PENTAGON IGNORES GLOOMY WAR VIEW

"... the most recent National Intelligence Estimates reports... warn that large swathes of Afghanistan are at risk of falling to the Taliban. The latest NIE report, a consensus view of America's 16 intelligence agencies, concludes that the US cannot succeed in Afghanistan while Pakistan remains unwilling or unable to shut down militant safe havens in its territory or end covert support for the Afghan Taliban. The contradiction has set the US intelligence community on a collision course with the Pentagon, which was working overtime yesterday to discredit the NIE report..."
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/pentagon-ignores-gloomy-war-view/story-e6frg6so-1225971734981