Robert Parry: The Mystery of a Ukrainian Army ‘Defector’.
Parry suggests we abandon the kind of "group think" that brought us the Iraq War and conduct a "serious and impartial investigation" instead. A very sane suggestion. The article is well worth reading.
http://consortiumnews.com/2014/07/22/the-mystery-of-a-ukrainian-army-defector/
Exclusive: U.S. intelligence officials suggest that the person who fired the missile that downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 may have been “a defector” from the Ukrainian army, an apparent attempt to explain why some CIA analysts thought satellite images revealed men in Ukrainian army uniforms manning the missile battery, writes Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
The Mystery of a Ukrainian Army ‘Defector’
July 22, 2014
As the U.S. government seeks to build its case blaming eastern Ukrainian rebels and Russia for the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, the evidence seems to be getting twisted to fit the preordained conclusion, including a curious explanation for why the troops suspected of firing the fateful missile may have been wearing Ukrainian army uniforms.
On Tuesday, mainstream journalists, including for the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post, were given a briefing about the U.S. intelligence information that supposedly points the finger of blame at the rebels and Russia. While much of this circumstantial case was derived from postings on “social media,” the briefings also addressed the key issue of who fired the Buk anti-aircraft missile that is believed to have downed the airliner killing all 298 people onboard.
After last Thursday’s shoot-down, I was told that U.S. intelligence analysts were examining satellite imagery that showed the crew manning the suspected missile battery wearing what looked like Ukrainian army uniforms, but my source said the analysts were still struggling with whether that essentially destroyed the U.S. government’s case blaming the rebels.
The Los Angeles Times article on Tuesday’s briefing seemed to address the same information this way: “U.S. intelligence agencies have so far been unable to determine the nationalities or identities of the crew that launched the missile. U.S. officials said it was possible the SA-11 [anti-aircraft missile] was launched by a defector from the Ukrainian military who was trained to use similar missile systems.”
That statement about a possible “defector” might explain why some analysts thought they saw soldiers in Ukrainian army uniforms tending to the missile battery in eastern Ukraine. But there is another obvious explanation that the U.S. intelligence community seems unwilling to accept: that the missile may have been launched by someone working for the Ukrainian military.
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requisite "the jews did it".
“Are the Russians and the rebels lying?”
No!! That would be the World Zionists = Kerry , McCain , Clinton , Lindsay the Puke , Liar Harry , lame brain Pelosi , Kiev , NATO , AIPAC , ADL , The Israel lobby and 90% of DC .
Anyone have Parry's e-mail?
I'll ask him that and show him the sad scenes in The Netherlands his friends caused:
Laughable to think that Parry, who has witnessed more tragic wars and their aftermath than I'm guessing you could even imagine, has not seen those tragic pictures. You seem to USING them, which imo is pretty reprehensible. I know for a fact that in that country, which still places such value on human life, a post such as yours, filled with disrespectful snark using the victims as a political tool, would be devastating to them. I hope none of the read ever stumble on comments such as this. Having experience losses such as theirs, I know how such comments can hurt the loved ones whose emotions right now are so raw.
Please do all of us a favor and do not use these tragic victims for the purpose of mocking anyone.
RIP to all those who have died and peace to their loved ones! 
It's sad that he has witnessed all of that and has pivoted toward being on the wrong side of history.
Now time to run an antivirus... the design looked a little sketchy.
Yes, quoting sources is always the best reporting. 
Parry should have taken a moment to think "Does this story make sense?". Apparently, he didn't.
Ignore all the claims about who had what missile, and who detected what, or all the other claims that aren't instantly provable. You're left with the separatists blocking access to the site - there is absolutely no dispute that the separatists were blocking investigators at the time. Which means if his source's story was true, the separatists were protecting the Ukrainian government.
That makes no sense whatsoever. Which means he should have doubted the source instead of being a stenographer.
Now we get a new story where he's claiming his original story was true, but now we can read the mind of the operators and tell that they were defectors. And his original story is fine, even though this new story utterly annihilates the premise of the first story - that Ukraine fired the missile.
