What started off as a massive fabrication in
2006 just received a great boost from a complicit British government. The
mysterious polonium death of reputed former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko is the
focus.
An inexplicably long series of official UK hearings on this nearly 9 year old
case has just concluded. That's prompted a new flurry of sensational media
reports.
A recent Daily Mail headline reads "Putin 'personally ordered Litvinenko's
murder.'" The Irish Independent said, "Vladimir Putin should be held
responsible for the murder of Alexander Litvinenko." BBC reported, "Vladimir
Putin 'ordered killing', Litvinenko [official UK] inquiry hears."
They support a premise that's been around since the beginning. It implicates
Russian president Vladimir Putin in the yet-to-be explained death.
You might think that reliable evidence has been presented to back up all the
accusations. But careful examination shows the reports are no more than
unsubstantiated allegations. No reliable facts are reported. Meanwhile, there
is an abundance of evidence that this has been a nefarious witch hunt all along.
The official UK hearing has been made out to be a kind of trial, one aimed at
bringing justice in the mysterious death case. The widow Marina Litvinenko told
BBC, "The truth has finally been uncovered."
That's actually quite the opposite of the truth. Here are some facts:
--The prosecutor in the case was unable to unearth any incriminating factual
evidence, only "grave suspicions" about Russian culpability. He never
had a sufficient case to bring to trial.
--The current official inquiry has no capability to mete out justice. It hasn't
been a real trial at all. There are accused individuals. But they have no right
to question their accusers. The inquiry doesn't have the ability to convict
anybody.
--No coroner has ever ruled that Litvinenko's death was even a homicide. That
leaves open the possibility of accidental poisoning or suicide.
--The KGB spy moniker given Litvinenko in the media is fallacious; he never did
espionage work. But it added spice to all the misleading headlines.
--Litvinenko himself is on record believing an Italian named Mario Scaramella
poisoned him.
--The "Putin did it" scenario that went mainstream was a highly
successful fraud of massive proportion. It was instigated by Putin arch enemy
Boris Berezovsky, a Russian robber baron who was hiding out in London from
criminal prosecution back home. Berezovsky was angling to see Putin overthrown
in a violent revolution and replaced by a monarch. No kidding. I'm not just
alleging that. He said so in his own words.
--A rogue coroner dodged his statutory duty to rule on the manner and cause of
death, and instead conducted a Berezovskyesque witch hunt for Russian
culpability.
--He subsequently was told by Home Secretary Theresa May to cut out the witch
hunt and perform his duty to rule on the manner and cause of death. She also told
him that any further official inquiry was unnecessary.
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