Now that @Bellingcat has admitted that it published disinformation ( https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1321848573680619522?s=20),">https://twitter.com/aaronjmat... let& #39;s look at those who tried to accuse others of doing what Bellingcat in fact did themselves, and even gloated that the falsely premised article was some kind of vindication.
Let& #39;s start with @Bellingcat& #39;s @N_Waters89, a likely author of the anonymously bylined & discredited Bellingcat piece.

Nick has deleted a number of tweets, but luckily I saved them for us. #Bellingcaught
. @N_Waters89:

"For anyone who& #39;s been paying attention, it was clear the & #39;OPCW leaks& #39; were based on flawed information from the start.

The correspondence we obtained proves it. There was a coverup, but it wasn& #39;t the OPCW doing it."

Nope:
. @N_Waters89:"For anyone who& #39;s been paying attention, it was clear the & #39;OPCW leaks& #39; were based on flawed information from the start.The correspondence we obtained proves it. There was a coverup, but it wasn& #39;t the OPCW doing it."Nope:
. @N_Waters89:"For anyone who& #39;s been paying attention, it was clear the & #39;OPCW leaks& #39; were based on flawed information from the start.The correspondence we obtained proves it. There was a coverup, but it wasn& #39;t the OPCW doing it."Nope:
. @N_Waters89: "...Peter Hitchens, Aaron Mate, Robert Fisk, Wikileaks, the Courage Foundation and others have been caught red handed either practicing & #39;journalism& #39; of the most shoddy kind, or participating in a cover-up of a chemical attack."
( https://twitter.com/N_Waters89/status/1320742686077440000?s=20)

Deleted:">https://twitter.com/N_Waters8...
. @N_Waters89: "...Peter Hitchens, Aaron Mate, Robert Fisk, Wikileaks, the Courage Foundation and others have been caught red handed either practicing & #39;journalism& #39; of the most shoddy kind, or participating in a cover-up of a chemical attack."( https://twitter.com/N_Waters8...
. @N_Waters89: "...Peter Hitchens, Aaron Mate, Robert Fisk, Wikileaks, the Courage Foundation and others have been caught red handed either practicing & #39;journalism& #39; of the most shoddy kind, or participating in a cover-up of a chemical attack."( https://twitter.com/N_Waters8...
. @N_Waters89: "Mr Maté got played by his source because he didn’t do proper due diligence." ( https://twitter.com/N_Waters89/status/1320788386303672321?s=20)

Nope,">https://twitter.com/N_Waters8... Mr. Waters either got played by his source, didn& #39;t do proper due diligence, or both.

Deleted:
. @N_Waters89: "Mr Maté got played by his source because he didn’t do proper due diligence." ( https://twitter.com/N_Waters8... Mr. Waters either got played by his source, didn& #39;t do proper due diligence, or both.Deleted:
. @N_Waters89: "Mr Maté got played by his source because he didn’t do proper due diligence." ( https://twitter.com/N_Waters8... Mr. Waters either got played by his source, didn& #39;t do proper due diligence, or both.Deleted:
. @N_Waters89: "Just to emphasise this: if my entire career was built on a story in which I hadn’t bothered to check possibly the most vital piece of information, namely the reply from the OPCW DG to my source, my response would not be & #39;haha.& #39;

Fair point: my response is HAHAHAHA
. @N_Waters89: "Just to emphasise this: if my entire career was built on a story in which I hadn’t bothered to check possibly the most vital piece of information, namely the reply from the OPCW DG to my source, my response would not be & #39;haha.& #39; Fair point: my response is HAHAHAHA
. @N_Waters89: "Just to emphasise this: if my entire career was built on a story in which I hadn’t bothered to check possibly the most vital piece of information, namely the reply from the OPCW DG to my source, my response would not be & #39;haha.& #39; Fair point: my response is HAHAHAHA
Then there& #39;s @Bellingcat, which also took to Twitter to laughably accuse OPCW inspector Brendan Whelan and @Wikileaks of possibly concealing a supposedly damning letter that, in reality, they never received.

