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In reply to the discussion: U.S. Military and Intelligence Officials to Obama: “Assad NOT Responsible for Chemical Attack” [View all]JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)as is often the case...
You are confusing "source" with "source."
A story has publisher, writer and sources. They can be separate.
This was published in Consortium News but is not a CN story.
It is an independent statement by VIPS, as the byline and signatures make clear. It has been published all around. If you happen to see it on a compiler site like Infowars (or DU!) that doesn't make it anything other than a VIPS authored statement. (Citing various sources besides the logic of their authors - their accuracy and validity are separate questions.)
Yes, I'll take Ray McGovern, Coleen Rowley, Ann Wright, David McMichael and others on that list as generally more reliable sources with a better track record, each of them especially since they left the national security state. Those inside the NSS at any time tend not to be reliable!