Given the industrial scale dissimulation now being exercised by Russian intelligence operatives in Ukraine, it is hard to grasp how anyone with Hersh's experience could publish such a statement without qualification. Russia, after all, was desperately trying to prevent the U.S. from intervening militarily in Syria. Since when is the intelligence operative of a foreign state who produces evidence to promote his state's goals "trustworthy"? If they are, they aren't doing their job.
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