If you've been following this story about how the CENTCOM intelligence office cooked the books to downplay the growth and threat represented by the Islamic State, the latest on the scandal takes on a surreal quality. Carolyn Stewart, an army officer who helped identify ISIS targets, was fired for cursing twice in the course of a year.  Stewart was one of the intelligence officers who helped expose CENTCOM's effort to alter intelligence reports to match public statements on ISIS coming from the White House. At the center of the controversy is the top civilian in CENTCOM intelligence whom the army inspector general is looking at as one of the primary culprits in the scandal. Daily Beast: The woman at the center of the case makes a now-familiar allegation: that the same military officials who cherry-picked information about the ISIS war and downplayed the terror group’s rising threat also selectively picked information about her. The Pentagon inspector...(Read Full Post)