U.S. "backed plan to launch chemical attack on Syria and blame it on Assad"

The emails were faked.

Really? A Daily Mail story for which the source is Infowars?

The "source" was a german hacker:

No, the source was the set of documents that he released.

~200MB worth of documents to be approximately exact. Are they fake? Who do we trust and why? Every "fact" we're given comes second hand.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

What is extraordinary about it?

The oldest trick in the book: "Mom, she's hitting me!" (she wasn't hitting me.)

Nations have been attacking each other in this way since forever. Is it more or less extraordinary than a nation attacking it's own people?