Down the Memory Hole: NYT Erases CIA’s Efforts to Overthrow Syria’s Government

[Disir]

FAIR has noted before how America’s well-documented clandestine activities in Syria have been routinely ignored when the corporate media discuss the Obama administration’s “hands-off” approach to the four-and-a-half-year-long conflict. This past week, two pieces—one in the New York Times detailing the “finger pointing” over Obama’s “failed” Syria policy, and a Vox “explainer” of the Syrian civil war—did one better: They didn’t just omit the fact that the CIA has been arming, training and funding rebels since 2012, they heavily implied they had never done so.

First, let’s establish what we do know.
Down the Memory Hole: NYT Erases CIA's Efforts to Overthrow Syria's Government


It didn't happen. Everybody is supposed to forget this.

 

[Compost]

obama has a habit of changing basic definitions. "Hands-off" is one example. "Transparency" is another.

 

[Moonglow]

obama has a habit of changing basic definitions. "Hands-off" is one example. "Transparency" is another.

Is this your first ride on the political train?

 

[Compost]

obama has a habit of changing basic definitions. "Hands-off" is one example. "Transparency" is another.

Is this your first ride on the political train?

Hardly. Do you have a point to make?

 

[gipper]

Not surprising since the NY Times has been controlled by the CIA for a long time.