{"id":14396,"date":"2013-09-07T14:09:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T18:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=14396"},"modified":"2013-09-07T14:09:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T18:09:34","slug":"obama-warned-on-syrian-intel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/09\/07\/obama-warned-on-syrian-intel\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Warned on Syrian Intel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Consortium News<\/em> has published the open letter to the President headlined <a title=\"The Consortium News article\" href=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2013\/09\/06\/obama-warned-on-syrian-intel\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Obama Warned on Syrian Intel<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Exclusive: Despite the Obama administration\u2019s supposedly \u201chigh confidence\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>MEMORANDUM FOR: The President<\/p>\n<p>FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)<\/p>\n<p>SUBJECT: Is Syria a Trap?<\/p>\n<p>Precedence: IMMEDIATE<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cplausible denial.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just as I was about to think that maybe there might be some credibility in the President&#8217;s case, the other side rolls out some heavy artillery (if true).\u00a0 Perhaps this is just fake mockups of heavy artillery to fool the other side.<\/p>\n<p>As Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden seem to show, whistle-blowers are the only source of honest information about what our government is doing.\u00a0 No wonder President Obama has been trying so hard to intimidate any would-be whistle-blower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Consortium News has published the open letter to the President headlined Obama Warned on Syrian Intel. Exclusive: Despite the Obama administration\u2019s supposedly \u201chigh confidence\u201d 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14397,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14396\/revisions\/14397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}