{"id":60433,"date":"2021-11-15T07:46:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T12:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60433"},"modified":"2021-11-15T07:46:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T12:46:40","slug":"us-coverup-of-syria-massacre-shows-the-danger-of-the-assange-precedent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60433","title":{"rendered":"US Coverup Of Syria Massacre Shows The Danger Of The Assange Precedent"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/11\/15\/us-coverup-of-syria-massacre-shows-the-danger-of-the-assange-precedent\/\">US Coverup Of Syria Massacre Shows The Danger Of The Assange Precedent<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-10748\" class=\"post-10748 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-airstrike tag-assange tag-baghuz tag-journalism tag-new-york-times tag-syria\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/medium-4-1200x667.jpg?485df6&amp;485df6\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/medium-4-1200x667.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/medium-4-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/medium-4-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/medium-4-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/medium-4.jpg 1280w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"667\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/us-coverup-of-syria-massacre-shows-the-danger-of-the-assange-precedent\">Listen to a reading of this article:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1160143267&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=1000&amp;maxwidth=1060\" width=\"1060\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times has published a very solid\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/iEjMZ\">investigative report<\/a>\u00a0on a US military coverup of a 2019 massacre in Baghuz, Syria which killed scores of civilians. This would be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZtecNyXxb9A\">the second<\/a>\u00a0investigative report on civilian-slaughtering US airstrikes by The New York Times in a matter of weeks, and if I were a more conspiracy-minded person I\u2019d say the paper of record appears to have been infiltrated by journalists.<\/p>\n<p>The report contains many significant revelations, including that the US military has been grossly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/iEjMZ#selection-711.154-711.213\">undercounting<\/a>\u00a0the numbers of civilians killed in its airstrikes and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/iEjMZ#selection-1593.185-1593.207\">lying about it<\/a>\u00a0to Congress, that special ops forces in Syria have been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/iEjMZ#selection-613.0-613.344\">consistently ordering<\/a>\u00a0airstrikes which kill noncombatants with no accountability by exploiting loopholes to get around rules meant to protect civilians, that units which call in such airstrikes are allowed to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/iEjMZ#selection-905.0-905.226\">do their own assessments<\/a>\u00a0grading whether the strikes were justified, that the US war machine\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/iEjMZ#selection-525.391-525.655\">attempted to obstruct<\/a>\u00a0scrutiny of the massacre \u201cat nearly every step\u201d of the way, and that the Air Force\u2019s Office of Special Investigations only investigates such incidents when there is\u00a0\u201cpotential for high media attention, concern with outcry from local community\/government, concern sensitive images may get out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut at nearly every step, the military made moves that concealed the catastrophic strike,\u201d The New York Times reports. \u201cThe death toll was downplayed. Reports were delayed, sanitized and classified. United States-led coalition forces bulldozed the blast site. And top leaders were not notified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Aaron Mat\u00e9\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mate.substack.com\/p\/syrias-my-lai-us-massacred-70-civilians\">has called<\/a>\u00a0the incident \u201cone of the US military\u2019s worst massacres and cover-up scandals since My Lai in Vietnam.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1459993094858981376&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2021%2F11%2F15%2Fus-coverup-of-syria-massacre-shows-the-danger-of-the-assange-precedent%2F&amp;sessionId=ddb1a7dddeb32765bf8827bc5496dfca4d525e3d&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=f001879%3A1634581029404&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1459993094858981376\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Coverup Of Syria Massacre Shows The Danger Of The Assange Precedent Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 The New York Times has published a very solid\u00a0investigative report\u00a0on a US military coverup of a 2019 massacre in Baghuz, Syria which killed scores of civilians. This would be\u00a0the second\u00a0investigative report on civilian-slaughtering US airstrikes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[4829,2001,827,834,3047],"class_list":["post-60433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-coverup","tag-julian-assange","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-war-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60434,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60433\/revisions\/60434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}