Whose sarin?
Seymour M. Hersh, 19 December 2013
Barack Obama did not tell the whole story when he tried to make the case that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons attack near Damascus on 21 August. In the months before the attack, the American intelligence agencies produced a series of highly classified reports, citing evidence that the al-Nusra Front, a jihadi group affiliated with al-Qaida, had mastered the mechanics of creating sarin. When the attack occurred the administration cherry-picked intelligence to justify a strike against Assad.