Leon Panetta, who served as CIA director and then secretary of defense in the Obama administration, says prosecution is warranted if ISIS intelligence reports were manipulated.
Reports in the New York Times and Daily Beast alleged senior military officials manipulated intelligence to paint a better picture of the administration's fight against ISIS.
"If that's true, and guess we'll have to wait and see what these investigations show, but if that's true that somebody deliberately manipulated intelligence and information to not only the American people but to the Congress then those individuals ought to be prosecuted," the former Obama administration official told WCBS880 this week.
"That's probably the worst offense that can be committed, is manipulating intelligence, distorting the facts, in order to tell something that simply is not true," he continued.
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