Craig Murray Exposes Shoddy Propaganda on Skripal Poisoning

It is interesting that the column inches published on the Skripal poisoning have plummeted this weekend. No doubt it has something to do with Craig Murray's efforts to expose government pressure put on scientists at Porton Down to say the nerve agent used on the Skripals was made in Russia.

As Murray notes in several blog posts (for instance, "Boris Johnson Attempt to Refute My Sources on Porton Down the Most Hilarious Fail"), the refusal of scientists to knuckle under has led to the awkward wording “of a type developed by Russia."

The inability to move beyond this wording has exposed PM May's ballyhooed performance in parliament last week as yet another high stakes dog and pony show.

As Murray explained in a post yesterday:

Several million people have now read my articles on the lack of evidence of Russian government guilt for the Salisbury attack. That’s over 300,000 unique visitors on this little blog alone so far, and it has been repeated on hundreds of sites all over the internet. My own tweets on the subject have been retweeted over 12,500 times and received 8 million impressions. I know that journalists from every mainstream media outlet you can mention have seen the material, because of numerous tweets from them none of which address any of the facts, but instead call me a “Conspiracy nutter” or variants of that, some very rude.

Yet what I wrote has not been refuted. It would be very easy to refute were it not true. The government would just have to say “Porton Down have stated that they have definitely identified the nerve agent as made in Russia”. They have not said that. Most extraordinarily, not one mainstream media “journalist” has asked a minister the question: “You keep using this phrase the nerve agent is “of a type developed by Russia”. Are you able to confirm it was actually made in Russia?” .

There is no excuse for this. Literally hundreds of mainstream media “journalists” have slavishly reproduced the propaganda phrase “of a type developed by Russia” without a single one of them every querying this rather odd wording, or why it is the government always uses that precise wording again and again and again.