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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBeyohd a reasonable doubt?
The intelligence assessment sent to Congress by President Obama supports the president's request that Congress authorize military action against Syria. The assessment consists of a series of assertions about evidence available without any display of that evidence. The materials are "classified," according to the document. That means we won't see the evidence. It also means that Congress can't investigate or debate the quality and reliability of the evidence in public since that would reveal classified information.
http://agonist.org/does-obama-have-evidence-to-blame-syria-for-chemical-weapons-attack/
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Beyohd a reasonable doubt? (Original Post)
autorank
Sep 2013
OP
Comparing an empty vial (intentional lie) to 1000 dead civilians (reality) is disgusting.
KittyWampus
Sep 2013
#6
Rules of the road are that it's OK to question the response NOT OK to question....
Junkdrawer
Sep 2013
#3
there are committees in Congress that will be privy to intelligence and can vet it.
KittyWampus
Sep 2013
#4
mike_c
(36,269 posts)1. it's all theater anyway....
We're being taken for a ride, and we've been here before.
leftstreet
(36,098 posts)2. 'There are no photographs, diagrams, or exhibits'
Amateurs! Don't they know how to do this?
DURec
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)6. Comparing an empty vial (intentional lie) to 1000 dead civilians (reality) is disgusting.
former9thward
(31,936 posts)7. Why do you refuse to wait for the UN report?
You know, unlike the U.S., the people who were actually there.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)3. Rules of the road are that it's OK to question the response NOT OK to question....
whether Assad did it.
Well on its way here to being treated as a conspiracy theory worthy of locking.
RT is now an "unreliable source" in LBN.
Get Your War On.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)4. there are committees in Congress that will be privy to intelligence and can vet it.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)5. Like the 28 pages about Saudi Arabia and 9/11?
former9thward
(31,936 posts)8. The same committees that vetted the Iraq WMD intelligence.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)9. Why don't you look into who is on those committees and get back to us all. Or are glib non-comments
all you care to contribute to the discussion?
former9thward
(31,936 posts)10. Kerry vetted the Iraq WMD intelligence.
Nothing more need be said. "Get back to us all"? Who is us? The minority who supports another Mid East military adventure?
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)11. So you are simply skipping like a broken record. Gotcha!