the basis for removing the del ponte material is that  she signed the  june 2013 report which was  'agnostic' about  chemical weapons having been used by rebel forces , she was premature speaking out kind of thing, the report supersedes her earlier talk, - you remain 'agnostic'  but sellstrom and the report came to its conclusions - -'poor theories' he called the theories of the ' rebels/ Saudis/turks did it '  crowd - , poor theories pushed by whoever, are poor theories - you may have weighed hersh in the balance and found him credible, full stop, as a person you've vetted, if hersh writes about ghouta, sarin, chemistry, diplomacy, baseball ,  he is credible , about anything and everything , for you   - but so what? - for the article its fringe imo -he is fringe ,  or 'poor theory' pusher if you don't   like hersh called fringe on ghouta -so all the intelligence officers in the world that sy hersh  hob-nobs with, , all the mandarin know-alls , all the  knowers of super-secret stuff, of rat lines and false flags,  haven't persuaded sellstrom have they, and don't you think he is 'credible ? more credible on chemical attacks than hersh, - who takes hersh seriously on ghouta? -  RT? and  my goodness,  hershs articles are referenced  and quoted  anyhow all over the article last I saw. he is not being gagged is he