While some intelligence experts are skeptical of President Obama’s case for bombing Syria, others trust the allegations and mock those who doubt the justification for war. Ex-CIA analyst Melvin A. Goodman is part of the latter group but agrees with the first that…
Category: Secrecy
Contrasting Reactions to Egypt, Syria
Time to Reveal US Intel on Syria
Obama’s Syrian Case Shows Cracks
Congress: Beware of Secret Briefings
Tell Kristof to Stop Lying on Syria
Exclusive: Columnist Nicholas D. Kristof has cultivated a reputation as a caring humanitarian who abhors violence, but he has now joined the ranks of liberal war hawks eager to bomb Syria, a choice that also has led him to enlist…
Is War on Syria Veering Off-Script?
Congress Denied Syrian Facts, Too
Obama Warned on Syrian Intel
Exclusive: Despite the Obama administration’s supposedly “high confidence” regarding Syrian government guilt over the Aug. 21 chemical attack near Damascus, a dozen former U.S. military and intelligence officials are telling President Obama that they are picking up information that undercuts the Official Story.
Obama’s Syrian ‘Doomsday Machine’
Exclusive: By setting in motion a possibly catastrophic plan to bomb Syria, President Obama has created what amounts to a “doomsday machine” that could detonate if not disarmed by a breakthrough on peace talks. Obama is gambling that Saudi opposition to negotiations…