Fact checking the prior Chief Executive's legacy
In case you missed this: Much of the content in the following article may already be known to the reader, but it may also contain some unknown tidbits. Fact Checking Obama’s Phony Legacy Submitted by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton 04/12/17 By: Roger Aronoff The Washington Post’s fact-checker, Glenn Kessler, recently gave Susan Rice four Pinocchios for a false and misleading statement regarding Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile. But what is notable about this story is not that Rice lied. She has done that many times . Rather, the remarkable part of this story is that the Post took so long to wake up to this Obama administration falsehood. After all, Kessler’s evidence that Syria still had a chemical weapons capability reaches back two years, to a period during President Obama’s tenure. Why not, then, issue a fact check sooner? In 2016, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper assessed that “Syria has not declared all the elements of its chemical weapons program.” In a...