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President Obama accused of lying over Syrian intelligence in sarin gas attack

By C. J. Refsland on December 9, 2013 • ( 0 )

‘The republic’s in trouble, we lie about everything, lying has become the staple,’ he said.

(Daily Mail) A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist has accused President Obama of lying to the American people earlier this year when he blamed President Bashar al-Assad for a sarin-gas attack that killed hundreds of Syrian civilians in August.Seymour Hersh, 76, who had previously described the official account of the 2011 raid which killed Osama Bin Laden as ‘one big lie,’ claims the current administration ‘cherry-picked intelligence’ on Syria. Hersh first gained worldwide recognition

in 1969 for exposing the My Lai Massacre and its cover-up during theVietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh has accused President Obama of lying to the American people earlier this year when he blamed President Bashar al-Assad for a sarin-gas attack that killed hundreds of Syrian civilians in August

Hersh, 76, cited conversations with military officials who spoke of their ‘immense frustration’ with the President

In early September, Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States had proof that the nerve-gas attack in Syria was made on Assad’s orders. ‘We know the Assad regime was responsible,’ President Obama told the nation in an address days after this revelation, when he said he had been pushed over the ‘red line’ to consider military intervention.
In Sunday’s London Review of Book, Hersh accused the administration of ‘cherry-picked intelligence,’ citing conversations with intelligence and military officials.

‘A former senior intelligence official told me that the Obama administration had altered the available information – in terms of its timing and sequence – to enable the president and his advisers to make intelligence retrieved days after the attack look as if it had been picked up and analyzed in real time, as the attack was happening,’ he wrote.

Some 355 people showing 'neurotoxic symptoms' died August 21 after an attack with what the U.S. now says was likely deadly sarin gas

Some 355 people showing ‘neurotoxic symptoms’ died August 21 after the deadly sarin gas attack which U.S. authorities accused forces loyal to President Assad of carrying out.

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