Lloyd Austin has distinguished record of “fixing” intelligence. In 2015, over 50 military analysts in formal complaint to Pentagon IG accused him of changing their intel to fit US claims of progress against ISIS. Biden tin-eared warning of this on Ukraine:
https://original.antiwar.com/Veteran-Intelligence-Professionals-for-Sanity2/2022/09/05/veteran-intelligence-professionals-ukraine-decision-time-for-biden/