If you need any more proof that the @OPCW censored its Syria chemical weapons probe & covered it up, watch what unfolded at @Europarl_EN today.

OPCW chief Fernando Arias was asked critical questions, including whether he will meet the dissenting investigators. He didn't answer.
.@wallacemick of Ireland asked OPCW chief Arias whether he will account for the scientific fraud in the Douma investigation and why he's refused to meet the dissenting inspectors. Wallace was interrupted by the chair, and Arias refused to answer:
.@ClareDalyMEP of Ireland also asked OPCW chief Fernando Arias if he will meet with the dissenting inspectors who carried out the Douma investigation.

She raises a very key point: if the OPCW has nothing to hide and stand by its claims, why won't it meet its own scientists?
Here's Arias' response.

He never *addresses* the most basic: will you meet the dissenting inspectors? He just declares: "The matter is closed." Right: it's a cover-up.

He also recycles a lie laundered to @bellingcat & @chloehadj: that no state challenged the report's findings.
To try to whitewash his own organization's cover-up, OPCW chief Arias then cites a UN report released months earlier that conducted no on the ground investigation & relied on media accounts. Why isn't he citing his own org's report? Because it's fraudulent.
OPCW chief Fernando Arias then gets even more laughable -- citing a September 2017 report written months *before* the alleged Douma incident.
Arias closes by saying "I don't know why" the OPCW's final Douma report "was contested."

He's lying. If he's somehow managed to ignore the OPCW leaks, he did not ignore the detailed letter that he received from a dissenting inspector. We know that because Arias responded to it.
Here is my @TheGrayzoneNews article which revealed the detailed letter of complaint that dissenting inspector Brendan Whelan sent to Arias two years ago: thegrayzone.com/2020/10/28/dra…

Arias' brief & evasive June 2019 reply is included too. He's now pretending that this didn't happen: Image

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16 Apr
.@IgnatiusPost reports that Kash Patel -- a former senior US official & House Intel staffer who helped expose intelligence malpractice in the Russiagate probe -- is now facing DOJ investigation for "possible improper disclosure of classified information." washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
Nature of the probe is unclear. Given the serious intel malfeasance & major evidentiary holes that Patel helped expose in the Trump-Russia probe, I have to wonder if this politically motivated retaliation. It's curious that there are no details on what he's being eyed for. Image
As WP article notes, Patel did a rare, extensive interview with me this year about his work investigating Russiagate.

Video/transcript here here: (thegrayzone.com/2021/02/23/hid…)

And my article on it here:
(realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/…) Image
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16 Apr
This extremist crank from Bellingcat — a guy so corrupt & sloppy that I exposed a hidden author writing his propaganda — is right about one thing: I’m testifying Friday to the UN Security Council on the Syria cover-up, along w/ two distinguished speakers. Image
Here’s what I’m talking about re: hidden author writing scam material for Nick Waters of NATO troll farm Bellingcat. thegrayzone.com/2021/03/24/aut…

#Bellingcaught - I never tire of saying it.
The UNSC meeting starts at 10am ET. I’ll post link here right before.
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13 Apr
It's been real, king. ✊🏼
We'll always have that time when -- just as OPCW's Syria cover-up was exposed -- Bellingcat quietly deleted a claim that it "partners" w/ OPCW, & @EliotHiggins tried to claim that the "partner" thing was a simply a lowly "copy and paste" error. 🤔
We'll also always have that time when Bellingcat was given an unsent, fraudulent OPCW letter, & then Eliot and gang tried to accuse me of concealing a letter that I couldn't have possibly received (oh and that also contained demonstrably false claims).
Read 5 tweets
13 Apr
Nothing to see here folks. The “evidence” collected by UK-US funded, Al Qaeda-allied “White Helmets” in an Al-Qaeda-controlled province didn’t have the packing tape altered, so rest assured we can trust it. If you dare doubt the AQ chain of custody, just look at our nice graphic:
There are two OPCW probes of Saraqib. First was by FFM; second was by IIT.

New IIT report uses "the findings of the FFM as a starting point" & "analysed the information received from the FFM." (pic 1)

Where did OPCW get "all samples" from? The White Helmets "(SCD). (pic 2-3)
Apologies to Al Qaeda & @EliotHiggins, but I defer to OPCW here: "The OPCW would never get involved in testing samples that our own inspectors don’t gather in the field, because we need to maintain chain of custody of samples from the field to the lab to ensure their integrity."
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12 Apr
The organization that censored its own investigation and scientists in the April 2018 Douma probe wants us to pretend that it has any credibility to weigh in on others, and isn't being directed by the exact same imperatives behind the unaddressed Douma cover-up:
Unsurprisingly, @OPCW misrepresents its report: "IIT concludes that units of the Syrian Arab Air Force used chemical weapons in Saraqib." No, IIT -- just like w/ Douma -- uses the cowardly "reasonable grounds" qualifier. Why? They want to suggest guilt without having to prove it.
As dissenting OPCW insiders wrote about last IIT report: "Perhaps to the credit of IIT members who argued against more definitive, stronger language in their report, what the IIT produced was the desired Western opinion about what could have happened..." thegrayzone.com/2020/04/28/opc…
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9 Apr
Wow: BBC's @chloehadj, who produced a podcast whitewashing the UK state-funded White Helmets & the OPCW cover-up scandal, is nominated for an "Orwell Prize" too: orwellfoundation.com/journalist/chl…

On her Orwellian "reporting", see:
(thegrayzone.com/2020/11/30/que…)
&
(thegrayzone.com/2021/04/07/bbc…)
It's only fitting that @Bellingcat & @chloehadj get nominated for an "Orwell": after Bellingcat published false claims about the OPCW's Douma cover-up, Chloe recycled the same falsehoods. They also share UK state ties. Orwell would indeed be impressed. thegrayzone.com/2021/03/24/aut…
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