Eric Zuesse

America’s top expert on analyzing intelligence of the types that were involved in determining the cause of the April 4th gas-attack in Syria is Dr. Theodore Postol of MIT, and he has now thoroughly analyzed all of the ‘evidence’ that the White House alleges in its White Intelligence House Report on that event to have ‘proven’ that Syria’s government perpetrated the gas-attack. He published his third study of the alleged evidence, this time concerning the video evidence on it, on Saturday April 15th at Washington’s Blog, under the headline "Video Evidence of False Claims Made in the White House Intelligence Report of April 11, 2017”.

He says there that “the White House Intelligence Report of April 11, 2017 contains false and misleading claims that could not possibly have been accepted in any professional review by impartial intelligence experts. The White House Intelligence Report was produced by the National Security Council under the oversight of the National Security Advisor, Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster.” He is here implicitly accusing the U.S. National Security Advisor of fraud, and of a war-crime (lying to ‘justify’ an invasion), and by further implication is alleging in this study, that the U.S. President is either a fool or else is himself complicit in this manufactured ‘justification’ for his U.S. invasion of Syria and thus an international war-criminal by this act.

Dr. Postol's “Summary and Conclusions” opens by saying: “It is now clear from video evidence that the White House Intelligence Report was fabricated without input from the professional intelligence community.” In other words: it is fake, and is, moreover, an amateurish fake, an incompetent fake.

Dr. Postol has made every effort he can to get the U.S. major ‘news’media to report his findings, not only this time but earlier of the evidence regarding the 21 August 2013 Ghouta gas-attack that President Obama was calling his “red line”, but thus far only a few small-audience newsmedia such as the present one, have allowed his analyses to reach their respective publics — in other words, the U.S. Government and its ‘news’media prohibit the broad American public from having access to Dr. Postol’s analyses and findings, which show that America’s actions in Syria constitute unprovoked war-crimes, which are, moreover, crimes that might be leading to a global war between Russia and the United States — World War III, nuclear war — on cooked-up charges.

If this is not an impeachable offense, nothing is; but, America’s Congress, and America’s press, are clearly complicit in it; and, furthermore, Trump chose as his Vice President someone, Mike Pence, who was already on public record as being hostile towards Russia, and so too is the third-in-succession, Paul Ryan. The United States Government thus does now appear to be committed to fabricating a cause for war against Russia. Instead of Iraq, this time, or even just Syria this time, it would be Russia and global nuclear annihilation. This does appear to be the course on which the U.S. Government is now heading — continuing further from what Obama was doing. The only question is whether they will follow through on it. That, in turn, raises many other questions. Why are super-rich people now buying nuclear bunkers, such as here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here? Are these people investors in ‘defense’ corporations such as Lockheed Martin? Is the United States a democracy? What kind of scam is actually operating here? How wide is the network of people that are participating in it?

Dr. Postol’s most important of the three reports he has done of the White House Intelligence Report regarding the recent Syrian gas-attack was the first of his three, which I linked to in my April 13th "The Money-Quote from the Postol Report on the Recent Gas Attack in Syria”.

These reports from Dr. Postol are being ignored by the U.S. ‘news’media, as if his findings don’t even deserve to be presented to the American people, and to the International Criminal Court. And the White House, of course, also ignores them. If a nuclear war comes, then the American people (the ones who survive its direct impacts) won’t even honestly know why (except, perhaps, the billionaires and officials in those nuclear-proofed bunkers), and there will be no historians around who will be surviving and investigating to find what had actually caused it. The way Dr. Postol put it in what I labelled his “Money-Quote” was “This is a very serious matter.”

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They're Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity, and of Feudalism, Fascism, Libertarianism and Economics.
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