Philip Giraldi, executive director of the Council for the National Interest and a former CIA officer, discusses the intelligence community’s anger at the White House’s politically-motivated assessment of the Syrian chemical weapons attack, which places all the blame on the Syrian government and offers little hard evidence to support the claim.
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