The Mystery of a Ukrainian Army "Defector"

[unhappycamper]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Mystery-of-a-Ukrainian-by-Robert-Parry-Intelligence_Killing_Media_Russia-140722-948.html

The Mystery of a Ukrainian Army "Defector"
By Robert Parry
OpEdNews Op Eds 7/22/2014 at 23:22:08

As the U.S. government seeks to build its case blaming eastern Ukrainian rebels and Russia for the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, the evidence seems to be getting twisted to fit the preordained conclusion, including a curious explanation for why the troops suspected of firing the fateful missile may have been wearing Ukrainian army uniforms.

On Tuesday, mainstream journalists, including for the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post, were given a briefing about the U.S. intelligence information that supposedly points the finger of blame at the rebels and Russia. While much of this circumstantial case was derived from postings on "social media," the briefings also addressed the key issue of who fired the Buk anti-aircraft missile that is believed to have downed the airliner killing all 298 people onboard.

~snip~

That requires a serious and impartial investigation, but what the Obama administration and most of the mainstream U.S. news media have delivered so far is another example of "information warfare," assembling a case to make an adversary look bad regardless of the actual evidence -- and then marginalizing any dissents to the desired conclusion.

That was exactly the "group think" that led the United States into the disastrous invasion of Iraq -- and it appears that few if any lesson were learned.