Not deleted yet: https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1320734222521434113">https://twitter.com/bellingca...
Bellingcat: "The only question that remains is whether @wikileaks, @couragefound, @ClarkeMicah, @aaronjmate et al were fooled, or whether they participated in obscuring this truth."

Now that we know the truth, that question only applies to @Bellingcat. https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1320738031515639808?s=20">https://twitter.com/bellingca...
Then there& #39;s @Bellingcat founder @EliotHiggins, who reveled in what he thought was some grand scoop that disproved the OPCW scientists and journalists that he& #39;s attacked, and vindicated the US-UK-France bombing of Syria in April 2018 that he& #39;s shilled for.
In a tweet that he decided to pin to his profile, @EliotHiggins took glee in announcing that I never received a letter that, in reality, was never sent to anyone except for Eliot& #39;s propaganda outlet, for the purposes of spreading pro-war disinformation. https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1320756518510338049?s=20">https://twitter.com/EliotHigg...
"The question is [how] did @wikileaks and @ClarkeMicah also get played by their source like poor old @aaronjmate and @TheGrayzoneNews"

I actually know how poor old @EliotHiggins & Bellingcat got played: they didn& #39;t verify their leak, because they& #39;re dumb.
https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1320757031964418051?s=20">https://twitter.com/EliotHigg...
Recap: @Bellingcat published part of OPCW "letter." They claimed it proved: a Syrian chemical attack; no OPCW cover-up; Russia-Syria admitting guilt; AND me & others possibly concealing it!

@TheGrayzoneNews then exposed that the "letter" was never actually sent, plus ridiculous.
Recap: @Bellingcat published part of OPCW "letter." They claimed it proved: a Syrian chemical attack; no OPCW cover-up; Russia-Syria admitting guilt; AND me & others possibly concealing it! @TheGrayzoneNews then exposed that the "letter" was never actually sent, plus ridiculous.
Recap: @Bellingcat published part of OPCW "letter." They claimed it proved: a Syrian chemical attack; no OPCW cover-up; Russia-Syria admitting guilt; AND me & others possibly concealing it! @TheGrayzoneNews then exposed that the "letter" was never actually sent, plus ridiculous.
Recap: @Bellingcat published part of OPCW "letter." They claimed it proved: a Syrian chemical attack; no OPCW cover-up; Russia-Syria admitting guilt; AND me & others possibly concealing it! @TheGrayzoneNews then exposed that the "letter" was never actually sent, plus ridiculous.
Recap: @Bellingcat published part of OPCW "letter." They claimed it proved: a Syrian chemical attack; no OPCW cover-up; Russia-Syria admitting guilt; AND me & others possibly concealing it! @TheGrayzoneNews then exposed that the "letter" was never actually sent, plus ridiculous.
Now let& #39;s continue our look at those who spread @Bellingcat & their source& #39;s disinformation, and in the process accused others of being what they in fact were themselves: useful idiots.
First up, more gems from @EliotHiggins. After he published his fake letter, Eliot accused @TheGrayzoneNews of being "shameless" given that " @bellingcat showed the leaker withheld key documents that showed his claims were a load of bunk." https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Gesicht mit Freudentränen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Freudentränen"> https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Gesicht mit Freudentränen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Freudentränen"> https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Gesicht mit Freudentränen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Freudentränen">( https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1320785131637035009?s=20)">https://twitter.com/EliotHigg...
First up, more gems from @EliotHiggins. After he published his fake letter, Eliot accused @TheGrayzoneNews of being "shameless" given that " @bellingcat showed the leaker withheld key documents that showed his claims were a load of bunk." https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable= https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Gesicht mit Freudentränen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Freudentränen"> https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Gesicht mit Freudentränen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Freudentränen">( https://twitter.com/EliotHigg..." title="First up, more gems from @EliotHiggins. After he published his fake letter, Eliot accused @TheGrayzoneNews of being "shameless" given that " @bellingcat showed the leaker withheld key documents that showed his claims were a load of bunk." https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Gesicht mit Freudentränen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Freudentränen"> https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Gesicht mit Freudentränen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Freudentränen"> https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Gesicht mit Freudentränen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Freudentränen">( https://twitter.com/EliotHigg..." class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
. @EliotHiggins also continued to spread his conspiracy theory that somehow a source had concealed from me evidence that, in reality, didn& #39;t actually exist.

