The fact-check website PolitiFact is reversing course on a 2014 ruling that said then-Secretary of State John Kerry was “mostly true” in stating that “100 percent” of chemical weapons had been removed in Syria.
An article published by PolitiFact Wednesday night said that the recent chemical attack on a Syrian city, reportedly by the country’s own government, has ultimately “proved Kerry wrong.”
In the summer of 2014, Kerry said on an episode of NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the U.S. had “struck a deal where we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out.”
PolitiFact ruled the claim “mostly true” based on information from the United Nations.
That ruling, however, has since been pulled and replaced with a story “revisiting the Obama track record” on Syria and its artillery of chemical weaponry.
“In the days and weeks to come, we will learn more about the recent attacks, but in the interest of providing clear information, we have replaced the original fact-check with this update,” the new story says.
Reports on the April 5 attack in Syria indicate more than 70 people were killed, including many women and children.
