Remember this past summer how our Nobel Peace Prize-winning President and all of the chatter class were banging the drumbeat for war with Syria? The “smoking gun” being that a new dictator “gassed his own people.” It was BS, according to legendary journalist Seymour Hersh.
from DemocracyNow.org:
A new report says the Obama administration may have misled the public on the chemical attack in Ghouta, Syria, earlier this year. Writing in the London Review of Books, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh says the Obama administration “cherry-picked intelligence” to justify its threatened attack on the Assad regime, which it ultimately never carried out.
Hersh says the administration failed to disclose it knew Syrian rebels in the al-Nusra Front had the ability to produce chemical weapons. Evidence obtained in the days after the attack was also allegedly distorted to make it appear it was gathered in real time. We’ll have more on this story with Seymour Hersh after headlines.
