Obama Administration Lied on Syria Gas Attack - The Wire

Fra Pulitzer vinderen Seymour Hersh

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13/12/2013

Fra Pulitzer vinderen Seymour Hersh. Det kommer selvfølgelig ikke som nogen overraskelse, men her et uddrag:

"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 analysed in real time, as the attack was happening. The distortion, he said, reminded him of the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, when the Johnson administration reversed the sequence of National Security Agency intercepts to justify one of the early bombings of North Vietnam. The same official said there was immense frustration inside the military and intelligence bureaucracy: ‘The guys are throwing their hands in the air and saying, “How can we help this guy” – Obama – “when he and his cronies in the White House make up the intelligence as they go along?”’