obviously buying new tankers, sourcing new tankers will be difficult and indeed, sourcing new drivers will be difficult, because obviously people don t want to get caught in the air strikes they re being threatened with. you argued that the united states delayed attacks on the oil infrastructure for too long. you think this should have been happening much sooner? i do. i can understand why they delayed. these tankers are people s livelihoods, the oil refineries provide employment to people who have nothing to do with isis. and of course we hope one day this territory is returned to the people of iraq and syria. but clearly, patience is rubbing out, cutting off this vital supply of finance needs to be addressed and it s being addressed from the air. there s an article from the atlantic that says, analysts have found that bank robbery, extortion, and taxation together account for a higher proportion
decisive in intel or military decisions made by the u.s. government. okay. jim miklaszewski at the pentagon, thanks so much. reporter: you bet. president obama addressed the allegations of skewed intelligence in malaysia yesterday just before arriving back in the u.s. i don t know the details of this. what i do know is my expectation which is the highest fidelity to facts, data, the truth. it is not as i ve been receiving wonderfully rosy glowing portraits of what s happening in iraq and syria in the last year and a half. joining me is lieutenant colonel anthony schafer. thank you for being with us. you served as an intelligence officer which jim just mentioned. what is your take on this? does this report ring true? does it surprise you? no. it doesn t. i know many of the folks involved. senior intelligence officer when
we last saw each other standing in paris the other day. talk to me about what it would mean if the british did, in fact, join the effort here. well, you know, i think what we are looking to do is step up the level of attacks against isis targets, particularly in syria. the u.s. has been doing like four sorties a day for the last year and a half. not a huge number of hits. right. french stepped that up dramatically to bring the british in, you can step it up even more and move from a drizzle of bombing to a real thunderstorm. i think that s the idea. whether they ll do it, i don t know. we were trying to look at public polling in eng tland see how much support hee s got. some polls showed pretty big, wide support for being more involved. well, you know, public opinion is fickle on these things. right. looking back a couple of months ago, everybody s worried
deep. this grandmother told me, her husband and sons are all missing. all of the men are gone? isis also took the young girls, she said, her daughters and granddaughters. when the islamic state attacked the yadiedy people last year, the scenes of desperation on a mountain top were only part of the story. hundreds of thousands were chased from their land, their ancient religion made them targets. brothers, fathers, uncles, were killed. daughters and sisters put in prison, to be handed out to fighters as sex slaves. spoils of war. abin, whose name is changed and face hidden to protect her identity, told me, they took the youngest and most beautiful first. weeks after her capture, she said she was taken to a fighter s house in syria.
likely there would be a serious shake-up within the intelligence community there at central command which is in command of all military operations in iraq and afghanistan. now, the officials stress that while cent com has its own intelligence apparatus, of 17 intelligence agencies in the united states, cent-com is not one, it is not an intel command. it is a military command. and they point out that other agencies, particularly the cia, were deeply embedded in iraq and syria at the time that isis suddenly made its move into iraq unexpectedly taking much of the u.s. military and intel community by surprise. so while there is some culpability perhaps on the part of intel officials at cent-com their investigation would not have reached upper intelligence agencies or got to the white house if it wasn t pass through