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Stable Genius said:
That's his argument?, that the light on the photo is different (even I can see the reflection of an open window in that pic as well as another one) and the dates of the awards photo's are out of order?... compared to that insanely high degree of exhaustive journalism?

  I'm not sure I agree with him about that.

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I just noticed that you did catch his picture being out of chronological order.  Apologies, I missed you saying that, but that seems very significant to me.

Regardless, I think the Wikipedia links clearly disproves Bellingcat claiming he was a Hero of Russia.

I guess "that insanely high degree of exhaustive journalism" wasn't very high at all, was it? 

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koods said:
Funny how you are perfectly ready to discount an investigator based on who is paying them when you don’t like his findings, like when the CIA pays Bellingcat. But, when Donald Trump pays Rudy Guiliani you seem much less skeptical of a finding that benefits the paid customer.

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Falcon91Wolvrn03 said:
Another member of the eight-member team sent to Douma from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) just came forward alleging that evidence was suppressed and a new report was written by senior managers with assertions that contradicted the findings.  He is the second member of the Douma Fact-Finding Mission that alleged that scientific evidence was suppressed (I wrote about the first here).

The OPCW and Douma: Chemical Weapons Watchdog Accused of Evidence-Tampering by Its Own Inspectors

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Imperialist propaganda firm Bellingcat has published a response to the ever-expanding OPCW scandal, and it’s got to be seen to be believed.

Before we begin I should highlight that Bellingcat is funded by the National Endowment for Democracy, which according to its own cofounder was set up to do overtly what the CIA had previously been doing covertly, namely orchestrating narrative management geared toward the elimination of governments which refuse to comply with US interests.

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Falcon91Wolvrn03 said:
...logic is something you avoid like the plague.

But prove me wrong and let's debate substance for a change... 

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koods said:
I’m not wasting my time reading agenda driven fake journalism. Look if you want to side with Bashar Assad, you have that right but I’m not interested in engaging with you on the opinion of some blogger.

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I'll summarize for people who have more of an interest in facts than koods does:

After a second OPCW inpector came out and said they found no evidence of a chemical weapons attack in Douma, Bellingcat wrote an article that all of the mainstream news sources repeated without question.

Bellingcat said the OPCW report changed the wording in it's "final" report of 1 Mar 2019 from its "interim" report of 6 July 2018 as follows:

6 Jul 18:  "The team has sufficient evidence at this time to determine that chlorine, or another reactive chlorine containing chemical, was likely released from cylinders"
1 Mar 19:  "It is possible that the cylinders were the source of the substances containing reactive chlorine"

Therefore, Bellingcat argues that the OPCW is off the hook.

The problem is that Bellingcat failed to mention that the levels of chlorine found were just the same as those found in the natural environment.