The White House on Tuesday released an intelligence assessment saying it is “confident” that Syrian leader Bashar Assad used sarin gas in a chemical attack on his people earlier this month.
The four-page, declassified report is meant to push back on what it called Russian efforts to spread “disinformation” about the origins of the attack in order to cover up the involvement of Assad, Moscow’s closest ally in the region.
“It’s clear the Russians are trying to cover up what happened there,” a senior White House official said.
