Seymour Hersh drops ‘bombshell’ on Obama: American writer

"But certainly the main point that the US knew that they were arming and the CIA knew that they were arming ISIS [ISIL] and other groups is non-story, that part is a no-brainer, a case of the right hand knowing what the right hand is doing,” he added.

“The other part about the upper echelons of the military actually defying him [Obama] and going behind his back is quite the bombshell, and that is an amazing story,” he continued.   

“He has been right on everything else. So I trust his judgment. But of course this is treasonous to actually actively defy a commander-in-chief, but it’s a kind of treason history likes, you know like the Soviet sub commander who countermanded a launch code in the Cuban missile crisis to probably save the world from nuclear annihilation,” he stated.

“Now, sometimes people have to think, and Obama does not think. He is not a thinking president. He has given over his entire presidency to the neocons – really sociopathic leadership, either that or he is in cahoots with them--it doesn’t really matter. He is the laziest, most cowardly person ever to sit in that chair. It’s a travesty, it’s a really sad historical fact, and it will be seen that way historically,” the analyst noted.

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Ex-Pentagon Chief Hagel Knew Ousting Assad ‘Insanely Foolish’

Top US military leaders deliberately opposed and tried to subvert the Obama administration’s policy to remove Assad, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh wrote in an article published in the London Review (LBR) of Books on Monday.

"Hagel also understood that toppling Assad was insanely foolish," Todd told Sputnik on Tuesday when asked about Hersh’s revelations.

Hagel had carried the United States through the most dangerous times in Syria, illustrating how being Secretary of Defense is a "thankless job," she added.

Obama, Todd claimed, is trying to stave off intense pressure to call for Assad's removal during this election season because he does not want another Iraq.

Todd noted, Hersh documented in 2014 how former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director David Petraeus and others "nearly successfully dragged us into a war to topple Assad," in an LBR piece entitled "The Red Line and the Rat Line."

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Seymour Hersh: U.S. Military Undermined Obama on Syria with Tacit Help to Assad

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