UN Inspectors Confirm Syria Chemical Attack

[Jesus Malverde]

1. Goodman interviews Hersh

This comes as a major new article casts doubts on the veracity of the Obama administration’s claims that only the Assad regime could have carried out the attacks in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta earlier this year. Writing in the London Review of Books, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh argues the Obama administration, quote, "cherry-picked intelligence to justify a strike against Assad." He reports U.S. was also aware that al-Nusra, a militant group fighting in Syria’s civil war, had, quote, "mastered the mechanics of creating sarin and was capable of manufacturing it in quantity."

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/9/seymour_hersh_obama_cherry_picked_intelligence