Es stellt sich die Frage : Erstellt Higgins seine „Enthüllungen“ anhand von User-Postings und Fleissarbeit oder haben die Geheimdienste entdeckt, dass man Higgins Material „zuspielen“ kann ?
Jedenfalls geling es Higgins in den meisten Fällen nicht, die Quellen seines Materials zu verifizieren !
Hier ein Beispiel : Wie Higgins falschen Infos des State Department aufsitzt :Mintpress am 15.04.2014 :
„Higgins’ determination would seem to support the Obama administration’s prior claim that Assad had crossed Obama’s “red line.” (..) However, the maps provided by the State Department at the time put such “regime-controlled areas” out the rockets’ range. Even Higgins now agrees the rockets probably had a range of about 2 kilometers. (..)
... C.J. Chivers, the same war correspondent who, like many, has extolled the virtues of the work of the Brown Moses blog.
Chivers reported on the investigation by the weapons experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The investigation “raised questions about the American government’s claims about the locations of launching points, and the technical intelligence behind them.”
“Whenever new information comes out it seems like people use it to support the idea that the Syrian government did it,” said Postol, the MIT professor. “According to our analysis, I would not have a claim that I know who executed the attack, but it’s very clear that John Kerry had very bad intelligence at best or, at worst, lied about the intelligence he had.” (..)
Shortly after the release of the MIT report this January, Higgins posted about it on his blog. The new findings, however, did not dissuade him from believing the attack still had to have been committed by Assad. Higgins is now pushing the theory that the Syrian army took over al-Qaboun, northwest of the target areas. (..) As for the work of Lloyd and Postol, Higgins says he accepts their findings, though he adds on his blog “with the greatest respect to the work of Lloyd and Postol I do not believe their calculations have been peer reviewed.”
“And he’s qualified to say that?” Postol asked incredulously. “In the end, the government lied.”
Despite their disagreements, one belief unites them: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry presented faulty intelligence, at best.
“I agree with Lloyd, Postol, Hersh, and anyone else who thinks that the maps provided by the White House don’t match the evidence gathered about the munitions,” Higgins wrote in an email to MintPress.
However, Higgins still insists on the establishment perspective that, despite contradictory analysis, Assad was absolutely behind the attacks.
That the Obama administration presented information it knew or should have known was inaccurate as a reason to go to war reminds Postol of recent history in which American mainstream media proved complicit in perpetuating the official line that Saddam Hussein absolutely had “weapons of mass destruction.”
When asked (..) why much of the mainstream press appears more interested in the “stay-at-home” blogger, Hersh demures, refusing to speak ill of his colleagues at The New Yorker or other reporters and editors at The Washington Post and The New York Times.
“They’re doing their jobs,” Hersh said.
Postol, on the other hand, does not hesitate to critique the state of mainstream media today.
“The government so specifically distorted the evidence that it presented a very real danger to the country and the world. I am concerned about the collapse of traditional journalism and the future of the country.”
http://www.mintpressnews.com/the-failed-pretext-for-war-seymour-hersh-eliot-higgins-mit-professors-on-sarin-gas-attack/188597/Dasselbe Lügen-Spiel der US-Regierung wie in Syrien und Irak wiederholt sich jetzt in der Ukraine.
Und Eliot Higgins (wissentlich oder nicht) unterstützt die Linie der USA. DESHALB wird er von westlichen Mainstream-Medien zum „Experten“ hochstilisiert !
Der von Higgins aufgezeigte Weg der BUK von Russland in den Donbass und zurück nach Russland krankt wie in Syrien daran, dass er die Frontlinien nicht beachtet hat.
Die BUK hätte durch Territorium fahren müssen, das klar in der Hand der ukrainischen Armee war.
Ein Fakt, den Higgins mit keinem Wort berücksichtigt !
Oder kann mir jemand Stellen aus dem Bellingcat Report zitieren, die auf die jeweiligen Frontlinien eingehen ?
