In a rare admission of complete failure, the “fact-checking” website PolitiFact retracted a 2014 article where they claimed it was “Mostly True” that the Obama Administration helped negotiate a deal that removed “100 percent” of the chemical weapons from Syria.

In July 2014, then Secretary of State John Kerry said on Meet the Press that “We struck a deal where we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out.” This was after the disastrous “red line” failure of Barack Obama. Kerry referenced the “deal” between the U.S. and Russia where Russia would agree to help confiscate and then destroy Syria’s entire chemical weapons stockpile.

At the time, Politifact made the ruling that it was “mostly true,” citing a statement from the director of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. “The last of the remaining chemicals identified for removal from Syria were loaded this afternoon aboard the Danish ship Ark Futura,” Üzümcü said in June 2014.

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But almost three years after Kerry’s comment, a chemical weapons attack destroyed a rebel village in Northern Syria, killing between 70 and 100 civilians, including dozens of children. The U.S. and many in the international community have pointed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as the perpetrator.

In retracting their original “fact check,” they said now “they have many unanswered questions.”

“We don’t know key details about the reported chemical attack in Syria on April 4, 2017, but it raises two clear possibilities: Either Syria never fully complied with its 2013 promise to reveal all of its chemical weapons; or it did, but then converted otherwise non-lethal chemicals to military uses,” the site wrote. “One way or another, subsequent events have proved Kerry wrong,” PolitiFact concluded.

This isn’t the first time PolitiFact has been completely wrong in their so-called “fact-checking.” An analysis by The Daily Caller found several examples where PolitiFact either got the information wrong, or refused to acknowledge and correct their errors.

H/T: Washington Free Beacon



