On
Syria,
McDonough Says
Vote Is Really
on Iran, Assad
Interview
Teased
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 8 --
Selling a
military
strike on
Syria, US
official Denis
McDonough hit
the Sunday
talk shows. On
CBS's Face the
Nation he said
that those
who've seen
the American
evidence are
convinced.
That's
not the case
at the UN. As
Inner City
Press reported
late last
week,
responses from
those who'd
gone to the US
Mission to see
the evidence
included "not
convinced" to
"the same as
shown in the
capital."
A
European
country, in
the meeting
with those who
asked the UN
to probe the
August 21
incident,
grilled the
US. Does
McDonough know
this? Or think
that the
public
doesn't?
On
ABC's show
This Week,
McDonough said
he's
"outraged" at
the
suggestion
that the US
would be
operating as
Al Qaeda's air
force. Is
it outrageous
to suggest
that a strike
might help the
armed
opposition,
including Al
Qaeda?
On
Face the
Nation,
McDonough
announced that
this vote is
really a vote
on Iran.
Really?
Drama
occurred on
Face the
Nation, when
Bob Schieffer
put Charlie
Rose on
to say he'd
had an
interview with
Bashar al
Assad, but
wouldn't show
it until
Monday night
on PBS. Rose
said Assad
referred to
Aleppo.
But what did
he say?
Commercial
tease (for an
ostensibly
non-commercial
network) in
the run up to
war?
Schieffer
delivered
his view, that
strikes should
go forward
because the US
said they
would. Oh.
Then he said,
Some of our
stations are
leaving
us now. Some
of your
viewers, too.
From
the UN, after
@InnerCityPress
was named
one of two
"Twitterati
100" covering
the UN by
Foreign Policy
magazine,
and after
InnerCityPress.com
ran articles
questioning
how the US is
doling out
information
and questions
to those on
the UNCA
Executive
Committee
who sponsored
a faux
"UN briefing"
by Saudi
sponsored
Syria
rebel boss
Jarba,
those insiders
launched
two
counterfeit
social
media
accounts.
This hostility
was noticed,
overseas and in Washington.
The
goal
is confusion -
they've
followed
diplomats,
reporters and
others --
and to
undermine
Inner City
Press and
questions
being asked.
But questions
and reporting
will continue.
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site.
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