Syria Intelligence Being Manipulated EVEN MORE than in Iraq War Posted by : George Washington Post date: 09/09/2013 - White House – NOT U.S. Intelligence Agencies – Prepared Report about Syrian Chemical Weapons

The Obama administration is manipulating intelligence about Syria in exactly the same ways that the Bush administration did to justify the Iraq war.

Specifically, the Obama administration is copying Bush’s playbook of trying to kick UN weapons inspectors out of the target country so they can’t finish their investigation.

The Bush administration also famously “stove piped” information from the war hawks directly to the president – cutting out the normal vetting process by intelligence agencies.

Likewise, IPS reports today:

Contrary to the general impression in Congress and the news media, the Syria chemical warfare intelligence summary released by the Barack Obama administration Aug. 30 did not represent an intelligence community assessment, an IPS analysis and interviews with former intelligence officials reveals.

 

The evidence indicates that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper culled intelligence analyses from various agencies and by the White House itself, but that the White House itself had the final say in the contents of the document.

 

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Former intelligence officials told IPS that that the paper does not represent a genuine intelligence community assessment but rather one reflecting a predominantly Obama administration influence.

 

In essence, the White House selected those elements of the intelligence community assessments that supported the administration’s policy of planning a strike against the Syrian government force and omitted those that didn’t.

 

In a radical departure from normal practice involving summaries or excerpts of intelligence documents that are made public, the Syria chemical weapons intelligence summary document was not released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence but by the White House Office of the Press Secretary.

 

It was titled “Government Assessment of the Syrian Government’s Use of Chemical Weapons on August 21, 2013.” The first sentence begins, “The United States government assesses,” and the second sentence begins, “We assess”.

 

The introductory paragraph refers to the main body of the text as a summary of “the intelligence community’s analysis” of the issue, rather than as an “intelligence community assessment”, which would have been used had the entire intelligence community endorsed the document.

 

A former senior intelligence official who asked not to be identified told IPS in an e-mail Friday that the language used by the White House “means that this is not an intelligence community document”.

 

The former senior official, who held dozens of security classifications over a decades-long intelligence career, said he had “never seen a document about an international crisis at any classification described/slugged as a U.S. government assessment.”

 

The document further indicates that the administration “decided on a position and cherry-picked the intelligence to fit it,” he said.

“The result is not a balanced assessment of the intelligence.”

 

Greg Thielmann, whose last position before retiring from the State Department was director of the Strategic, Proliferation and Military Affairs Office in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, told IPS he has never seen a government document labeled “Government Assessment” either.

 

“If it’s an intelligence assessment,” Thielmann said, “why didn’t they label it as such?”

 

Former National Intelligence Officer Paul Pillar, who has participated in drafting national intelligence estimates, said the intelligence assessment summary released by the White House “is evidently an administration document, and the working master copy may have been in someone’s computer at the White House or National Security Council.”

 

Pillar suggested that senior intelligence officials might have signed off on the administration paper, but that the White House may have drafted its own paper to “avoid attention to analytic differences within the intelligence community.”

Comparable intelligence community assessments in the past, he observed – including the 2002 Iraq WMD estimate – include indications of differences in assessment among elements of the community.

 

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[A] “senior administration official” indicated that DNI Clapper had “approved” submissions from various agencies for what the official called “the process”. The anonymous speaker did not explain further to journalists what that process preceding the issuance of the White House paper had involved.

 

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That article suggests that the administration had originally planned for the report on intelligence to be issued by Clapper rather than the White House, apparently after reaching agreement with the White House on the contents of the paper.

 

But Clapper’s name was not on the final document issued by the White House, and the document is nowhere to be found on the ODNI website. All previous intelligence community assessments were posted on that site.

 

The issuance of the document by the White House rather than by Clapper, as had been apparently planned, points to a refusal by Clapper to put his name on the document as revised by the White House.

 

Clapper’s refusal to endorse it – presumably because it was too obviously an exercise in “cherry picking” intelligence to support a decision for war – would explain why the document had to be issued by the White House.

 

Efforts by IPS to get a comment from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence suggest strongly that Clapper is embarrassed by the way the Obama White House misrepresented the Aug. 30 document.

 

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Opponents of the proposed U.S. strike against Syria could argue that the Obama administration’s presentation of the intelligence supporting war is far more politicised than the flawed 2002 Iraq WMD estimate that the George W. Bush administration cited as part of the justification for the invasion of Iraq.

