of thin air intel analysis about isis. inventing optimistic accounts about how the war on terror is going. your reaction? >> a lot of this is still speculative but it wouldn't surprise me. if there is top down pressure the white house, we heard of politicalization of intel before to say what he can't make it sound like this enemy is too bad. so let's soften the tone. minimize the numbers and make it look like a manageable problem. this is what the left accused president bush of doing before the iraq war. but in this case we are getting reports with a vicious enemy like isis we are under playing it. you can't have politicized intelligence. gregg: if you were saying military officials would never lie about a war. remember the pentagon papers case in which the johnson administration and members of the military at at pentagon