Did Obama Administration Leaks Already Spoil The Syria Attack? -- Yochi Dreazen, Foreign Policy
Former top officers are baffled by Washington's telegraphing of its strike on Assad.
U.S. airstrikes into Syria will begin within days and involve Tomahawk cruise missiles fired by American warships in the eastern Mediterranean. They will last less than a week and target a limited number of Syrian military installations. And they will be designed to send a stern message to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, not force him from power.
That's the word coming from some in the Obama administration -- the White House swears it's not them. And while Obama's aides publicly insist that the President hasn't made a final decision about whether to attack Syria, anonymous officials within his administration are leaking a strikingly large amount of detailed information about the timing, duration and scope of the potential military intervention. The flood of details raises a pair of related questions. Is the administration deliberately trying to telegraph its plans for a strike? And if so, why?
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My Comment: I have been watching and covering the White House since the 1980s .... and I have never seen as many leaks and intel being disseminated from any other administration bar none than this one. And what is even more shocking .... is that they are not being held accountable for it.
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Well, Obama did promise a more transparent White House... LOL
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