Remember, Clapper is the guy who blatantly lied to Congress and the American people about NSA spying. And even he wouldn't touch this thing with a 10-foot pole.

In addition, Daily Caller noted recently:

The Obama administration has selectively used intelligence to justify military strikes on Syria, former military officers with access to the original intelligence reports say, in a manner that goes far beyond what critics charged the Bush administration of doing in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war.

 

According to these officers, who served in top positions in the United States, Britain, France, Israel, and Jordan, a Syrian military communication intercepted by Israel’s famed Unit 8200 electronic intelligence outfit has been doctored so that it leads a reader to just the opposite conclusion reached by the original report.

And Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting points outthat - as bad as the Iraq war propaganda was - at least Colin Powell actually played the intercepted communications:

Recall that Powell played tapes of Iraqi officials supposedly talking about concealing evidence of banned weapons from inspectors–which turned out to show nothing of the kind. But Powell at least played tapes of the intercepted communication, even as he spun and misrepresented their contents–allowing for the possibility of an independent interpretation of these messages. Perhaps “mindful of the Iraq experience,” Kerry allows for no such interpretation.

Indeed, the U.S. government itself admits that it doesn’t have clear evidence that Assad was behind the chemical weapons attack, high-level intelligence officials think it might have been the rebels who used such weapons, Congress members who have seen the classified intelligence from the U.S. government are not impressed, and top chemical weapons experts are skeptical.

 

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In serious play, if a player having the move touches one of their pieces as if having the intention of moving it, then the player must move it if it can be legally moved...If a player wishes to touch a piece with the intention of adjusting its position on a square, the player must first alert their opponent of their intention by saying J'adoube or "I adjust".

There have been occasions in chess history when a player has uttered j’adoube after making a losing move in order to retract it, thus attempting to avoid the touch-move rule.

Such behaviour is regarded as cheating. The Yugoslav Grandmaster Milan Matulovi? was nicknamed "J’adoubovic" after such an incident.

Source: Wikipedia [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch-move_rule]

 

 

One of these Kings is a mess

He's feeling a great deal of stress

He came with his pecker

To play the game checkers

But Putin is now playing chess

The Limerick King

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kerry Tells Lavrov Chemical Disarmament Demand Was "Rhetorical", Not Meant To Be Proposal

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/09/2013 - 16:07

To paraphrase:

   Kerry to Syria: Turn over your chemical weapons!

   Syria to Kerry: Ok

   Kerry to Syria: I was being rhetorical. We will just bomb you anyway, as soon as we are done gassing you.

 

 

US Equity Trading Volume Hits Fresh 15-Year Low

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/09/2013 - 20:50

The apathy is deafening...

 

 

McCain Says Take The Deal; Assad Warns It's Obama's Problem: "We'll Do Anything To Prevent Another Crazy War"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/09/2013 - 20:22

The first clips from Charlie Rose's interview with Assad are being released and given the Russia-Syria discussions, Obama's skepticism, and now John McCain's 'dubious support' for "the US getting on board with Russia's proposal for Syria to hand over its chemical weapons," we thought this brief view of Assad's response was telling...

 

 

 

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US Position On Syria Devolves Into Total Chaos

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/10/2013 - 11:06

From the need to teach Syria (and all global chemical weapons using despots) a lesson they won't forget to losing 'allies' to bluffing Russia to deal-or-no-deal, strike request or no strike request, the bluster from the US administration has now devolved into total chaos. As the following headlines from the last week attest to - it seems no one knows what is really occurring. So do we want the ability to strike but but not use it? We have to strike to teach them a lesson but a political solution is preferable? We would like congressional approval but don't need it. Everything has changed and yet nothing has changed?

 

Treasury "X Date" May Hit As Soon As October 18

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/10/2013 - 10:36

One reason why the US has been able to extend its true "drop dead" cash exhaustion date has been due to an increase in tax revenues due to the payroll tax cut as well as cash inflows from the GSEs (which are set to reverse and become outflows once the latest housing dead cat bounce reverses), and cash remittances from the Fed. However, the capacity under this extended "revolver" is rapidly running out, and as of August 31, 2013, approximately $108 billion in extraordinary measures remained available for use. In a report released today, the Bipartisan Policy Center has released another analysis of just when the US will hit the "X Date" or the date on which the Treasury will not have sufficient cash to pay all of its bills in full and on time. Should there be still no deal on the debt ceiling by this date, the Treasury will be forced to prioritize payments to avoid a debt default. According to this estimate, the X Date falls anywhere between November 5 to as recently as October 18, or just over a month from now (and there has been zero real discussion in Congress over the debt ceiling hike with all the excitement over Syria).