Higgins: "so it looks like he got played, as did those who believed his reporting, oops." Oops!
( https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1320758002169905152?s=20)">https://twitter.com/EliotHigg...
In one of the funniest bits from this episode, @Bellingcat claimed that Russia and Syria -- despite vigorously objecting to the Douma allegations in public -- had secretly admitted guilt, which was somehow kept secret until @Bellingcat got the scoop! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧐" title="Gesicht mit Monokel" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Monokel"> ( https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1320733437628731397?s=20)">https://twitter.com/bellingca...
In one of the funniest bits from this episode, @Bellingcat claimed that Russia and Syria -- despite vigorously objecting to the Douma allegations in public -- had secretly admitted guilt, which was somehow kept secret until @Bellingcat got the scoop! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable= ( https://twitter.com/bellingca..." title="In one of the funniest bits from this episode, @Bellingcat claimed that Russia and Syria -- despite vigorously objecting to the Douma allegations in public -- had secretly admitted guilt, which was somehow kept secret until @Bellingcat got the scoop! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧐" title="Gesicht mit Monokel" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Monokel"> ( https://twitter.com/bellingca...">
In one of the funniest bits from this episode, @Bellingcat claimed that Russia and Syria -- despite vigorously objecting to the Douma allegations in public -- had secretly admitted guilt, which was somehow kept secret until @Bellingcat got the scoop! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable= ( https://twitter.com/bellingca..." title="In one of the funniest bits from this episode, @Bellingcat claimed that Russia and Syria -- despite vigorously objecting to the Douma allegations in public -- had secretly admitted guilt, which was somehow kept secret until @Bellingcat got the scoop! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧐" title="Gesicht mit Monokel" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Monokel"> ( https://twitter.com/bellingca...">
"Goodness, this is embarrassing" war lobbyist @Charles_Lister exclaimed. "Turns out the whistleblower was ill-informed; the @OPCW investigation was entirely proper & definitive; and #Syria & #Russia even privately agreed with it." Goodness, this is embarrassing.
Here& #39;s @Charles_Lister& #39;s tweet, still not deleted:
( https://twitter.com/Charles_Lister/status/1320755844267606016?s=20)">https://twitter.com/Charles_L...
"Another shocker from the & #39;things that are obvious unless you’re a moron or acting in bad faith” school: the ‘OPCW leaks‘ were total nonsense. Make sure to remember the ‘journalists’ that hyped it next time they come with their next line of bullshit," @DGisSERIOUS declared. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Gesicht mit Freudentränen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Freudentränen">
Still not deleted: https://twitter.com/DGisSERIOUS/status/1320736084205195265?s=20">https://twitter.com/DGisSERIO...
In response to @EliotHiggins gloating that I "DID NOT receive a crucial email" that was never actually sent, probably because what Bellingcat published under false pretenses actually hurt OPCW& #39;s case, @DGisSERIOUS opined that I was "Judith Miller-esque!". Anyone catch the irony?
( https://twitter.com/DGisSERIOUS/status/1320760407783559169?s=20)">https://twitter.com/DGisSERIO...
Thanks to those who sent me these gems. Send any more if they still haven& #39;t been deleted!
We got another one!

Here are @DGisSERIOUS & @jscros enjoying a hearty chuckle over a since-deleted Bellingcat tweet.

lol ( https://twitter.com/jscros/status/1320738744719298561?s=20)">https://twitter.com/jscros/st...
We got another one! Here are @DGisSERIOUS & @jscros enjoying a hearty chuckle over a since-deleted Bellingcat tweet. lol ( https://twitter.com/jscros/st...
We got another one! Here are @DGisSERIOUS & @jscros enjoying a hearty chuckle over a since-deleted Bellingcat tweet. lol ( https://twitter.com/jscros/st...
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