{"id":24252,"date":"2017-04-12T21:24:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T01:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24252"},"modified":"2017-04-12T21:24:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T01:24:47","slug":"white-house-claims-on-syria-chemical-attack-obviously-false-mit-professor-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/04\/12\/white-house-claims-on-syria-chemical-attack-obviously-false-mit-professor-video\/","title":{"rendered":"White House claims on Syria chemical attack \u2018obviously false\u2019 \u2013 MIT professor (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>RT<\/em> has the report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/384520-postol-report-sarin-syria\/\" target=\"_blank\">White House claims on Syria chemical attack \u2018obviously false\u2019 \u2013 MIT professor (VIDEO)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the US &#8220;intelligence&#8221; report, here is what the MIT professor had to say.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe report \u201ccontains absolutely no evidence that this attack was the result of a munition being dropped from an aircraft,\u201d wrote Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Professor Theodore Postol, who reviewed it and put together a 14-page assessment, which he provided to RT on Wednesday.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is the video that is attached to the article.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8BAzQwOepcU\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Being a graduate of MIT, I don&#8217;t feel the need to bow down to the &#8216;authority&#8221; of a &#8220;respected&#8221; university.  I know who some of the largest benefactors of MIT are.  For instance MIT and I totally disagree on the appropriateness of their accepting money from the Koch brothers.<\/p>\n<p>The point of seeing the video and reading the report is to judge the soundness of the analysis.  I don&#8217;t just assume it on &#8220;credentials&#8221;.  At least it seems to show that there is still some academic freedom at MIT, despite the inroads of the Koch brothers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RT has the report White House claims on Syria chemical attack \u2018obviously false\u2019 \u2013 MIT professor (VIDEO). Speaking about the US &#8220;intelligence&#8221; report, here is what the MIT professor had to say. The report \u201ccontains absolutely no evidence that this attack was the result of a munition being dropped from an aircraft,\u201d wrote Massachusetts Institute [&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":{"0":"post-24252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24252","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=24252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24253,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24252\/revisions\/24253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}