[originaltext] [1]Defense officials in the United States have confirmed that

[1]Defense officials in the United States have confirmed that the Pentagon has created its own unit to help gather military intelligence. But they denied it’s a rival to the CIA or that they are bending the law. The group is known as the Strategic Support Branch. For about the past two years it has been providing personnel to cooperate secretly with Special Forces and other units to gather all important human intelligence for military operations. [2]The Washington Post first revealed the unit saying it’s meant to enter into CIA territory and that the Pentagon was reinterpreting US law to do it. But defense officials say the new group is merely a more focused version of things they’ve been doing before to provide better support for US military forces.
1. Why does the Pentagon create the Strategic Support Branch?
2. What’s the attitude of The Washington Post towards the Strategic Support Branch?