FIRST ON CNN: US intelligence suggests Syria may hide some chemical weapons

[alp227]

Updated 5:51 p.m. ET, 11/5/2013

By Barbara Starr

The United States is looking at new classified intelligence indicating the Syrian government may not fully declare its chemical weapons stockpile, CNN has learned. That would mean it will still have a secret cache of chemical weapons even after the current agreed-upon destruction effort is carried out.

The intelligence is not definitive but “there are various threads of information that would shake our confidence,” one U.S. official said. “They have done things recently that suggest Syria is not ready to get rid of all their chemical weapons.”

CNN has spoken to several U.S. officials with access to the latest intelligence on Syria, who confirmed the information. All declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the data. U.S. intelligence agencies, the Defense Department, the State Department and White House are all reviewing the information.

One official cautioned there is not yet a definitive U.S. conclusion about Syrian intentions based on this intelligence, but there is an effort to gather corroborating information and better understand what the regime may be up to.

full: http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2013/11/05/first-on-cnn-us-intelligence-suggests-syria-may-hide-some-chemical-weapons/

2002 all over again huh?

[jsr]

1. Gotta find them weapons ASAP.

[Cali_Democrat]

2. Time to drop the bombs and CNN will lead the charge!

Gotta get those low ratings up.

YEEEEEEHAWWWWWW!!!!!

[Cooley Hurd]

3. Byline: Barbara Starr. The hackiest of the hacks...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Starr#Criticism

Starr has received criticism for her reporting, having been called "a spokesperson for The Pentagon."

In June 2013 MSNBC reporter Chris Hayes ran a segment in which he argued that Starr's publication of leaked information was at least as potentially harmful to national security as those published by Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian. He noted the fact that, unlike with Greenwald, politicians and other prominent figures failed to call for Starr's prosecution on the basis that Starr's use of leaked information invariably favoured government interests, implicitly questioning Starr's independence and arguably even her integrity and status as a journalist.

[Xithras]

4. The US government has no credibility on this issue.

Show me the intelligence, or let some other country confirm it, or STFU.

NO WAR!

[Scuba]

5. They're hiding them in the Gulf of Tonkin.