Moon of Alabama has the article Kerry Lies, Repeats Debunked State Department Claim.

Yesterday the New York Times Public Editor criticized the paper’s handling of the story:

It all feels rather familiar – the rushed publication of something exciting, often based on an executive branch leak. And then, afterward, with a kind of “morning after” feeling, here comes a more sober, less prominently displayed followup story, to deal with objections while not clarifying much of anything.

The pictures from the coup government in Ukraine distributed through the U.S. State Department are obviously fakery and purely anti-Russian propaganda. The story of Russian “special operations personnel” in east-Ukraine is a lie. It has been debunked as such in several U.S. publications. Despite that Kerry yesterday repeated it proving himself to be exactly what Putin had claimed, a liar.

I have read and viewed many of the sources mentioned in this blog post by Moon of Alabama. Moon of Alabama has assembled these pieces in a well constructed way that is worth featuring on my blog.

For those who think they know what Russia is up to because they have bought into the lies that the US is telling, I refer back to my Mark Twain quote, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”

I also find it gratifying that The New York Times Public Editor is as skeptical as I am about the (mis)information that the newspaper so often publishes.