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> Compare Seymour Hersh's codswallop on the Skripal affair with the excellent work done by Bellingcat. Done. Bellingcat exists as a parallel construction for U
by pessimizer 4y ago
> Compare Seymour Hersh's codswallop on the Skripal affair with the excellent work done by Bellingcat.
Done. Bellingcat exists as a parallel construction for US and British intelligence agencies and its only other purpose is to smear non-state controlled journalistic outlets. There was a leaked email from another source that indicates that even internally, US intelligence agencies don't think that Bellingcat is still a good way to spread information because normal people don't believe it any more.
On the other side, Hersh is a journalist with a long track record who wrote a story that is likely true, although we won't know until if and until comes out. Won't stop nationalists from pretending that they know something that they don't. They love a traitor.
- ErikCorry 4y agoYou didn't engage with the truth of their respective Skripal affair output at all. I could have mentioned Hersh's account of the killing of Bin Laden too. At this point his track record is a lot longer than it is good. I can't keep giving him free passes based on good work done almost 50 years ago