Trump administration says new evidence discredits Russia’s claims on chemical attack

Washington Post ^ | 11 Apr 17 | Missy Ryan and Greg Jaffe

[elhombrelibre]

The Trump administration broadened its assault on Russia’s military involvement in Syria on Tuesday, offering new evidence that U.S. officials said showed that Moscow’s explanation for a deadly April 4 chemical attack was false.

The new details from a declassified U.S. assessment add to tensions with Russia just as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson makes his first visit to Moscow and presses the Kremlin to drop its support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

[butterdezillion]

Who reported locally? Who tested the victims? Was it the “doctor” who made the videos - a convicted terrorist?

Was the sigint done by the same people who have the capability of fabricating communications and putting anybody else’s fingerprints on those communications?

I have no reason to believe any of those actors. In fact, there are very few entities involved with the US government that I would believe without doing some serious investigation first.

And THAT is the biggest crisis we face. Nobody is believable so the best any wise person can be is agnostic on most things the US government says.

[butterdezillion]

Didn’t that terrorist doctor who made the videos (in which one guy was laughing until he saw that the camera had panned over to him - so he then started acting sad) say that he had sarin samples? And we know that Hillary provided sarin to the “rebels”, so tissue samples from people who were hit with sarin don’t prove WHO DELIVERED sarin at all. In fact, it sounds like this “doctor” had, from the very beginning, the plan of providing these “tissues”. Not exactly what I’d expect a doctor to be talking about as he deals with a massive SURPRISE attack.

Assad supposedly didn’t have any sarin, according to the “watchdogs” overseeing his disarmament. By contrast, the “rebels” had US-provided sarin.

As long as the watchdogs got it wrong and Assad WASN’T 100% WMD-free as John Kerry said, it could have been EITHER entity that delivered sarin to these victims.

Are there any genuinely independent sources for any of this “evidence”?

[JudgemAll]

What is so far fetched that Assad and Putin actually worked for Obama, pretending there were no chemical weapons to help him in his elections?

Pro Putin people ironicaly paint themselves in a corner that absolves democrats of misdeeds of collaboration with enemies