Thread by @Andre__Damon

✔️ Story revolves around quotes by unnamed govt sources
✔️ Palming off Atlantic Council fellow Jamie Metzl as some blogger
✔️ No mention of role played by Bannon and Guo
✔️ No discussion of US motives in pushing lab theory

I nominate @KatherineEban for Judith Miller prize

https://twitter.com/KatherineEban/status/1400403612325515266

✔️“absolutely arresting and shocking,” said a former State Department official
✔️“ reaction inside the State Department was, “Holy shit,” one former senior official recalled.
✔️repeatedly advised not to open a “Pandora’s box,” said four former State Department officials

Recall the eternal words of Judith Miller and Michael R. Gordon, and their endless citations of "Bush administration officials"

"The first sign of a 'smoking gun,' they argue, may be a mushroom cloud."

nytimes.com/2002/09/08/wor…

The hero of @KatherineEban's story is Matthew Pottinger, who is cited throughout.
"In 2017, he helped craft the administration’s national security strategy document that formally named China as a strategic competitor, labeling Beijing a “revisionist power"
washingtonpost.com/politics/matth…

"In an interview last fall, H.R. McMaster, who served as Trump’s second national security adviser, called Pottinger “central to the biggest shift in U.S. foreign policy since the Cold War, which is the competitive approach to China.”

washingtonpost.com/politics/matth…

"In an interview last fall, H.R. McMaster, who served as Trump’s second national security adviser, called Pottinger 'central to the biggest shift in U.S. foreign policy since the Cold War, which is the competitive approach to China.'"

washingtonpost.com/politics/matth…

Why do the advocates of the Wuhan lab conspiracy theory deliberately omit that its leading advocates are the architects of the US "cold war" against China? Because the purpose of this lie is to CONCEAL the predatory interests of US imperialism and the danger of war.