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@timtron2020

Mar 13, 2022 • 11 tweets • 9 min read • Read on X

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#CaroleCadwalladr, seen here with her friend, the "ex-spy" Christopher Steele, has evidently been ordered to re-heat the #Skripal #Salisbury #novichok story (which Steele was involved with) because of the "biolabs" found in #Ukraine. So let's deconstruct her #disinformation. 1/11

#CaroleCadwalladr has long been known to be associated with UK intelligence. Documents reveal her connection to the discredited 'Integrity Initiative', a project intended to build a network of client journalists to promote the establishment's agenda. 2/11

https://twitter.com/Truth_is_Satire/status/1503026627760033792?s=20&t=PjP0B042nrtWTerTM33E7Q

This is the article we'll quickly look at, which #CaroleCadwalladr had published in The Observer today. We will see that she is the antithesis of an investigative journalist, carefully avoiding the important questions about stories like the #Skripals. 3/11 theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/m…

#CaroleCadwalladr begins with some widely shared and believed #disinformation. The first person to cast doubt on Cadwalladr's bald assertion here that #Putin ordered the #Salisbury #novichok attack was the PM at the time, Theresa May. May's early statement was then ignored. 4/11

@Bynickdavies

Years ago The Guardian/Observer used to employ real investigative journalists instead of people working for the establishment. One of the best, @Bynickdavies, explains here the significance of May's #Skripal statement and what it means for journalism. 5/11

https://twitter.com/timtron2020/status/1428657214181584898?s=20&t=JEybyRt6HzkrQ7hQXR4Ysw

#Cadwalladr says #Salisbury is the heart of the British military. She can't acknowledge that the two Russians humiliated themselves on RT, so turns that on its head. But maybe she'd say it explains why the army's most senior nurse found the #Skripals. 6/11

https://twitter.com/timtron2020/status/1387034790302416900?s=20&t=odjac-HCta5YSmp9kJdezA

#Cadwalladr would never ask how these two "Russian soldiers", apparently active for years, were able to get into the UK. Is there a record of their visa applications? Carole doesn't care. She doesn't care that there's no footage of them approaching #Skripal's house. And... 7/11

...she doesn't care that the bottle she says the Russians threw away - and turned up ~four months later, miles away in Amesbury - was boxed and sealed in plastic as new according to Charlie Rowley, who apparently found it in his flat. Carole would *never* ask such questions. 8/11

It was almost four months later (#Salisbury 4 Mar; #Amesbury 30 Jun). More importantly Rowley didn't "fish" the bottle out of a bin. This is a false narrative that it's Carole's job to re-enforce. In fact Rowley has no idea where the bottle came from. 9/11

https://twitter.com/timtron2020/status/1287730453672329216?s=20&t=ENCVNjgY1Vvvv8ClG73HTQ

Carole mentions #Trump but omits that the CIA lied to him about this case. The #Skripals fed bread to ducks in #Salisbury shortly after their hands had touched this weapon of mass destruction. No ducks were hurt, but the CIA told Trump they'd died. 10/11

https://twitter.com/timtron2020/status/1387032389277429761?s=20&t=YtyBQ5RXkuOHkzoBZaY0Hw

I could go on, but from here #Cadwalladr develops an attack on the UK government for its Russian connections, having done the job of establishing in the minds of Guardian readers that the #Skripal narrative is beyond question. This fake, limited opposition is her function. 11/11

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There is so much deception, distraction and lies in this part of the #DawnSturgess inquiry -- the closing statements of Lisa Giovannetti KC -- that a thread is required to address them. The timestamp for her statement in the inquiry YT stream is here. 1/10

Giovannetti begins with a lone accurate statement addressing Lord Hughes. "You may consider you can't place... weight on [Charlie Rowley's] account [because his memory is very poor]," she says.

