Posted on 09/05/2013 5:37:12 PM PDT by don-o
Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., who is aggressively lobbying against a military strike on Syria, says the Obama administration has manipulated intelligence to push its case for U.S. involvement in the country's two-year civil war.
Grayson made the accusation in an interview published Wednesday by The Atlantic and offered more detail in a Thursday discussion with U.S. News. He says members of Congress are being given intelligence briefings without any evidence to support administration claims that Syrian leader Bashar Assad ordered the use of chemical weapons.
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He points to an article published by The Daily Caller that alleges the communications actually showed Syrian officers were surprised by the alleged chemical weapon attack. The communications, according to unnamed sources paraphrased in article, were intercepted by Israeli intelligence and "doctored so that it leads a reader to just the opposite conclusion."
"What they say in The Daily Caller is that [intercepted communications] would lead one to the opposite conclusion," Grayson said. "I don't know if it's right or wrong, [but] there's a very simple way to find out, that's for the administration to show me and other members of Congress" translated transcripts of the intercepts, he said.
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The combination of tech possessed by NRO/NSA could make it easy to send false radio data from anywhere.
Here is what I would do if I had the resources...
It would be no problem to drop a tiny software-defined-radio somewhere in Damascus and have a language expert in Langley send down any conversation they wanted the Israeli monitors on Mt Hermon to hear. (The Israelis must be monitoring from Mt Hermon as it’s the logical choice)
The signal would go out locally on normal frequencies used by Syrian officials. The SDR could be planted in Damascus by a method as simple as placing it inside some common object and simply mailing it to someone. This is a technique also useful for monitoring radio traffic in an area that cannot be picked up by an NRO sat directly because the frequency is too noisy from other sources. The SDR picks up the traffic and relays to the sat.
It reads like a cheap spy novel I know but this stuff is actually possible.
I share your sentiment. However, you and I both have more reasons than this to kick O’s ass.
BRITAIN allowed firms to sell chemicals to Syria...the UK Government has been allowing the sale of these ingredients to Syria...The chemical export licences...were only revoked six months later, when the European Union imposed tough sanctions on Assad’s regime...The Government...granting licences to companies to export to regimes such as Syria.
I think the still active duty “brass” have already abdicated their leadership roles, given the past few years of evidence.
But I am exactly that level of cynical, probably more than you can imagine.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Grayson? That guy in Florida who’s nuts?
Wow. This can’t be the same Grayson. This Grayson sounds honest and intelligent.
pentagon = pentagram
no coinky dink
Did you know that the groundbreaking for the pentagon was September 11th 1940something?
Who would have ever thought that Grayson could be talking sense.
What’s the temperature in Hell?
I feel extremely ill! Agreeing with that Pr!ck on anything is very disturbing.
Aye-yay-yay, I never thought I’d see the day when I agree with Moonbat Grayson, and he disagrees with Obama.
He must be racist. Can't stand to see a person of color as commander-in-chief of our troops, Alan?
Yes that would do it if the monitoring is just for the content of the message. However, these messages would be stored and when you check them in detail you can see the frequencies of the transmitted talk and if there are any distortions that can be compared to the other known radio transmitters etc. You can be fooled in the beginning but not after a couple of analysis. The take home message is no to trust the first analysis.
Round up the usual suspects.
This alleged transcript is the primary and really only justification the Obama Admin is relying on to attack Syria.
Rep. Greyson asks Chuck Hagle about the reports the intercept is being falsified and doctored and actually the Syrians are shocked at the attack and are trying to determine where it came from.
The big point people seem to missing is Hagle’s comment THAT HE HAS ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHAT INTERCEPTED TRANSCRIPT GREYSON IS REFERRING TO AND SEEMS GENUINELY BLINDSIDED BY GREYSON'S QUESTION.
So, according to Sec of Defense Hagle’s sworn testimony, he is completely unaware of even the existence of the primary and only piece of “evidence” tying the Syrian Government to the responsibility for the gas attack that the Obama Admin is using as justification to attack Syria.
Based on media reports, Kerry is also being less than truthful in saying that the insurgents are not asking for military action. In fact, there are credible media reports that the original target list of facilities to attack was based on a wish list supplied to the Obama Admin directly by the Syrian insurgents and not by US military professionals.
I think I have lost it. Grayson actually makes sense and I agree with him. I need a shower.
When you lose Special Ed and I agree with Alan Grayson on anything the temperature in hell must be well below zero.
Who photoshopped the fork out of his tongue?
Its the sign of the apocalypse!!!!!
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