This is a pretty simple call. Retired released former spy is not the same as an active terrorist.Just not the same thing.That doesn't mean we are innocent, but exacting retribution on a class of people to intimidate your own citizens is objectively worse than killing terrorists.
Note: as we look at Russia's attempted assassination of Skripal and other suspicious deaths, ask how Pompeo's assassination squads differ (aside from not using nerve agents).https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/974688951536705536 …
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Oh really. Do you have a link to 1) the reasons RU killed Skripal 2) what the standards for an "active terrorist" are?
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1) No. Do you have a more plausible reason? 2) You called them terrorists in your tweet. I'm using your premise. And for a third time, I'm not saying either is okay. Just saying they are not objectively the same.
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Umm. That was the title of the piece. The word "terrorist" is even more meaningless than "defector." THAT's the entire point. Pompeo's idea of terrorist MIGHT include defectors.
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I'm normally all in favor of waiting on attribution, but RU public comments seemed to be almost gleeful about this one.
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So your logic is RU laughed bc ... why not?
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"Russia" can laugh or cry, doesn't change the facts about the chemical attack. By your logic if they denied, they would not be under suspicion.
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Come on. Defectors do not = terrorists. SAC is just doing what JSOC has done since Escobar.
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A guy who goes to ISIS to run their online media: Defector or terrorist? Iranian Colonel who works as a military advisor for an Iranian ally: Defector or terrorist? Neo-Nazi who moves to Ukraine and helps RU to steal election: Defector or terrorist?
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Amazing that 30 years after the "End of History" we still have lots of dirty gangsters and spooks doing what they did when we still had history.
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And we don't know for sure, what they use to kill.
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Was the investigation completed? Was there an official announcement? Did I miss it?
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If the CIA took out a suspected terrorist on UK soil without the blessing/cooperation of the UK authorities, the UK would be rightly pissed.
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Difference (to them, not me): Putin is killing rich oligarchs in UK, where Trump is killing swarthy poor folks in shithole countries?
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