 

Kerry, Dempsey And Hagel Continue "Strike Pitch" To House Armed Services Committee - Live Webcast

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/10/2013 - 10:19

It seems the rhetoric has not backed off one little bit... as John Kerry exclaims: "...our inaction is guaranteed to bring worse circumstances...the permissiveness of not acting now will give Assad free will to act again"

*KERRY SAYS 'WHAT ASSAD HAS DONE DIRECTLY EFFECTS' U.S. SECURITY
*KERRY SAYS OBAMA'S FIRST PRIORITY IS DIPLOMACY ON SYRIA
*KERRY SAYS 'WE NEED YOU, THE CONGRESS' TO SEND MESSAGE TO SYRIA

The fear-mongery is strong with this one...

 

Boehner's (Pre-Obama) War/Debt-Ceiling Posturing - Live Webcast

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Grab your popcorn...

 

Italy Riskier Than Spain For First Time In 18 Months

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/10/2013 - 10:00

While Spain brims with hope, amid dismal real data, as we noted earlier, Italy - despite its PMI 'proving' things are great - just missed its GDP growth expectations for the 9th of the last 10 quarters. Add in a prinkling of Berlusconi bafflement and 'the oldest bank in the world' about to be nationalized and the risks in Italian government bonds have pushed yields above their European neighbor for the first time in 18 months. The last time this huge debt-loaded nation's risk topped Spain's was in the run up to the peak in the European crisis in Q4 2011. But, of course, we have OMT now which will save us all...

 

 

Syrian Presidency Takes The Fight To Twitter

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/10/2013 - 09:44

 

 

TheGuardian.com Traffic Surges By 671,389.5% In One Year

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/10/2013 - 09:37

No, that is not a typo, at least not according to the blog of traffic counting website Compete.com, which notes that with 7.1 million unique visitors, the website of the newspaper that broke the Edward Snowden scandal and has been covering the NSA's spying scandal has seen an unprecedented increase in traffic. Granted the Y/Y number is an aberation due to the switchover from Guardian.co.uk to an impartial dot com address, but either way, as Compete notes, just "Guardian.co.uk over the recent months also shows that the news outlet had their best month for unique visitors (UVs) in two years."

 

 

Market Update: The War Premium Unwind

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/10/2013 - 09:28

The last 2 days market reaction has been one of war-premium reversion for all asset classes. Oil has tumbled back this mnorning to around $106.50 (its pre-Kerry level) also in line with the USD which has fallen back to unchanged from that initial warmongery. European stocks remain the big winner - up 3.5% since Kerry started but today's rise in stocks lifts the S&P to +1.5% from 6/27 (so no war and we don't care about Taper). It seems, however, that the safe-havens are having the war premium sucked out and reality of a SepTaper pricing back in. 10Y Treasury yields are back above 2.96% (with 30Y bonds -2% in price from Kerry) and Gold and Silver are tumbling (-3.5% and 5.9% respectively from Kerry's initial ravings). Now, should we worry about crossing 3.00% again (and the surging cost of capital that will crimp consumer spending and corporate buyback abilities)? Or does that not matter now that war is off the table for 10 minutes?

 

 

Italy And France "Hard" Data Dashes Hopes From Europe's "Soft" PMI Data

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/10/2013 - 09:01

The talking-heads remain stuck in repeat mode over European PMIs and how that means the hot-money should be buying peripheral stocks with both hands and feet; but as we discussed in detail here, relying the "rough" survey-based PMI data as an indicator of future economic strength is a mistake. With transmission mechanisms gummed up, hope is not enabled to translate into activity and overnight we got confirmation of that sad new reality from Italy (which saw its GDP miss expectations, shrinking by more than expected), and France (which saw Industrial Production miss expectations topping the worst 3 month slide in 10 months). It seems once again that faith does not triumph over reality and Europe is indeed stuck in the quagmire that unemployment rates, loan delinquencies, and credit creation would suggest. Of course, we are sure we'll be told to wait just another quarter for the hope to filter into reality... just keep waiting, and hoping.

