The Pentagon vowed to do better after hiding from Americans for days the fact that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was medically AWOL. It also struggled for a week to get its story straight on the nature of a Chinese spy balloon transversing U.S. air space. And it falsely claimed the withdrawal from Afghanistan would be orderly when its own emails conceded there was "chaos." Videos shown around the world revealed civilians falling to their deaths trying to cling to evacuating U.S. military aircraft.
The trouble with the truth inside America's most famous five-sided building exploded anew Thursday when a two-star general admitted at the beginning of a Pentagon press briefing that the Biden administration had doubled the number of U.S. troops inside Syria months ago while continuing to provide a false and lower number to reporters.
"As you know, we have been briefing you regularly that there are approximately 900 U.S. troops deployed to Syria," Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder told stunned reporters. "In light of the situation in Syria and the significant interest, we recently learned that those numbers were higher.
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The trouble with the truth inside America's most famous five-sided building exploded anew Thursday when a two-star general admitted at the beginning of a Pentagon press briefing that the Biden administration had doubled the number of U.S. troops inside Syria months ago while continuing to provide a false and lower number to reporters.
"As you know, we have been briefing you regularly that there are approximately 900 U.S. troops deployed to Syria," Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder told stunned reporters. "In light of the situation in Syria and the significant interest, we recently learned that those numbers were higher.
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DOD's Deception: General's admission on U.S. troops in Syria latest whopper to mislead Americans
From the disastrous Afghanistan retreat to Lloyd Austin's surgery, Biden's Pentagon has been flagged regularly for mistruths if not outright disinformation.
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