Craig Murray writes:
Evidence
submitted by the British government in court today proves, beyond any doubt,
that Boris Johnson has been point blank lying about the degree of certainty
Porton Down scientists have about the Skripals being poisoned with a Russian
“novichok” agent.
You argue that the source of this nerve agent, Novichok,
is Russia. How did you manage to find it out so quickly? Does Britain possess
samples of it?
Let me be clear with you … When I look at the evidence, I
mean the people from Porton Down, the laboratory …
I knew and had published from my own
whistleblowers that this is a lie. Until now I could not prove
it. But today I can absolutely prove it, due to the judgement at the High Court case which
gave permission for new blood samples to be taken from the Skripals for use by
the OPCW. Justice Williams included in his judgement a summary of the evidence
which tells us, directly for the first time, what Porton Down have actually
said:
The Evidence
16. The evidence in support of the application is contained within the applications
themselves (in particular the Forms COP 3) and the witness statements.
17. I consider the following to be the relevant parts of the evidence. I shall
identify the
witnesses only by their role and shall summarise the essential elements of
their
evidence.
i) CC: Porton Down Chemical and Biological Analyst
Blood samples from Sergei Skripal and Yulia Skripal were analysed and the
findings indicated exposure to a nerve agent or related compound. The samples
tested positive for the presence of a Novichok class nerve agent OR CLOSELY
RELATED AGENT.
The emphasis is mine. This sworn Court
evidence direct from Porton Down is utterly incompatible with what Boris
Johnson has been saying. The truth is that Porton Down have not even positively
identified this as a “Novichok”, as opposed to “a closely related agent”. Even
if it were a “Novichok” that would not prove manufacture in Russia, and a
“closely related agent” could be manufactured by literally scores of state and
non-state actors.
This constitutes irrefutable evidence that the
government have been straight out lying – to Parliament, to the EU, to NATO, to
the United Nations, and above all to the people – about their degree of
certainty of the origin of the attack. It might well be an attack originating
in Russia, but there are indeed other possibilities and investigation is
needed. As the government has sought to whip up jingoistic hysteria in advance
of forthcoming local elections, the scale of the lie has daily increased.
On a sombre note, I am very much afraid the
High Court evidence seems to indicate there is very little chance the Skripals
will ever recover; one of the reasons the judge gave for his decision is that
samples taken now will be better for analysis than samples taken post mortem.
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The state and corporate media now have
evidence of the vast discrepancy between what May and Johnson are saying, and
the truth about the Porton Down scientists’ position. I am afraid to say I
expect this to make no difference whatsoever to the propaganda output of the
BBC.
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