The Obama administration can't handle the truth about its ISIL operations

Daily Beast:
Spies: Obama’s Brass Pressured Us to Downplay ISIS Threat
Obama seems determined to push his old "junior varsity" meme even when it is clear that the treat is much greater.
Senior military and intelligence officials have inappropriately pressured U.S. terrorism analysts to alter their assessments about the strength of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, three sources familiar with the matter told The Daily Beast. Analysts have been pushed to portray the group as weaker than the analysts believe it actually is, according to these sources, and to paint an overly rosy picture about how well the U.S.-led effort to defeat the group is going.
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This enforced delusion is very dangerous for US national security.   It is a reflection of the corrupt core of the Obama administration that hears on what it wants to hear and disregards the rest.

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