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CIA number two resigns hours before Obamaannounces decision to arm Syrian rebels

America's first war based on Twitter'

By Wayne Madsen
Posted on June17, 2013 by WayneMadsen
(WMR)CIA deputydirector Michael Morrell resigned from his post just hours before theObama White House, through deputy national security adviser BenRhodes, announced that the Obama administration had decided toprovide weapons to the Syrian Free Army and its allied groups.
Obama's pretext for arming the Al Qaeda-linked guerrillas isthat U.S. intelligence concluded, after months of saying there wasinsufficient proof, that Syria used chemical weapons to kill Syriancivilians. The Russian government says it doesn't believe Obama'sclaims, especially after Secretary of State Colin Powell's infamouslie to the UN Security Council about Iraqi anthrax was used tojustify America's invasion of Iraq.
Among the top allied group of the Syrian Free Army is the Jabhatal Nusra Front, whose leader, Abou Mohamad al-Joulani, recentlypledged total allegiance to Al Qaeda's leader and Osama Bin Laden'sreplacement, Ayman al Zawahri.
USA Today quoted Tamer Mouhieddine, spokesman for theFree Syrian Army as follows, "The rebels in Syria have one commonenemyBashar Assadand they will collaborate with any factionallowing them to topple his regime." The Al Qaeda-linked al NusraFront is leading the efforts against the Assad government in Aleppo,according to Mouhieddine.
Syria's government responded to Obama's annnoucement bycalling claims that it used chemical weapons "full of lies."
WMR's intelligence sources say Morrell has steadfastly arguedthat there was insufficient proof of claims, mostly emanating fromSyrian rebel sources and Israel, that Assad's forces had usedchemical weapons, including sarin gas, on civilians. One of Rhodes'ssources for his claims of Syrian use of chemical weapons was, asstated in the White House statement, "social media oultets fromSyrian opposition groups and other media sources." Some U.S.intelligence sources are mocking Rhodes's contention by callingObama's decision America's first "war based on Twitter."
Morrell won high praise for his leadership from Obama during thesex scandal involving CIA director David Petraeus. Morrell served asacting CIA director before Obama named his national security deputyadviser, John Brennan, a known supporter of Salafist and radicalWahhabi causes and groups, as CIA director. WMR has also learned thatNational Security Adviser Tom Donilon, who opposed U.S. militaryintervention in Syria, was asked to resign by Obama. Donilon, who isclose to Vice President Joe Biden, is being replaced by Syrianmilitary intervention advocate Susan Rice, who has served asambassador to the UN.
Rhodes, 35, the son of a evangelical Christian father from Texasand a Jewish mother from New York, is taking on a more pronouncedrole in Obama's foreign policy decisions. Rhodes's brother, DavidRhodes, is the president of CBS News. The combination of Rice andRhodes as the number one and two national security advisers to Obamais seen as driving the U.S. military intervention in Syria anddriving away seasoned and more experienced individuals like Morrelland Donilon.
The Russian government has joined Morrell and Donilon in theirskepticism about Syrian chemical weapons use. President VladimirPutin's spokesman Yuri Ushakov told RT, "The Americans tried topresent us with information on the use of chemical weapons by theregime, but frankly we thought that it was not convincing . . . Wewouldn't like to invoke references to the famous lab tube thatSecretary of State Powell showed, but the facts don't lookconvincing in our eyes."
There is more evidence that the Al Nusra Front used chemicalweapons in Aleppo and that Assad's forces never used any chemicalweapons in the Syrian civil war, especially with Obana calling suchfirst use a "red line" that he would not permit Assad to crosswithout U.S. military intervention.
WMR has learned that we can expect other high-level resignationsform the CIA as the Obama administration turns up the heat on forcingthe CIA and other intelligence agencies to "cook the books" onmanufacturing intelligence to prove Syria used chemical weapons.
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