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Showing Original Post only (View all)Who wrote the "U.S. Government Assessment" released today? [View all]
This is a strange document to be released. It has no heading of a department or an agency. It doesn't say who it was written to, or for. It doesn't have an author or authors. It is unsigned. There is nothing official to it.
It is a "summary of U.S. Intelligence Community's analysis of what took place." Was it written by them or second-hand by another?
It is wholly unsourced and based on either secret intelligence that can't be revealed or on what is already on the public airwaves.
Here it is: http://www.scribd.com/doc/164267580/U-S-Government-Assessment-of-the-Syrian-Government%E2%80%99s-Use-of-Chemical-Weapons
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It was released through the State Department, but its most significant sourcing is Israeli
leveymg
Aug 2013
#1
It was also released by the State Department. I don't have a clue who wrote it. n/t
Tx4obama
Aug 2013
#10
Not good enough. We need names, ranks, dossiers! We are investigatin' here!
Pretzel_Warrior
Aug 2013
#24
It tells us less than zero that wasn't available open-sourced already. Considerably less.
leveymg
Aug 2013
#12
"What I did during my Summer vacation - got the United States into a Mideast War."
leveymg
Aug 2013
#23
Why anyone would believe anything the US government puts out about war is beyond me n/t
eridani
Aug 2013
#26
Normally a report would have the name of the department and analysts that compiled it.
Jesus Malverde
Aug 2013
#29