1/ While @USAmbUK Woody Johnson nauseatingly tries to pretend in his posts on twitter that the current relationship between the US and the UK is a harmonious and balanced one, he and his colleagues in Washington are in reality behaving like a bully and an oppressor.
2/ Nowhere is this more apparent than in their approach to the tragic cases of #HarryDunn and #deansprouting where they have failed to do the right things by the family and ensure that those responsible for their deaths are held to account.
3/ They clearly take the position that the lives of UK citizens, and the feelings of their families are unimportant. The US Govt knows well that the injustice in both cases will be reversed and that there is no other way forward, hard as they try to sweep things under the carpet.
4/ The US Govt, aided and abetted by UK Govts up til now, have done their best to not draw attention to the work that the CIA/NSA do at "RAF" Croughton and other US bases in the UK. In one foolish move in spiriting #annesacoolas away, they have themselves achieved the very thing
5/ they were seeking to avoid. The conduct of CIA officers on base, as well as theirs and their dependents' off it, will now under the microscope, and they only have themselves to blame. The arrangements at Croughton may well apply to other bases too. Actions and consequences...
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