Posted on 03/10/2022 6:32:02 AM PST by MarvinStinson
Fox News National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin appeared on Hannity where she addressed recent Russian propaganda claiming the U.S. has secret bioweapon labs in Ukraine.
Griffin said, “Those are Soviet-era biolabs that the U.S. has been engaged [with] since 2005 in trying to help Ukraine convert the research facilities safely.”
“In Uzbekistan, for instance,” Griffin said, “the US eliminated nearly 12 tons of weaponized anthrax from an island in the Aral Sea in 2001.”
Griffin reiterated the concern that U.S. officials have that Russia is only making these claims as a pretext to their own use of these types of weapons.
“White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Moscow’s talk today about these biolabs has led to concern by U.S. intelligence,” Griffin said, “that Russia could use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine to create a false flag operation using them.”
Griffin’s reporting on the Russian claim stood in sharp contrast to what Tucker Carlson said. Carlson, who has been accused of pushing Russian propaganda on multiple occasions, took the admission by Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland that there are biological research labs in Ukraine as an admission of guilt. Carlson not only played a clip of a Russian official making the claim, but went on to propagate it himself.
“Ukraine is the poorest country in Europe,” Carlson said. “It’s hardly a hotbed of biomedical research. We’re assuming these weren’t pharmaceutical labs. Probably not developing new leukemia drugs. From your answer, Victoria Nuland, we would assume, because you all but said it, there’s a military application of this research. They’re working on bioweapons.”
Griffin pointed out that U.S. involvement with these labs is neither new nor secret.
“ But what Russia does is they take that information, distort it, turn it around and turn it into disinformation.”
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And why didn’t Nuland just answer ‘no’ when Micro Rubio asked her the simple question about whether Ukraine had bioweapons?
When someone answers a different question than the one that was asked, they’re hiding something.
If Jennifer was an actual ‘journalist’ she would know this. (Rewriting gubermint press releases is not journalism.)
They should fire her.
She didn’t contradict a damn thing. She just read the Pentagon’s propaganda. There was no reporting at all.
And Tucker had read the same sheet and dissected it. Just because something isn’t meant as a weapon, doesn’t mean it can’t be used as such. And if so, then why would we be funding that?
Agree or disagree, he asked a legit question. Griffin gave the impression of throwing a tantrum.
As well she should if you have any understanding of Russia, history, security matters, and reality you would know that Tucker has on guests who are the worst tools of the left and of Russia.
Like the former colonel who has been appearing on Russian state television for years criticizing the United States and supporting Russia’s aggressiveness.
I suspect that I am not the only one who is seeing that Hannity has become a war-mongering neo-con.
Hannity brings on guests who will say stuff that aligns with his views of getting tough against Russia.
She should debate Tucker Carlson. Would be fun to watch.
She doesn't possess knowledge or reason, she just regurgitates what she is told by deep state representatives.
We have at least learned that Ukraine does have high-security biolabs, researching dangerous pathogens - and that the USA Government was funding them.
But perhaps many nations have such labs, also for legitimate purposes. Its also likely Fed.gov is giving money to many of them - again, possibly for defensible reasons, but as we saw with Wuhan, possibly also with disastrous consequences.
The wonders of dialectical thinking. We shouldn't form any opinion yet. Its a very complex topic - I hope Griffin and Carlson continue to battle it out in public. This is exactly how truth is discovered.
Kerfuffle over not much. Point to the nation that is the biggest genetic bio-weapons researcher in the world - hint, not Ukraine, not Russia, not USA. Hummm, wonder who that could be?
10 years ago I realized that Hannity was a right-wing Rachel Maddow.
Yeah, and with the CIA, who are always honest and trustworthy.
Excellent!!!
You are absolutely correct. Re-focusing those labs wouldn't take more than a year - if that. Griffen is an idiot reading copy and believing the tripe that is being spoon fed to her. Does she really believe that the Ukraine was able to get rid of all its nukes, but not convert these labs after all these years? There's a reason she's a 'journalist' and not an engineer. I'm sorry, but it's a valid observation.
Neocons need a new war after botching the last one.
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Griffin simply reads what she’s handed.
How is that any different than Baghdad Bob?
She’s a Never Trumper and so is her husband.
She was embedded in Hillary’s Campaign but couldn’t manage a single negative story of a woman that should’ve been facing Indictments.
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Jennifer Griffin reported that Trump was going to fire Mueller, but he won’t stop there, he’s going to fire Rosenstein, too.
She’s a DEM hack.
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She is a spook.
According to my Feds to English translator “helped dispose of” means “took possession of”.
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