https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/851136575207608322
That quote is from former Obama State Department official Antony Blinken in Sunday’s New York Times on the 2013 deal with Syria that they told us then had removed all of Assad’s chemical weapons:
“We always knew we had not gotten everything" — Antony Blinken on Syria's 2013 CW deal. Smart read by @peterbakernyt https://t.co/8Tcf7K3BpQ
— Andrew Katz (@katz) April 9, 2017
From the article:
Still, the administration knew all along that it had probably not gotten all of the chemical weapons, and tried to get Russia to help press Syria, without success. “We always knew we had not gotten everything, that the Syrians had not been fully forthcoming in their declaration,” Mr. Blinken said.
Wow.
But it’s not just Blinkin spilling the beans. Here’s Dan Shapiro, who was a member of Obama’s National Security Council, saying almost the same thing:
12. We always knew Syria likely squirreled away some residual undeclared stocks and/or production capability, now proven by Idlib strike.
— Dan Shapiro (@DanielBShapiro) April 9, 2017
Shapiro, however, is arguing that despite lying to America for 4 years, the 2013 deal was still a good idea:
4. But I strongly disagree with those who say Assad's CW attack on Idlib proves that the 2013 CW deal struck by Russia &the US was worthless
— Dan Shapiro (@DanielBShapiro) April 9, 2017
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Over to you Secretary Kerry. Care to comment on this?
File under: “We always knew.” pic.twitter.com/QeklgUIzBH
— Tony Badran (@AcrossTheBay) April 9, 2017
Here’s the video:
At least PolitFact, which had ruled Kerry’s statement above as “mostly-true” in 2014, is revisiting things now and has pulled its prior fact-check:
Revisiting Obama track record on Syria’s chemical weapons https://t.co/6HVHcpjZM6
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) April 9, 2017
Time for the entire Obama administration and the MSM to “revisit” as well.
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