Monday, December 9, 2013

Did The White House Lie About The Syrian Chemical Attack As Well As ‘Cherry-Picking’ Intelligence?



Whose Sarin? -- Seymour M. Hersh, London Review Of Books

Barack Obama did not tell the whole story this autumn when he tried to make the case that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons attack near Damascus on 21 August. In some instances, he omitted important intelligence, and in others he presented assumptions as facts. Most significant, he failed to acknowledge something known to the US intelligence community: that the Syrian army is not the only party in the country’s civil war with access to sarin, the nerve agent that a UN study concluded – without assessing responsibility – had been used in the rocket attack. In the months before the attack, the American intelligence agencies produced a series of highly classified reports, culminating in a formal Operations Order – a planning document that precedes a ground invasion – citing evidence that the al-Nusra Front, a jihadi group affiliated with al-Qaida, had mastered the mechanics of creating sarin and was capable of manufacturing it in quantity. When the attack occurred al-Nusra should have been a suspect, but the administration cherry-picked intelligence to justify a strike against Assad.

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More News On The Claim That The White House Lied About The Syrian Chemical Attack As Well As ‘Cherry-Picking’ Intelligence

Obama lied about Syrian chemical attack, ‘cherry-picked’ intelligence: report -- Washington Times
Seymour Hersh: Obama Told Half-Truth on Syria's Chemical Weapons -- Newsmax
Hersh: Obama "Cherry-Picked" Intelligence to Justify Assad Strike -- Gawker
Obama admin 'cherry-picked intelligence' to justify Syria strike -- RT
Obama aides deny Syria intelligence story -- USA Today
WH: Hersh report on Syria 'simply false' -- The Hill
White House Slams Pulitzer Winner’s Allegation It ‘Cherrypicked’ Evidence Against Syria -- Mediaite
New Yorker, Washington Post Passed On Seymour Hersh Syria Report --

My Comment: I am usually skeptical of almost everything that Seymour Hersh writes about .... but what I find interesting with this story is that unlike in the past when the New Yorker and Washington Post were more than eager to publish his stories on the Bush administration .... they have taken a complete pass when it comes to the Obama administration. This is just another example of this double standard.

On a side note .... Seymour Hersh's info comes from leakers within the U.S. government .... and it is clear that they are not happy with the White House's Syrian policy.

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