Rep. Alan Grayson: Syria Intelligence Manipulated -- US News and World Report
Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., who is aggressively lobbying against a military strike on Syria, says the Obama administration has manipulated intelligence to push its case for U.S. involvement in the country's two-year civil war.
Grayson made the accusation in an interview published Wednesday by The Atlantic and offered more detail in a Thursday discussion with U.S. News. He says members of Congress are being given intelligence briefings without any evidence to support administration claims that Syrian leader Bashar Assad ordered the use of chemical weapons.
Grayson said he cannot discuss the classified briefings, but noted details in the administration's public, non-classified report are being contested.
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My Comment: President Obama will need most of his fellow Democrats in Congress to support him en masse to pass his Syrian authorization resolution .... failure to do so will probably mean the end of any U.S. direct military intervention in Syria. Having said that .... it is clear from Rep. Alan Grayson that many on the left in the Democrat Party have grave doubts on what President Obama is doing, and it will not be a surprise to me if a good number of them will decied to vote no against the authorization of using force against the Assad regime.
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