight against ISIS, obscuring the fact that America’s strategy to combat ISIS simply was not effective, as "senior officials" at Centcom were determined to "overstate the progress of American airstrikes against ISIS." In September, The Guardian reported that the tendency for Centcom to provide upbeat assessments of the fight against ISIS may have been influenced by James Clapper (Director of national intelligence), who was "said to talk nearly every day with Grove – 'which is highly, highly unusual', according to a former intelligence official." (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/10/james-clapper-pentagon-military-official http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/10/james-clapper...)