While it's still not clear who was responsible for the Aug. 21 deaths outside Damascus -- whether a unit of the Syrian military, some radical rebel group or someone mishandling a dangerous payload -- the facts should be followed objectively, not simply arranged to achieve a desired political outcome.
Now, with the New York Times' grudging admission that its "vector analysis" has collapsed, the pressure should build on the Obama administration to finally put whatever evidence it has before the world's public.
[For more details on this issue, see Consortiumnews.com's "NYT Replays Its Iraq Fiasco in Syria."For more of our early reporting on the Syrian chemical weapons attack, see: "A Dodgy Dossier on Syrian War"; "Murky Clues From UN's Syria Report"; "Obama Still Withholds Syria Evidence"; "How US Pressure Bends UN Agencies"; "Fixing Intel Around the Syria Policy."]
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