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Vidnesbyrd indgivet til domstolen i dag af den britiske regering viser uden for enhver tvivl, at Boris Johnson slet og ret har løjet om den grad af sikkerhed hvormed Porton Down vidensksfolkene har udtalt sig om hvorvidt Skripal er blevet forgiftet af et russisk "novichok" middel.

I går i et et interview med Deutsche Welle påstod Boris Johnson direkte, at Porton Down havde fortalt ham, at de med sikkerhed havde identificeret nervemidlet som russisk:
Du siger, at kilden til dette nervemiddel, Novichok, er russisk. Hvordan fandt du ud af det så hurtigt? Besidder Storbritannien prøver af det?

Lad mig være tydelig over for dig ... Når jeg ser på beviserne, jeg mener folkene fra Porton down, laboratoriet ...

Så de har prøver ...

Det har de. Og de er fuldstændigt kategoriske, og jeg spurgte selv fyren, jeg sagde: "Er du sikker?" Og han sagde, der er ingen tvivl.
Jeg har skrevet og offentliggjordt fra mine egne whistleblowers, at dette er løgn. Indtil nu kunne jeg ikke bevise det. Men i dag kan jeg fuldstændig bevise det, på grund af højesterettens kendelse som gav tilladelse til at nye prøver kan tages fra Skripal til brug i OPCW.


Kommentar: Delvist oversat af Sott.net fra Why Boris Johnson is Lying in Skripal Case
Ville det være uden for sammenhængen at fremdrage eksempler på at Boris Johnson også før er faldet på at fordreje sandheden, når det tjente hans hensigter:
Fra Wikipedia biografien. "He began his career in journalism at The Times but was sacked for falsifying a quotation"
Fra BBC den 17. juli 2007 er der detaljer om den episode: Boris Johnson's media scrapes
Fra Huffington Post 24. marts 2013: Boris Johnson Challenged By Eddie Mair On Lying Over Affairs, False Quotes And Wanting To Be PM
Fra Daily Mail 25. marts 2013: So, Boris, what IS the truth behind the accusations made in that bruising BBC encounter?
Fra Pink News 26. marts 2013: Boris Johnson: I was wrong to make up a quote about King Edward II and his gay lover Piers Gaveston
Fra Indy 100: 17 juni 2016: A journalist has shared a story about Boris Johnson that completely undermines his authority on the EU
Fra Independent: 27. juni 2016: Why are we so surprised that Boris Johnson lied when he's been sacked for lying twice before?
Fra New Statesman 1. juli 2016: Boris Johnson peddled absurd EU myths - and our disgraceful press followed his lead


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.