Anyone remember how this time last year Obama and Kerry Pushed for Bombing Syria?

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28. Could have, but this is hardly compelling.

Basically, Hersh talked to some guys known only as "the former intelligence official", "An American foreign policy expert", "a Turkish diplomat" and various other anonymous people. There some paraphrasing of second hand conversations, and a lot is made over the fact that chemical analysis couldn't prove definitively one way or another what gas was used and where it came from.


"...a former senior Defense Department official told me"

"...the former intelligence official said"

"...An American foreign policy expert who speaks regularly with officials in Washington and Ankara told me.

"...The foreign policy expert told me that the account he heard originated with Donilon. (It was later corroborated by a former US official, who learned of it from a senior Turkish diplomat.)"

"...‘We now know it was a covert action planned by Erdoğan’s people to push Obama over the red line,’ the former intelligence official said."