{"id":25376,"date":"2018-04-04T11:34:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T15:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=25376"},"modified":"2018-04-04T11:37:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T15:37:33","slug":"uk-government-deletes-tweet-about-russian-spys-poisoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2018\/04\/04\/uk-government-deletes-tweet-about-russian-spys-poisoning\/","title":{"rendered":"UK government deletes tweet about Russian spy&#8217;s poisoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>CNN<\/em> has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/04\/04\/europe\/salisbury-uk-government-deleted-tweet-intl\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UK government deletes tweet about Russian spy&#8217;s poisoning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBritain&#8217;s claim that Moscow was behind the poisoning of a former Russian spy faced fresh scrutiny Wednesday when it emerged the UK government had deleted a tweet blaming Russia for producing the nerve agent used in the attack.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This English bicycle is being back pedaled so fast, that the feet on the pedals are a blur.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, never let it be said that the English bulldog will change its mind despite the evidence or lack thereof.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Foreign Office spokesperson said the decision to delete the tweets did not change the UK government&#8217;s assessment that Russia was responsible for the &#8220;brazen and reckless act&#8221; of poisoning the Skripals.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This last quote shows that the British government has no sense of shame at all.  Laughing is now permitted.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe British delegation to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) slammed a Russian proposal for a joint investigation into the incident as &#8220;perverse,&#8221; describing it as a &#8220;diversionary tactic&#8221; aimed at evading questions over Moscow&#8217;s alleged role in the attack.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN has the article UK government deletes tweet about Russian spy&#8217;s poisoning. Britain&#8217;s claim that Moscow was behind the poisoning of a former Russian spy faced fresh scrutiny Wednesday when it emerged the UK government had deleted a tweet blaming Russia for producing the nerve agent used in the attack. This English bicycle is being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25376"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25379,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25376\/revisions\/25379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}