President Obama accused of LYING about intelligence which he said proved Assad was behind sarin gas attacks in Syria

• The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist claims the Obama Administration 'cherry-picked intelligence' on Syria
• Hersh, 76, cited conversations with military officials who spoke of their 'immense frustration' with the President
• Previously he had claimed that the official account of the 2011 raid which killed Osama Bin Laden as 'one big lie'
• He says the US media is too 'afraid' to pick on Obama

By Marie-louise Olson and David Mccormack

Published: 03:14 BST, 9 December 2013 | Updated: 06:59 BST, 9 December 2013

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist has accused President Obama of lying to the American people earlier this year when he blamed President Bashar al-Assad for a sarin-gas attack that killed hundreds of Syrian civilians in August.
Seymour Hersh, 76, who had previously described the official account of the 2011 raid which killed Osama Bin Laden as ‘one big lie,’ claims the current administration ‘cherry-picked intelligence’ on Syria.
Hersh first gained worldwide recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai Massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh has accused President Obama of lying to the American people earlier this year when he blamed President Bashar al-Assad for a sarin-gas attack that killed hundreds of Syrian civilians in August

Hersh, 76, cited conversations with military officials who spoke of their 'immense frustration' with the President

In early September, Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States had proof that the nerve-gas attack in Syria was made on Assad's orders.
‘We know the Assad regime was responsible,’ President Obama told the nation in an address days after this revelation, when he said he had been pushed over the ‘red line’ to consider military intervention.


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