Thread by @aaronjmate

.@TheGrayzoneNews exclusive: ex-OPCW chief José Bustani defends the whistleblowers who challenged a cover-up of their Syria probe.

Bustani also reacts to US-allies blocking his UN testimony -- & reveals he was spied on before US ousted him over Iraq war.

The OPCW inspectors who challenged a cover-up of their investigation in Douma, Syria are so experienced that they worked under the OPCW's first Director General, José Bustani.

Here, Bustani explains why he has come forward to defend them. Full interview: thegrayzone.com/2020/10/18/ex-…

Former OPCW chief José Bustani on media silence over the OPCW Syria cover-up scandal, & how media coverage could make a difference in protecting the OPCW from political exploitation by US & other Western states.

cc @TheIntercept & @democracynow , who have ignored this story.

Ex-OPCW chief José Bustani on reports that US officials lobbied OPCW inspectors to conclude that a chlorine attack occurred in Douma - the pretext for the US-led bombing of Syria in April 2018: "If I were Director-General, this would never happen. Never." thegrayzone.com/2020/10/18/ex-…

Ex-OPCW chief José Bustani on the fact that the OPCW inspectors who investigated the alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria were sidelined and replaced with a so-called "core" team who never set foot there: "It would have never happened" under his watch. thegrayzone.com/2020/10/18/ex-…

Ex-OPCW chief José Bustani -- ousted by US in 2002 for impeding the Iraq war -- describes when John Bolton personally threatened him to force his resignation.

Bolton told him: "We know where your kids are."

Bustani: "It made me very worried and sad."

thegrayzone.com/2020/10/18/ex-…

Former OPCW chief José Bustani reveals that this office was bugged. This was during the period when he was trying to bring Iraq into the OPCW -- which could have prevented the US invasion. The US later ousted him by threatening the OPCW's budget. thegrayzone.com/2020/10/18/ex-…

Former OPCW chief José Bustani also reveals that, after he discovered that he was being spied on, an American who then headed the OPCW's security operations suddenly vanished. "This person disappeared -- and never showed up again." thegrayzone.com/2020/10/18/ex-…

US, UK, France recently did something that got almost no attention: they blocked OPCW's first Director General, José Bustani, from testifying at the UN Security Council. Bustani was there to defend OPCW whistleblowers whose Syria investigation was compromised. Bustani responds:

In 2002, @GeorgeMonbiot said OPCW chief José Bustani has "done more in the past five years to promote world peace than anyone else on earth."

Monbiot & many more are now silent on US-UK- France blocking Bustani's UN testimony on OPCW's Syria scandal.

Bustani hopes that changes: