During a U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) hearing, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich expressed his serious concerns to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on the recent allegations that military officials distorted intelligence assessments about the United States' ongoing operations in Iraq against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Senator Heinrich, who also serves on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, stressed the importance of receiving objective, unbiased intelligence assessments and called for a full and open investigation into the matter. September 29, 2015.