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Trump Withholds Syria-Sarin Evidence
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The flight was launched in Jordan from a Saudi-Israeli special operations base for supporting Syrian terrorist.
rump Withholds Syria-Sarin Evidence
Despite President Trumps well-known trouble with the truth, his White House now says trust us on its Syrian-sarin charges while withholding the proof that it claims to have, reports Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
April 12/13, 2017 "Information Clearing House" - "Consortium News" - After making the provocative and dangerous charge that Russia is covering up Syrias use of chemical weapons, the Trump administration withheld key evidence to support its core charge that a Syrian warplane dropped sarin on a northern Syrian town on April 4.
A four-page white paper, prepared by President Trumps National Security Council staff and released by the White House on Tuesday, claimed that U.S. intelligence has proof that the plane carrying the sarin gas left from the Syrian military airfield that Trump ordered hit by Tomahawk missiles on April 6.
The paper asserted that we have signals intelligence and geospatial intelligence, but then added that we cannot publicly release all available intelligence on this attack due to the need to protect sources and methods.
Im told that the key evidence was satellite surveillance of the area, a body of material that U.S. intelligence analysts were reviewing late last week even after the Trump-ordered bombardment of 59 Tomahawk missiles that, according to Syrian media reports, killed seven or eight Syrian soldiers and nine civilians, including four children.
Yet, it is unclear why releasing these overhead videos would be so detrimental to sources and methods since everyone knows the U.S. has this capability and the issue at hand if it gets further out of hand could lead to a nuclear confrontation with Russia.
In similarly tense situations in the past, U.S. Presidents have released sensitive intelligence to buttress U.S. government assertions, including John F. Kennedys disclosure of U-2 spy flights in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and Ronald Reagan revealing electronic intercepts after the Soviet shoot-down of Korean Airlines Flight 007 in 1983.
Yet, in this current case, as U.S.-Russian relations spiral downward into what is potentially an extermination event for the human species, Trumps White House insists that the world must trust it despite its record of consistently misstating facts.
In the case of the April 4 chemical-weapons incident in the town of Khan Sheikhoun, which reportedly killed scores of people including young children, I was told that initially the U.S. analysts couldnt see any warplanes over the area in Idlib province at the suspected time of the poison gas attack but later they detected a drone that they thought might have delivered the bomb.
A Drone Mystery
According to a source, the analysts struggled to identify whose drone it was and where it originated. Despite some technical difficulties in tracing its flight path, analysts eventually came to believe that the flight was launched in Jordan from a Saudi-Israeli special operations base for supporting Syrian rebels, the source said, adding that the suspected reason for the poison gas was to create an incident that would reverse the Trump administrations announcement in late March that it was no longer seeking the removal of President Bashar al-Assad.
If indeed that was the motive and if the sources information is correct the operation would have been successful, since the Trump administration has now reversed itself and is pressing Russia to join in ousting Assad who is getting blamed for the latest chemical-weapons incident.
Presumably, however, the geospatial intelligence cited in the four-page dossier could disprove this and other contentions if the Trump administration would only make its evidence publicly available.
The dossier stated, Our information indicates that the chemical agent was delivered by regime Su-22 fixed-wing aircraft that took off from the regime-controlled Shayrat Airfield. These aircraft were in the vicinity of Khan Shaykhun approximately 20 minutes before reports of the chemical attack began and vacated the area shortly after the attack.
So, that would mean assuming that the dossier is correct that U.S. intelligence analysts were able to trace the delivery of the poison gas to Assads aircraft and to the airfield that Trump ordered attacked on April 6.
Still, it remains a mystery why this intelligence assessment is not coming directly from President Trumps intelligence chiefs as is normally the case, either with an official Intelligence Estimate or a report issued by the Director of National Intelligence
