New @TheGrayzoneNews exclusive: Before the scandal blew open, OPCW executives privately criticized the Syria probe cover-up and supported the veteran inspector who led the protest against it. One of the execs also feared helping the "Russian narrative." thegrayzone.com/2020/12/07/opc…
These private admissions, contained in leaked emails and documents obtained by The Grayzone, further expose the public whitewash of the Douma cover-up, and undermine the ongoing attacks on the whistleblowers who challenged it.
One OPCW exec criticized the censorship of the Douma evidence & "the selective nature of presenting the facts" in a bogus report. They also praised OPCW inspector Brendan Whelan's protest of the cover-up: "You took all the steps to maintain your moral and professional integrity."
This same exec reported that another top official was "also full of skepticism" about the Douma probe. Yet the exec feared that raising alarm about the scientific fraud would help the "Russian narrative" — a tacit admission that politics had trumped science.
In a glowing August 2018 appraisal, a second OPCW director paid tribute to Whelan's contributions to the organization and his protest of the Douma probe cover-up.
In addition to revealing praise by certain OPCW execs for Whelan’s attempt to protect the investigation, these leaks provide a new window into how other top officials compromised it.
After Whelan wrote an email protesting the doctoring of the Douma team's original report, the OPCW Chief of Cabinet did not deny that the report had been doctored. Instead, he replied that the doctoring was not done on the Director General’s behalf.
But after denying that the Director General was responsible for the censorship, Fairweather initiated another act of censorship himself: requesting that Whelan's email of protest be "recalled" and erased from the OPCW's servers.
In addition to the two known dissenters, we previously heard two other OPCW officials voice alarm about the cover-up. (thegrayzone.com/2020/03/12/opc…)
These new leaks show that concerns about the Douma probe extended to the highest levels of the organization. (thegrayzone.com/2020/12/07/opc…)
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Guess who was an advisory board member for ZAKA, the scam Israeli "rescue" group that's spread fake Oct. 7th claims including beheaded babies, “mass rape”, and a fetus cut from its mother?
.@gettleman, lead author of the NYT article that weaponized sexual violence to baseless claim that "Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7th", is on the defensive -- and doubling down on his fraud. ()
In a new article, he attempts to rebut unspecified "critics" -- whom he tellingly never names or cites.
That's because if he actually acknowledged and linked to the debunking by @TheGrayzoneNews, @intifada, and @Mondoweiss of his scam "reporting," it would be obvious that he can't refute it.
.@gettleman faced a serious problem: He led his story with a slain Israeli woman, Gal Abdush, and claimed she was a "symbol" of Oct. 7th sexual violence. He even all but declared that she was raped.
But then Gal's sister, Miral Alter, called out @Gettleman as a fraud. She said that "there is no proof that there was rape" and accused @gettleman of misleading their family.
Playing damage control, @gettleman went back to Miral and tried to get her to back down. The result is more scumbag journalism.
In his initial article, @Gettleman prominently featured the claims of Yossi Landau, Southern Commander of the scandal-plagued ZAKA. (pic 1)
But Haaretz has already exposed Landau as a liar for falsely claiming that he saw burned babies and a fetus cut from a dead woman’s womb on October 7. ()
So now, in his new attempt to defend his original article, how does the NYT fraudster @Gettleman handle relying on the Zaka fraudster Landau? He simply pretends he doesn't exist.
According to @Gettleman, two of the people he interviewed who described witnessing sexual assault "have since come under intense scrutiny." (pic 2)
This allows @Gettleman to omit that Yossi Landau has also come under "intense scrutiny" -- and found to be a flat-out liar.
Memo to @gettleman and his NYT editors: you don't get to escape accountability for relying on fraudulent sources by suddenly omitting that you relied on them. That shows you're only doubling down on your fraud.archive.is/H6rAm
A major embarrassment for NYT's @gettleman
and his story on "How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence."
Gal Abdush is the Oct. 7th victim whose story leads and is featured throughout the NYT article. Her family is even featured as the cover image. NYT describes her as a "symbol" of Oct. 7th sexual violence.
But Abdush's sister says "there is no proof that there was rape." She also accuses the NYT of manipulating their family. They didn't know that she would be presented as a rape victim.
In other words, NYT weaponized both a dead woman and sexual violence to spread propaganda in the service of a genocide.
“So far, there was only one direct eyewitness testimony” — whose tale was outlandish and had zero evidence.
@noam_dworman Now we got two new purported male witnesses. One isn’t identified. The other happens to be an officer from an elite Israeli military unit.
@noam_dworman The head of Israel’s rape commission says “we will never know neither the numbers or the scope” of these alleged rapes. Why not? And why should I buy these claims if so?
“As a condition to enter Gaza under IDF air support, outlets have to submit all materials and footage to the Israeli military for review prior to publication. CNN has agreed to these terms....”
Your first clue that the Washington Post's new NordStream scoop -- which blames a senior Ukrainian intel officer for the bombing -- is yet another CIA cover story is in the second graf:
"...U.S. and Western officials have called" the NordStream bombings "a dangerous attack on Europe’s energy infrastructure."
No, top US officials -- namely Blinken and Nuland -- have openly celebrated the NordStream bombings as a "tremendous strategic opportunity" that they're "very gratified" by.
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