{"id":28244,"date":"2019-11-26T16:02:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T21:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=28244"},"modified":"2019-11-26T16:02:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T21:02:28","slug":"explosive-leaked-email-claims-that-un-watchdogs-report-into-alleged-poison-gas-attack-by-assad-was-doctored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/11\/26\/explosive-leaked-email-claims-that-un-watchdogs-report-into-alleged-poison-gas-attack-by-assad-was-doctored\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosive leaked email claims that UN watchdog&#8217;s report into alleged poison gas attack by Assad was doctored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Daily Mail <\/em>has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7718627\/Sexed-dossier-furore-alleged-poison-gas-attack-Assad.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">New sexed-up dossier furore: Explosive leaked email claims that UN watchdog&#8217;s report into alleged poison gas attack by Assad was doctored &#8211; so was it to justify British and American missile strikes on Syria?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBut a dissenting scientist, employed by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) says in a leaked email that investigations on the ground at Douma have produced no hard evidence that the alleged gas attack took place.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that these facts were deliberately suppressed in published OPCW reports.<\/p>\n<p>The email makes no attempt to suggest what did happen in Douma. It simply points out that hard evidence, gathered and examined by non-political scientists, does not support the officially endorsed version. And it claims that this resulted in the OPCW redacting the report to the extent that its conclusions were misrepresented.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is what I have been saying since this smear tactic was first used by the USA.  I have reports from people like Vanessa Beely that I posted on my blog to back up my skepticism.  The destruction of Tulsi Gabbard by the oligarchs&#8217; news media goes on because she refuses to repeat the lies of the oligarchs&#8217; news media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Mail has the article New sexed-up dossier furore: Explosive leaked email claims that UN watchdog&#8217;s report into alleged poison gas attack by Assad was doctored &#8211; so was it to justify British and American missile strikes on Syria? But a dissenting scientist, employed by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) [&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":["post-28244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28244","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=28244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28245,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28244\/revisions\/28245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}