The Consortium News has published the open letter to the President headlined Obama Warned on Syrian Intel.
Exclusive: Despite the Obama administration’s supposedly “high confidence” regarding Syrian government guilt over the Aug. 21 chemical attack near Damascus, a dozen former U.S. military and intelligence officials are telling President Obama that they are picking up information that undercuts the Official Story.
MEMORANDUM FOR: The President
FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
SUBJECT: Is Syria a Trap?
Precedence: IMMEDIATE
We regret to inform you that some of our former co-workers are telling us, categorically, that contrary to the claims of your administration, the most reliable intelligence shows that Bashar al-Assad was NOT responsible for the chemical incident that killed and injured Syrian civilians on August 21, and that British intelligence officials also know this. In writing this brief report, we choose to assume that you have not been fully informed because your advisers decided to afford you the opportunity for what is commonly known as “plausible denial.”
Just as I was about to think that maybe there might be some credibility in the President’s case, the other side rolls out some heavy artillery (if true). Perhaps this is just fake mockups of heavy artillery to fool the other side.
As Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden seem to show, whistle-blowers are the only source of honest information about what our government is doing. No wonder President Obama has been trying so hard to intimidate any would-be whistle-blower.
Mardy,
“Frustrating as all hell.”
You put that well. I’ll follow up on your mention of The Atlantic article. I may have seen mention of it before, but there are so many things to read about Syria that I may not have followed that trail the first time. Every time I pick on one loose thread a whole sweater comes unraveled.
Well, Steve, I’m glad you’re continuing with this effort at spreading doubt. I just found a long article by William R. Polk in the Atlantic which you may have already seen. I got it from Bill Moyers “Trying to make sense of Syria? Here’s our essential reader”. It takes time and effort to get educated here, something most people, including myself, are unwilling to spend. We keep getting hit in the media by conclusions without the details supporting them. Frustrating as all hell.