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Who is running US Foreign Policy

Foreign policy calls rest with neocon cell in White House

By Wayne Madsen

Posted on July 3, 2017

 A powerful neocon cell is calling U.S. foreign policy shots in the Trump White House. Neocon describes those who put the interests of Israel ahead of those of the United States.

This cell, which receives its backing from presidential adviser Jared Kushner, Trump’s special adviser on Middle East issues, has been behind two falsehoods concerning Syria’s possession of chemical weapons.

The first was trotted out in April when Trump authorized the launch of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles on Syria’s Shayrat airbase, where Russian units were present, said to have been the launch point for a chemical attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun. The U.S. attack killed some 90 people, including civilians.

The second lie about Syrian chemical weapons served as the basis for the recent White House warning to Syria, Russia, and Iran that action would be taken against them if there was another planned chemical attack on “civilians.” Syria and Russia have denied such an attack was going to take place and have accused the Trump administration of fabricating video evidence that would be distributed prior to another U.S. attack on Syrian forces.

Neither U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson nor Defense Secretary James Mattis were briefed on the White House charges about Syrian chemical weapons prior to the issuance of the warning to Damascus. Tillerson is reportedly enraged over the White House neocon cell having final say in important foreign policy decisions and has gotten into shouting matches with Kushner and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.

The Russian government indicated that the U.S. was planning to fabricate a Syrian chemical attack on the towns of Saraqib and Arihah in rebel-held territory in Idlib province.

The neocon cell in the Trump White House operates chiefly from the National Security Council and is led by Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the council’s intelligence chief, and Derek Harvey, the NSC’s Middle East point man and a close associate of disgraced General David Petraeus. The neocon group also uses U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley as its public agent. The neocon group often bypasses National Security Adviser General H. R. McMaster and reports directly to Kushner.

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