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Seymour Hersh Says Hillary Approved Sending Libya's Sarin To Syrian Rebels
zero hedge ^ | 5/1/16 | tyler durden

Posted on 05/01/2016 8:11:16 PM PDT by Nachum

Authored by Eric Zuesse via Strategic-Culture.org,

The great investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, in two previous articles in the London Review of Books ("Whose Sarin?" and "The Red Line and the Rat Line") has reported that the Obama Administration falsely blamed the government of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad for the sarin gas attack that Obama was trying to use as an excuse to invade Syria; and Hersh pointed to a report from British intelligence saying that the sarin that was used didn’t come from Assad’s stockpiles. Hersh also said that a secret agreement in 2012 was reached between the Obama Administration and the leaders of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, to set up a sarin gas attack and blame it on Assad so that the US could invade and overthrow Assad.

"By the terms of the agreement, funding came from Turkey, as well as Saudi Arabia and Qatar; the CIA, with the support of MI6, was responsible for getting arms from Gaddafi’s arsenals into Syria."

Hersh didn’t say whether these 'arms' included the precursor chemicals for making sarin which were stockpiled in Libya, but there have been multiple independent reports that Libya’s Gaddafi possessed such stockpiles, and also that the US Consulate in Benghazi Libya was operating a "rat line" for Gaddafi’s captured weapons into Syria through Turkey. So, Hersh isn’t the only reporter who has been covering this. Indeed, the investigative journalist Christoph Lehmann headlined on 7 October 2013, "Top US and Saudi Officials responsible for Chemical Weapons in Syria" and reported, on the basis of very different sources than Hersh used, that:

"Evidence leads directly to the White House, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey, CIA Director John Brennan, Saudi Intelligence Chief Prince Bandar, and Saudi Arabia´s Interior Ministry."

And, as if that weren’t enough,

(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; crookedhillary; hillary; libya; sarin
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To: faithhopecharity

Ya gotta break a few eggs to make a caliphate.


41 posted on 05/02/2016 4:31:41 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Nachum

Tried to post this multiple times on Facebook. Every character I typed was delayed in its receipt before being accepted, then Facebook wouldn’t allow it to be posted.


42 posted on 05/02/2016 4:34:14 AM PDT by Real Cynic No More (Border Fence Obamacare!)
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To: Nachum

The media had saturated coverage of Hersch when the target was Reagan/Bush. But now, cue the crickets.


43 posted on 05/02/2016 4:45:49 AM PDT by AU72
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To: Nachum

Let’s see how fast the “Progressives” turn on Seymour Hersh.


44 posted on 05/02/2016 5:50:06 AM PDT by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in am dangerous Liberal world.)
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To: SaveFerris

Were he not, expect the sun rising in the west I would!


45 posted on 05/02/2016 6:46:42 AM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Nachum

Why can’t Seymour Hersh spend an hour and investigate who paid the $40,000 for the Trump balloon at the May Day event in LA...

Someone’s bankrolling this stuff and the MSM is too stupid to figure it out... or too vile to care.

Come on Seymour Hersh - step outside your comfort zone. Help us.


46 posted on 05/02/2016 8:04:30 AM PDT by GOPJ (Imagine the shrieking MSM outrage if Trump supporters had tried to flip a car... David French)
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To: blackdog; sheikdetailfeather

Those are really good questions and I’m afraid I don’t have any good answers. I have a sick feeling in my gut it’s not just money but ideological like sheikdetailfeather is talking about. As far as money goes there’s a lot more than arms dealing cash to be had in that region though.


47 posted on 05/02/2016 1:16:51 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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