Breaking News: New Intelligence Shows Institutional Bias In Syria Towards Bashar al-Assad And Brings Up Questions As To The Legitimacy Of His Election Win

Despite claims of being "free, fair, and transparent", new intelligence has come to light showing that the 2014 Syrian election which Bashar al-Assad won had many issues. One bit of information obtained by US intelligence agencies shows that his party heavily favored him in the primary so that his much less hawkish Baathist competitor would not have a chance at defeating him. New intelligence also points to collusion between the Syrian media and Bashar al-Assad. For instance, a member at the largest Syrian news network, SANA, fed him questions that were to be asked at the debate. Other news agencies as well as major Syrian corporations also had extremely close relations with al-Assad. In fact, some of al-Assad's speeches to corporations have been uncovered, where he talks of colluding with them and having to have a public position (for Syrian commoners) and a private position (which is his true position that favors those he colludes with). Needless to say, all of this information being released may have a negative impact on the way Syrians perceive him. The Assad regime is currently considering actions to hurt the United States over their part in the leaking of these documents that hurt his legitimacy. However, the United States government (which has not admitted to the release of information) says rightly that the citizens of Syria need to know the truth about their leader, and that the aggression against the United States is just an empty gesture that Assad hopes will take the minds of his citizens off of the real problem, namely the accusations against him that have been proven to be true. Oh... Hold on a second! I meant Hillary Clinton, not Bashar al-Assad! I think I got my countries and elections confused! Well, I guess we've seen what those in power care about. Rather than apologizing for their shenanigans behind the veil of secrecy up to and including their attempted (and successful with Bernie) fixing of the election and collusion with others in doing it, they are more interested in blaming the whistleblower who let the American people know the truth. This is nothing new, as Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, and yes, Julian Assange will easily attest to...but it is particularly astonishing that they will go so far as blaming others for rigging the election when in fact it was they who were rigging the election the whole time. They merely got found out, so you can say that the election got un-rigged.