This is true. Rowley's account is totally unreliable and should be dismissed. 2/10

Instead of admitting Rowley's account is fundamentally inadmissable, Giovannetti instead engages in speculation about Rowley's movements and his practice of "bin-dipping". That inquiry has not heard in person from the key witness here -- Rowley himself -- doesn't stop her. 3/10

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Interesting testimony was given by the anonymous Porton Down expert "MK26" on Day 16 of the #DawnSturgess inquiry, when there was no YT feed: only a transcript was published. MK26 is asked about these remarks President Putin made back in 2018, after the #Skripal poisonings. 1/5

Putin is of course suggesting that the poison the #Skripals were exposed to was not in fact a "military grade" neurotoxin as the UK claimed, because if it had been they would have died instantly or very shortly after exposure; this suggestion is recorded in the transcript. 2/5

The response of MK26 is revealing. They do *not* respond to Putin's suggestion that the poison was not in fact a "military grade" neurotoxin as the UK claims (ie not #novichok at all). Instead MK26 avoids Putin's point by pointing out that the #Skripals and Rowley survived. 3/5

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Nov 22

To address this photograph of the #Skripals. I think it was taken in Zizzi's restaurant but it wasn't taken on the day the Skripals were poisoned; it's from an earlier visit Yulia made to Salisbury with her brother. He is the photographer, not Skripal's handler Pablo Miller. 1/5

https://x.com/timtron2020/status/1851186941556892036

It should be clear that this picture was not taken on the day the Skripals were poisoned because here they are wearing different clothes to those we see them wearing on CCTV from that day; Yulia's hair is also completely different in this photograph. 2/5

https://x.com/timtron2020/status/1851186941556892036

The photograph first appeared in reports of the Skripal event four days later, when it was distributed to the media by the image agency Shutterstock; I believe it was taken from Yulia's social media. If we zoom in on the photographer we can see it's Yulia's brother, Alex. 3/5

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Nov 15

As we know a problem with the fake #novichok bottle allegedly used to poison the #Skripals is that Charlie Rowley said it was boxed and sealed in plastic, with the pump dispenser unattached inside. While assembling it he spilled the deadly neurotoxin on himself, but survived. 1/3

Sceptics of the #Skripal story have joked that the two Russians in Salisbury must have brought with them a portable heat sealing device, with which they re-sealed the bottle (after the suicidally dangerous process of taking it apart for no reason) before dumping it somewhere. 2/3

As utterly ridiculous as that sounds, today at the #DawnSturgess inquiry Keith Asman -- head of forensics for the southeast counter-terrorism unit -- said that's exactly what he believes happened. He actually said he thinks the Russians had a "portable heat sealer" with them. 3/3

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An interesting side-effect of the #DawnSturgess inquiry is how it is slowly but significantly undermining the credibility of @MarkUrban01. Urban is the BBC reporter who did most to establish the official narrative about the #Skripals with his book 'The #Skripal Files' (2018) 1/7

Urban was seemingly interviewing #Skripal for a book (ostensibly about the "Illegals Program" spies) *before* the poisoning. He was initially unwilling to admit this connection to Skripal, referring to "people who've met him" in his early reports. 2/7 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegals_…

The #DawnSturgess inquiry has established that the #Skripals were apparently at home around 12pm when two Russian assassins allegedly walked into the cul-de-sac where Sergei lived and sprayed his front door with a "lethal" nerve agent that failed to kill him or his daughter. 3/7

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The testimony of Dr Stephen Cockroft is perhaps the most interesting of the #DawnSturgess inquiry so far; he was an excellent witness. He tells us Yulia #Skripal woke up after another doctor ordered a "sedation hold" (a pause in her sedation). This is routine as he explains: 1/7

Dr Cockcroft says he was "gobsmacked": what amazed him was how "neurologically intact" Yulia was when she woke up. He expected her to have suffered catastrophic brain damage, but this was clearly not the case. She was "looking at me, nodding... crying, she was... terrified". 2/7

Yulia was then sedated again: but Dr Cockcroft had discovered she was seemingly neurologically unharmed just four days after her poisoning. Because of this (and because he asked her if she had been "sprayed" with something) he was removed from the ICU. 3/7 theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/o…