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WARNING: CIA Behind Syrian Chemical Attack For Israel, Terrorist Strikes In US Inevitable If Obama Strikes

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Secretary of State John Kerry departs for Sept. 6 trip to Europe to meet with officials to discuss Syrian crisis and other issues. (Photo Credit: U.S. State Department)

 

President Barack Obama was advised Friday by twelve former U.S. military and intelligence officials warning that his CIA director John Brennan is perpetrating a pre-Iraq-War-type fraud in which Sec. of State John Kerry is a possible co-conspirator, and retaliatory terrorist strikes on Americans are “inevitable” if Obama strikes Syria.

The officers warned Obama that intelligence upon which his “Official Syrian Story” is based is the CIA’s deliberate fraudulent intelligence, possibly a plausible denial trap, according to their letter published by Consortium News.

“CIA Director John Brennan is perpetrating a pre-Iraq-War-type fraud on members of Congress, the media, the public – and perhaps even you,” former military and intelligence officers told Obama in a letter Friday.

Obama received the letter with the subject heading, Is Syria a Trap? from the officers warning that retaliation in the form of terrorist strikes on Americans is inevitable if he strikes Syria.

“We regret to inform you that some of our former co-workers are telling us, categorically, that contrary to the claims of your administration, the most reliable intelligence shows that Bashar al-Assad was NOT responsible for the chemical incident that killed and injured Syrian civilians on August 21, and that British intelligence officials also know this,” the letter begins. “In writing this brief report, we choose to assume that you have not been fully informed because your advisers decided to afford you the opportunity for what is commonly known as ‘plausible denial’.”

Giving Obama benefit of the doubt, the officers say they saw the same thing during Bush’s presidency and do not want Obama falling for the same type of fraudulent intelligence.

“We have been down this road before – with President George W. Bush, to whom we addressed our first VIPS memorandum immediately after Colin Powell’s Feb. 5, 2003 U.N. speech, in which he peddled fraudulent ‘intelligence’ to support attacking Iraq. 

They say they chose to give President Bush “benefit of the doubt, thinking he was being misled – or, at the least, very poorly advised.”

Sec. of State John Kerry, NSA James Clapper Named in Syrian Fraud

“That Secretary of State John Kerry would invoke Clapper’s name this week in Congressional testimony, in an apparent attempt to enhance the credibility of the four-page ‘Government Assessment‘ strikes us as odd,” the former officers told Obama. “The more so, since it was, for some unexplained reason, not Clapper but the White House that released the ‘assessment.’

“This is not a fine point. We know how these things are done. Although the ‘Government Assessment’ is being sold to the media as an ‘intelligence summary,’ it is a political, not an intelligence document. The drafters, massagers, and fixers avoided presenting essential detail. Moreover, they conceded upfront that, though they pinned “high confidence” on the assessment, it still fell “short of confirmation.”

[Also see: Video Pro-Syria War Congresspersons Do NOT Want World To See]

The officers say in the letter that a “strong circumstantial case” exists that the August 21 chemical incident was a “pre-planned provocation by the Syrian opposition and its Saudi and Turkish supporters” aiming to create an incident that would bring the United States into the war.

“We are unaware of any reliable evidence that a Syrian military rocket capable of carrying a chemical agent was fired into the area. In fact, we are aware of no reliable physical evidence to support the claim that this was a result of a strike by a Syrian military unit with expertise in chemical weapons.” (Emphasis added)

CIA ‘tightly’ oversaw covert military operations in Syria

On August 13-14, 2013, Western-sponsored opposition forces in Turkey began advance preparations for a major, irregular military surge, according to the officers’ letter.

“Initial meetings between senior opposition military commanders and Qatari, Turkish and U.S. intelligence officials took place at the converted Turkish military garrison in Antakya, Hatay Province, now used as the command center and headquarters of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and their foreign sponsors,” the letter reads.

Senior opposition commanders from Istanbul pre-briefed regional commanders on an imminent escalation in the fighting due to “a war-changing development,” that, in turn, would lead to a U.S.-led bombing of Syria, according to the officers’ letter.

“At operations coordinating meetings at Antakya, attended by senior Turkish, Qatari and U.S. intelligence officials as well as senior commanders of the Syrian opposition, the Syrians were told that the bombing would start in a few days. Opposition leaders were ordered to prepare their forces quickly to exploit the U.S. bombing, march into Damascus, and remove the Bashar al-Assad government

“The Qatari and Turkish intelligence officials assured the Syrian regional commanders that they would be provided with plenty of weapons for the coming offensive. And they were. 

“A weapons distribution operation unprecedented in scope began in all opposition camps on August 21-23. The weapons were distributed from storehouses controlled by Qatari and Turkish intelligence under the tight supervision of U.S. intelligence officers.

All for Israel

Cui Bono? In a word, “Israel.”

“Until now, it has not been quite as clear that the Netanyahu government in Israel has equally powerful incentive to get Washington more deeply engaged in yet another war in the area,” the letter reads. “But with outspoken urging coming from Israel and those Americans who lobby for Israeli interests, this priority Israeli objective is becoming crystal clear.”

This week, Press TV conducted an interview with Kevin Barrett, author and Middle East expert from Madison, about US Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent remarks, rehashing Washington’s baseless allegations that Syria had used chemical weapons against civilians, and Israel benefitting the most if Obama strikes Syria. 

 

Inevitable Retaliation

The twelve former officers have stated that retaliatory terrorist strikes on Americans in the United States is “inevitable” if Obama strikes Syria.

They told Obama, “We hope your advisers have warned you that retaliation for attacks on Syrian are not a matter of IF, but rather WHERE and WHEN. Retaliation is inevitable. 

“For example, terrorist strikes on U.S. embassies and other installations are likely to make what happened to the U.S. ‘Mission’ in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, look like a minor dust-up by comparison. 

They referred to a recent article by former Col. Ann Wright that addresses retaliation, Possible Consequences of a U.S. Military Attack on Syria – Remembering the U.S. Marine Barracks Destruction in Beirut, 1983.

Noteworthy is that the letter was drafted by some of the most respected intelligence personnel in the United States. They signed the letter, “For the Steering Group, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity”:      

Thomas Drake, Senior Executive, NSA (former)
Philip Giraldi, CIA, Operations Officer (ret.)
Matthew Hoh, former Capt., USMC, Iraq & Foreign Service Officer, Afghanistan
Larry Johnson, CIA & State Department (ret.)
W. Patrick Lang, Senior Executive and Defense Intelligence Officer, DIA (ret.)
David MacMichael, National Intelligence Council (ret.)
Ray McGovern, former US Army infantry/intelligence officer & CIA analyst (ret.)
Elizabeth Murray, Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Middle East (ret.)
Todd Pierce, US Army Judge Advocate General (ret.)
Sam Provance, former Sgt., US Army, Iraq
Coleen Rowley, Division Council & Special Agent, FBI (ret.)
Ann Wright, Col., US Army (ret); Foreign Service Officer (ret.)
 

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