Posted on 04/04/2018 7:27:44 PM PDT by NorseViking
Boris Johnson under pressure to explain whether position has changed after tweet blaming Moscow is deleted.
Boris Johnson is facing embarrassing questions over his claims that Russia had produced the Salisbury nerve agent after it emerged that the Foreign Office had deleted a tweet blaming Moscow for the attack.
With the foreign secretary already under pressure over his remarks two weeks ago that a Porton Down scientist had been “absolutely categorical” that the novichok had originated in the country, Jeremy Corbyn accused Johnson of “completely exceeding the information he had been given” after the emergence of the deleted tweet.
But Johnson later hit back, accusing the Labour leader of “playing Russia’s game”.
The deletion, immediately seized on by the Russian embassy, has deepened the government’s difficulties after British scientists at the UK’s defence research laboratory announced on Tuesday that they had not established that the nerve agent used to poison Sergei and Yulia Skripal had been made in Russia.
After Porton Down said it had “not identified the precise source” of the poison, the Foreign Office issued a swift rebuttal saying the prime minister had always been clear that the assessment was “only one part” of the intelligence picture.
The announcement prompted claims from the Kremlin that Britain was lying about the origins of the novichok and demanded an apology from Theresa May.
However, it emerged on Wednesday that the Foreign Office had earlier deleted a tweet claiming the British scientists had concluded that the nerve agent was “produced in Russia”.
In an awkward development for the Foreign Office, the Russian embassy’s Twitter feed pointed out that the 20 March tweet on a presentation by Britain’s ambassador to Moscow on the Salisbury attack had disappeared.
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not the only embarrassment for Boris:
4 Apr: Zerohedge: All Russiagate Roads Lead To London As Evidence Emerges Of Joseph Mifsud’s Links To UK Intelligence
by Elizabeth Lea Vos
The final nail in the coffin of the theory that Mifsud is a Russian spy is this photograph of Mifsud standing next to Boris Johnson, the UK Foreign Secretary, as reported by The Guardian. The photograph, taken in October 2017 – nearly a full year after the US Presidential election and nine months after Mifsud’s name appeared in newspaper headlines worldwide as allegedly involved in Russian meddling in that election – is either highly embarrassing for the hapless Mr Johnson, or it’s not, because Joseph Mifsud is actually a valued and security-vetted asset to the United Kingdom...
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-04/all-russiagate-roads-lead-london-evidence-emerges-joseph-mifsuds-links-uk
Are we going to find out Theresa May raised a False Flag, or orchestrated one?? A pretty easy mark. Two Russian spies defected to London. Russia is deadly when betrayed. A perfect foil, in this era of intrigue.
The whole ‘Russia meddling in the elections’ is now increasingly looking more like a British-Ukrainian operation to help Hillary.
And they were rather incompetent at it starting with their ridiculous pee-pee dossier.
Wag the dog Brit style. The whole story unfolded during the rape gang and Brexit crisis wiping it out from headlines.
Excellent point.
Putin is a ruthless semi-dictator perfectly capable of ordering killings if it benefits Russia or his personal power in Russia. The killing some years ago via the use of polonium or the recent attempt using nerve agents caused Russia and Putin grief with no benefit. It must be commented that Russia as we posses chemical agents that kill quickly and can mimic a heart attack. The use of polonium and unusual nerve agents plants a possible false flag pointing at Russia.
Relative to the polonium poisoning some years ago they found traces of polonium on a British Airways flight from Moscow to London. This is insanely laughable. If this was a Russian State operation the polonium would be in a hermetically sealed container, probably a glass vial and completely clean on the outside of any contamination. Also why in the hell would they use British Airways instead of Aeroflot, the Russian airline. It was like they were laying out a red herring trail to Putin and Russia. If that had of actually been Putin it would have went to London in a sealed diplomatic pouch that could not be inspected in customs.
Unless Putin is a deranged psycho I do not think he ordered this to happen. He may be, but I do not think so.
The real question is who benefits by this? Putin does not. The bad guys could be internal to Russia or external to Russia.
Putin will always be our adversary on the world stage as history always has been between great powers. She does not need to be our avowed enemy as Russia was when she was the Soviet Union.
CUI BONO
Putin is a very bad man without doubt and capable of great evil deeds. I do not think he did this. He did not benefit from the killing via polonium nor the recent attempted killing with a sophisticated nerve agent. If one wanted to kill with a nerve agent and not point a finger at Russia, they should have used Sarin. You can cook this up in any lab if you are a sophisticated chemist. Sarin is just an extremely exquisitely toxic pesticide (anti cholinesterase inhibitor) that targets mammalian animals of which man is one. If you can make bug killer you can make Sarin.
Putin is a real SOB. I do not think he did this.
The Brits wanted to continue the Muh Russia narrative, they had good reasons to do so too.
Couldn’t sleep so I’m throwing a thought or two out.
I can’t remember whether it was the NSA or the CIA (not the FBI) but one these agencies lost their hacking tools to the world that were specifically designed to make us look like “somebody else” was the perp. Some other country, some other “bad guy”. Now we cannot tell who did what.
In particular, we, the defender of freedoms had tools to make it look like the Russians did it. No doubt we had other tools to make any country look responsible for whatever atrocity. I believe any such techniques utilized by us make us as bad as the bad guys (including our own citizens) that we disparage and disdain.
Given that, whatever I read, from whatever source, I have to consider whether its true or just the Deep State screwing with us, the media (at every level including MSM, LSM & the net and even us) affecting the global meme on whatever level, whatever story, whatever they want us to think and react to.
Please Ms./Mr. Admin. allow me to say SHIT! I’d also throw in WTF? What can we believe, what can we trust to base important decisions upon?
As far as I can tell in our modern 21st century society there is very little I can trust - even the light of freedom in the greatest country in the world because there is a deep state. I have no solution.
What do you do, what can you think? Was it us trying to make it look like them and in other cases them trying to make it look like us?
The main problem is that the LSM/MSM cannot be trusted because they clearly have an agenda and so we have to sort out the various net articles to separate the plausible fact-based information from conspiracy theories that only cloud reality.
While I do not have “the” solution I do have a couple of thoughts on how to proceed to protect our freedoms, privacy and prosperity.
Posting because I went through the hunt and peck typing trouble of setting this up.
This is really just sort of a bookmark to remind me of an old project that needs to be brought back to our somewhat screwed up present for a better, more free, more clear future. YMMV.
Night.
It’s actually astounding to me how many people are buying the narrative on Skripal, especially here on FR. Aside from the absence of any evidence whatsoever, Russian intelligence would quite literally have to be run by retarded monkeys in order for them to even consider an operation of this sort.
Well, think about pee-pee dossier. It is no less moronic but there are people believing in it too. Courtesy of British ‘intelligence’.
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