Thread by @RealSLokhova

Here is how NBC burst into my life. Context: In May 2018, Stefan Halper was exposed as a spy. I suddenly realised that I have been dragged into a massive scandal. I gave an interview to the Times of London. Then I receive this email from NBC. (1)

I rung NBC up. Here is a follow up on our call: 'It will be all the more powerful if NBC does it, one, because it’s the most watched network, and two, if NBC is doing it given the network’s agressive reporting on this administration, people will take it all the more seriously.(2)

NBC program on Halper would be 'holding a powerful (if repugnant) man to account, holding our top law enforcement agency to account, and ... clarifying something that will be written in..history books that cover Flynn, the current administration, and the Mueller investigation.(3)

NBC producer: I’m passionate about righting this wrong and telling your story, which exposes Halper’s true character, and calls out the FBI for relying on a slanderer who cares much more about telling a juicy yarn than the truth. This is a breach of justice full stop.' (4)

NBC producer: 'As a woman, and a professional woman, I shudder at the notion of a fallacious story about sleeping with Flynn and spying no less not just told around Cambridge but given to the press and reported as fact.' (5)

'I and my team in the investigative unit will take this story and it’s important implications very seriously and I believe our agencies (FBI and CIA) will be better for the fact that we shine a bright light on an unreliable and loose-lipped informant prone to inventing stories (6

NBC Producer in email to me: 'NBC is a place for serious journalism. I consider myself a serious journalist. I sincerely hope you will consider working with me on this.' (7)

After my experience with NYT and WashPost, I was highly sceptical. However, Halper story, which was being suppressed in the US in May 2018, had to be told to the largest possible audience (8)

What followed was a number of increasingly bizarre phone contestations. NBC went from 'fact-checking' to 'interrogation'- type questions to twisting. (9)

Then I noticed that I acquired some strange followers on twitter. I asked the NBC producer, 'Who is Ken Dilanian?' she went quiet and then responded 'why are you asking?'. (10)

It then struck me that there were more than just me and the producer on the call. I asked the producer directly if Dilanian was listening to the call and feeding her questions? The producer abruptly ended the call. (11)

NBC producer called me from her mobile. She sounded distressed and said she was being pressurised by her colleagues. She believed me but said a colleague with 25 years intelligence experience was laughing saying "Everyone at the CIA knows Flynn had an affair with Lokhova" (12)

NBC bully witnesses of fact who step forward whose evidence contradicts the fake narrative. They suppress the truth. They will never give up as so much is invested in the lie. END