US’s evidence on Syria, fabricated: Retired CIA analyst
Elements within the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have fabricated intelligence to implicate the Syrian government in the recent chemical attack in Syria and cater for Washington’s case for launching strikes on the Middle Eastern country, says a retired CIA analyst, Ray McGovern. ■ He made the remark in an interview with Russia Today (RT) channel on Monday amid the US rhetoric of war against Syria. The US has been intensively campaigning for strikes on Syria since August 21, when the militants operating inside the Arab country and its foreign-backed opposition claimed that over a thousand people had been killed in a government chemical attack on suburban Damascus. The Syrian government categorically rejected the accusation. The US has all along the way been insisting that it has strong “evidence” against the Syrian government while refusing repeated calls to release it publicly.
“The media is drumbeating for the war (on Syria) just as before Iraq,” McGovern said. “And they don’t want to hear that the evidence is very very flimsy. They don’t want to hear that people within the CIA - senior people, with great access to this information - assure us, the veterans, that there’s no conclusive evidence that Assad ordered those chemical incidents on August 21.”