The Pentagon is not responding to harsh criticism in a report from congressional Republicans that concluded that intelligence assessments produced by U.S. Central command were routinely edited by higher-ups to present a more optimistic picture of progress in the war against the Islamic State.

A Pentagon spokesman says the department will not have any comment on the specific allegations in the report while it awaits the results of its own investigation by the independent Department of Defense inspector general, who is looking at the same issue of whether intelligence was “cooked” by senior officers over the objection of Central Command analysts.

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