 

Dow Jones To Kick Out Losers From Index: Alcoa, Hewlett, BofA Out; Replaced With Goldman, Nike And Visa

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/10/2013 - 08:41

In what has become an unspoken tradition for the Dow Jones, which maintains its upward bias by kicking out underperformers and replacing them with the investor darlings du jour, we just learned that as part of its next three-for-three rebalancing, the first since 2004, the DJIA will kick out such recent losers as Alcoa, Hewlett Packard and Bank of America, and will be replaced with Goldman, Nike and Visa:

   ALCOA, BANK OF AMERICA, HEWLETT-PACKARD TO LEAVE DJIA

   GOLDMAN SACHS, VISA, NIKE TO JOIN DJ INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE

   CHANGES WERE PROMPTED BY THE LOW STOCK PRICE OF THE THREE COMPANIES SLATED FOR REMOVAL

What, no inclusion of Apple, Tesla or Netflix? Also, for those keeping track, there are now 10 "industrials" in the 30 company index that make, well, nothing. And how soon until the entire DJIA becomes one daily rebalanced ETF, which has as constituents only stocks that have traded up 5% or higher on the prior trading day?

 

And Now Talking Back The Talking Back As Carney Says Obama Will Seek Support For Strikes Tonight

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/10/2013 - 08:36

Any potential goodwill from Plan B, namely that the Syrian attack may be delayed, if not cancelled, may have been put in doubt following the latest statement from Obama's spokesman Carney who said in a MSNBC interview that:

   OBAMA WILL BE SEEKING SUPPORT FOR SYRIA STRIKE TONIGHT: CARNEY

That said, Plan C also gives Obama the "out" of reconciliation, and making it seem that it will have been Obama, the great Pacifier, who managed to talk back hostilities from the edge of World War III:

   CARNEY SAYS `INTENSE' TALKS WITH ALLIES CONTINUE ON SYRIA

   CARNEY SAYS THERE'S `SOME POTENTIAL PROGRESS' IN DIPLOMACY

   CARNEY SAYS RUSSIA PLAN `POTENTIAL DIPLOMATIC BREAKTHROUGH'

In short: the chaos continues as Obama scrambles for a political solution that does not make it seem like the latest attempt to punish Syria would have crashed and burned not only in Congress but on the international arena as well.

 

JPMorgan Balance Sheet Update: Record $500 Billion In Prop Trading Dry Powder

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/10/2013 - 08:06

In the aftermath of the JPM CIO prop trading blunder, the firm disclosed that the capital used for risky bets such as attempting to corner the IG or HY markets was the result of excess deposits over loans, which at that time stood at $423 billion, resulting in $323 billion in CIO invested and non Marked-to-Market "Available for Sale" securities. Following yesterday's CFO update on the state of the mortgage market, which we recapped here, and which warned how the recent spike in rates would impact the firm's balance sheet, the firm also provided an updated snapshot of its balance sheet as of June 30, broken down by core capital components. We now know that in the one year period since the London Whale blunder, the firm's available "dry powder" which can be invested in any type of AFS security, or in stocks, or bonds, or any other risk asset for that matter, has now risen to a record $497 billion, the result of a record $1203 billion in deposits offset by just $706 billion in loans, or what we assume is a record low 60% loan-to-deposit ratio.

 

 

Syria Latest: Full Event Update

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/10/2013 - 07:23

All the latest news, some of which outright conflicting, in the rapidly changing Syrian melodrama:

   Syria accepts Russian proposal to put Chemical weapons under international control - Interfax quoting Syria's foreign minister Muallem

   France to Introduce Resolution Aimed at Dismantling Syria's Chemical Arsenal

   France to push Russian proposal on Syrian chemical weapons at U.N. Security Council

   President Obama said on ABC News a U.S. attack “absolutely” would be put on hold if Syria followed through on Russian bid to get Syria to surrender chemical weapons

   Majority in House now don’t favor Syria military strike

   Russia urges Syria to give up its chemical weapons stockpile

   Obama questions whether Syrian President al-Assad would yield control of weapons

 

 

Frontrunning: September 10

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/10/2013 - 07:14

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   Poll Finds Support Fading for Syria Attack (WSJ)

   France to Introduce Resolution Aimed at Dismantling Syria's Chemical Arsenal (WSJ)

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   Houses on fire as fighting erupts in southern Philippines (Reuters)

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