Gareth Porter: US Intelligence on Syria 'cherry-picked' by proponents of proposed strike

[Catherina]

Some in US Intel. Community Reject Obama Admin Case for Syria Attack

Gareth Porter: US Intelligence on Syria 'cherry-picked' by proponents of proposed strike

As the Obama administration continues to outline its case for attacking Syria, new revelations call into question the very intelligence the White House is using to justify its actions.

Joining the Real News Network to discuss this is Gareth Porter. He's a historian and investigative journalist on U.S. foreign and military policy. He writes regularly for the Inter Press Service, and he received the U.K.-based Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in 2011 for his articles on the U.S. war in Afghanistan. His new piece published today in IPS is "Obama's Case for Syria Didn't Reflect Intel Consensus".

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/09/10-0

[Th1onein]

1. Here we go again. Remember the Office of Special Plans?

[Catherina]

2. Yes. When the MIC wants a war, the intel is never a problem n/t

[snappyturtle]

3. This is very troublesome.

I'm bothered my the brazenness. Does the administration
think this manipulation of intelligence would go un-noticed?
I'm waiting for someone to tell me not to worry that it's
part of 'the plan'....the brilliance...dimensional chess,
or the term du jour.

[2naSalit]

4. Just as I suspected.

It was simply a matter of time before this became widely known, unfortunately for the war advocates and fortunately for most of us, this came out before the first trigger was pulled.

I hope it produces the desire effect/outcome = no war.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

5. K&R. Thanks for posting ths.

Cooked and cherry picked intelligence is what led to our ILLEGAL invasion of Iraq.

How some things never seem to change.

[JDPriestly]

6. Uh Oh! This worries me.

Sounds like Obama really wanted a reason to go into Syria.

Warning: My thoughts on this are just conjecture, but could it be that Putin and Assad are insincere and simply showing interest in peace negotiations to buy time so that Putin can get more military equipment and fresher troops into the Mediterranean?

This is very troubling.

[jakeXT]

7. Would something like that be omitted ? (U.S. military confirms rebels had sarin)

U.S. military confirms rebels had sarin

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However, in a classified document just obtained by WND, the U.S. military confirms that sarin was confiscated earlier this year from members of the Jabhat al-Nusra Front, the most influential of the rebel Islamists fighting in Syria.

The document says sarin from al-Qaida in Iraq made its way into Turkey and that while some was seized, more could have been used in an attack last March on civilians and Syrian military soldiers in Aleppo.

The document, classified Secret/Noforn – “Not for foreign distribution” – came from the U.S. intelligence community’s National Ground Intelligence Center, or NGIC, and was made available to WND Tuesday.

It revealed that AQI had produced a “bench-scale” form of sarin in Iraq and then transferred it to Turkey.

http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/u-s-military-confirms-rebels-had-sarin/