Thread by @timtron2020

#CaroleCadwalladr, seen here with her friend, the "ex-spy" Christopher Steele, has evidently been ordered to re-heat the #Skripal #Salisbury #novichok story (which Steele was involved with) because of the "biolabs" found in #Ukraine. So let's deconstruct her #disinformation. 1/11

#CaroleCadwalladr has long been known to be associated with UK intelligence. Documents reveal her connection to the discredited 'Integrity Initiative', a project intended to build a network of client journalists to promote the establishment's agenda. 2/11

This is the article we'll quickly look at, which #CaroleCadwalladr had published in The Observer today. We will see that she is the antithesis of an investigative journalist, carefully avoiding the important questions about stories like the #Skripals. 3/11 theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/m…

#CaroleCadwalladr begins with some widely shared and believed #disinformation. The first person to cast doubt on Cadwalladr's bald assertion here that #Putin ordered the #Salisbury #novichok attack was the PM at the time, Theresa May. May's early statement was then ignored. 4/11

Years ago The Guardian/Observer used to employ real investigative journalists instead of people working for the establishment. One of the best, @Bynickdavies, explains here the significance of May's #Skripal statement and what it means for journalism. 5/11

#Cadwalladr says #Salisbury is the heart of the British military. She can't acknowledge that the two Russians humiliated themselves on RT, so turns that on its head. But maybe she'd say it explains why the army's most senior nurse found the #Skripals. 6/11

#Cadwalladr would never ask how these two "Russian soldiers", apparently active for years, were able to get into the UK. Is there a record of their visa applications? Carole doesn't care. She doesn't care that there's no footage of them approaching #Skripal's house. And... 7/11

...she doesn't care that the bottle she says the Russians threw away - and turned up ~four months later, miles away in Amesbury - was boxed and sealed in plastic as new according to Charlie Rowley, who apparently found it in his flat. Carole would *never* ask such questions. 8/11

It was almost four months later (#Salisbury 4 Mar; #Amesbury 30 Jun). More importantly Rowley didn't "fish" the bottle out of a bin. This is a false narrative that it's Carole's job to re-enforce. In fact Rowley has no idea where the bottle came from. 9/11

Carole mentions #Trump but omits that the CIA lied to him about this case. The #Skripals fed bread to ducks in #Salisbury shortly after their hands had touched this weapon of mass destruction. No ducks were hurt, but the CIA told Trump they'd died. 10/11

I could go on, but from here #Cadwalladr develops an attack on the UK government for its Russian connections, having done the job of establishing in the minds of Guardian readers that the #Skripal narrative is beyond question. This fake, limited opposition is her function. 11/11