In an interview given by POTEE to the The Atlantic magazine POTEE "remembers" that the alleged justification for instigating the illegal invasion by bombing Syria was a lie.

"Here is what the article in The Atlantic which is based on Obama's interviews says:
“Obama was also unsettled by a surprise visit early in the week from James Clapper, his director of national intelligence, who interrupted the President’s Daily Brief, the threat report Obama receives each morning from Clapper’s analysts, to make clear that the intelligence on Syria’s use of sarin gas, while robust, was not a “slam dunk.”
He chose the term carefully. Clapper, the chief of an intelligence community traumatized by its failures in the run-up to the Iraq War, was not going to overpromise, in the manner of the onetime CIA director George Tenet, who famously guaranteed George W. Bush a “slam dunk” in Iraq.”
That the US intelligence community was unable to confirm that Assad was definitely responsible for the chemical attack on Ghouta was suspected by some at the time.
The clue was that in order to justify the proposed bombing the Obama administration published what it called a “Government Assessment” which said that it was Assad who was responsible for the attack.

A “Government Assessment” is a relatively new device whereby the administration - ie. Obama and his advisers - give their opinion on an intelligence question. It is to be contrasted by the much more authoritative - and traditional - “Intelligence Assessment”, which is signed off by the US intelligence services themselves, and which sets out their views.

In other words an “Intelligence Assessment” sets out the opinions of the intelligence professionals, whilst a “Government Assessment” is the opinion of the amateurs in the White House.
A discussion of the difference between a “Government Assessment” and an “Intelligence Assessment” can be found here, and in a scathing comment on the whole affair produced by US intelligence veterans, which can be found here."