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Jesus Malverde

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1. Sy Hersh Writing about Politicized Intelligence Again, Syria Edition

Reply to Jesus Malverde (Original post)

Sun Dec 8, 2013, 02:32 PM

Dec 2013

Sy Hersh has a long piece in the London Review of Books accusing the Obama Administration of cherry-picking intelligence to present its case that Bashar al-Assad launched the chemical weapons attack on August 21.

To be clear, Hersh does not say that Assad did not launch the attack. Nor does he say al-Nusra carried out the attack. Rather, he shows that:

- See more at: http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/12/08/sy-hersh-writing-about-politicized-intelligence-again-syria-edition/

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