OT Wie die CIA-Direktorin den Präsidenten manipuliert

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/16/us/politics/gina-haspel-trump.html

"Last March, top national security officials gathered inside the White House to discuss with Mr. Trump how to respond to the nerve agent attack in Britain on Sergei V. Skripal, the former Russian intelligence agent.

London was pushing for the White House to expel dozens of suspected Russian operatives, but Mr. Trump was skeptical. He had initially written off the poisoning as part of legitimate spy games, distasteful but within the bounds of espionage. Some officials said they thought that Mr. Trump, who has frequently criticized “rats” and other turncoats, had some sympathy for the Russian government’s going after someone viewed as a traitor.
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Ms. Haspel showed pictures the British government had supplied her of young children hospitalized after being sickened by the Novichok nerve agent that poisoned the Skripals. She then showed a photograph of ducks that British officials said were inadvertently killed by the sloppy work of the Russian operatives.

Ms. Haspel was not the first to use emotional images to appeal to the president, but pairing it with her hard-nosed realism proved effective: Mr. Trump fixated on the pictures of the sickened children and the dead ducks. At the end of the briefing, he embraced the strong option."

Leider versäumt es die NYT, ihren Lesern mitzuteilen, daß die Bilder fakes waren. Es gab weder vergiftete Kinder noch Enten. Aber Trump sollte dazu gebracht werden, 60 russische Diplomaten auszuweisen.
Dazu brauchte es die Bilder und die Behauptung, diese Zahl (60) würde auch von den europäischen Verbündeten erreicht.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/04/cia-director-used-fake-skripal-incident-photos-to-manipulate-trump.html#more

Bei der CIA ist die US-Außenpolitik sicher in den allerbesten Händen.