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Another fearless Carole Cadwalladr thread uncovers the murky Russian links to UK Govt

Forget the peerage, the real scandal is the national security failure exposed in this thread.

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2022-03-15 11:40
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Fearless journalist Carole Cadwalladr has exposed yet more links between Russia and the UK government.

Honing in on the Salisbury poisonings, the Guardian journalist said that we “need to understand” that the use of the Novichok nerve agent meant that there could have been a mass murder event on British soil, and it was “only by fluke” that it didn’t happen.

She said the Skripal attack “is the definition of hybrid warfare: a combined military and information operation” that carried a “stark, unmistakeable message”.

While NATO took it as such, acting swiftly and unanimously, Boris Johnson proved to be the “weak link” following the attack.

She alleges that his connections with Evgeny Lebedev could be partly to blame for his inaction in this blistering thread.

Read it in full below:

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NEW: Johnson's relationship with Lebedev snr, isn't a scandal. It's a profound national security failure.

We need to understand Skripal poisoning was a mass murder narrowly averted.

And Johnson's illicit meeting with Kremlin proxy begs urgent questionshttps://t.co/BHcmCxIZGH

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) March 13, 2022

2.

Here's why I think the events of March & April 2018 need urgent attention.

Fiona Hill was national security advisor on Russia to Trump & 2 other presidents.

And for her Skripal poisoning is proof that Putin can and will unconventional weapons. Because he already has.
2/ pic.twitter.com/iDuruglBVd

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) March 13, 2022

3.

There was enough Novichok in Salisbury to wipe out the entire town.

It was only because of the flukiest fluke that it didn't. By this reading, Charlie Rowley & Dawn Sturgess are the accidental heroes who saved thousands of lives.

3/ pic.twitter.com/CJ2NMNcCUZ

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) March 13, 2022

4.

Chemical weapons have been banned since 1925. But that's what the Novichok was: a weapon grade nerve agent.

And here's what else you need to know about that pretty Wiltshire market town where Skripal lived. It's also the heart of the British military establishment.

4/ pic.twitter.com/9rLQSO7onY

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) March 13, 2022

5.

The Skripal attack is the definition of hybrid warfare: a combined military and information operation. That carried a stark, unmistakeable message.

And NATO took it as such. They acted swiftly & unanimously: sanctions & expulsions.

But there was one weak link: Boris Johnson
5/ pic.twitter.com/XB3Vdkegej

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) March 13, 2022

6.

1 year later, @guardian revealed Johnson left crucial NATO meeting & flew to Lebedev's villa.

4 months later, we at @observeruk revealed Alexander Lebedev flew in to meet him.

And it's this, this, THIS that's crucial point.

Because Lebedev has to be seen as Kremlin proxy.
6/ pic.twitter.com/anJxstkhBp

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) March 13, 2022

7.

Boris Johnson met ex KGB spy immediately after crucial NATO meeting on Russia after it deployed a chemical weapon in a British town.

He had no security. No-one knew.

But he was not sacked or questioned by police or PM.

Because by the time we found it out, he *was* the PM.
7/ pic.twitter.com/K19gIMSpIj

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) March 13, 2022

8.

If we can't see this now, we never will.

This has been in plain sight since we reported it in November 2019.

The Intelligence & Security Committee confirmed a cover-up over the Russia Report. A cover-up in which all roads lead back to one man: Boris Johnson
8/ pic.twitter.com/oDO222BBOG

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) March 13, 2022

9.

The r/w press has finally discovered Lebedev-Johnson axis. But it's still focussing on wrong details at wrong time. Forget the peerage.

That horse had already bolted. It's THIS 👇

Johnson's actions jeopardised NATO security@davidlammy @chrisbryant @IoWBobSeely @TomTugendhat pic.twitter.com/SA8UZX4iRC

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) March 13, 2022

10

Realised that I'd written a slightly different version of this piece 2 years ago in 2020. And there's another version of it 3 years before that in 2017.

"If Boris Johnson acts like a Russian asset and talks like a Russian asset, is he a Russian asset?"https://t.co/emYxxsWMbC

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) March 13, 2022

Related: Watch: Javid defends Lebedev peerage as thread uncovers murky issues surrounding underfire Lord

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