Obama administration officials said Thursday that Russia is firing artillery from its own territory into Ukraine to hit Ukrainian military sites, pointing to escalating Russian involvement in the deadly conflict.
Obama administration officials have said lots of things that aren't true.
"This clearly is a military escalation," Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren said, adding there is no question that Russian military -- as opposed to Russia-backed separatists -- are firing the shots.
Did he provide proof? Did Fox ask if he had any and if they could see it?
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf first made the accusation during a press briefing earlier Thursday. She also claimed Moscow is boosting its military shipments to pro-Russian separatists.
Is this the same Marie Harf who just admitted their evidence comes from "social media" sites? Did Fox question her about that admission?
"We have new evidence that the Russians intend to deliver heavier and more powerful multiple rocket launchers to separatist forces in Ukraine and have evidence that Russia is firing artillery from within Russian to attack Ukrainian military positions," Harf told reporters.
New evidence? Is it like their old "social media" evidence? Did Fox ask her that?
She said the evidence derived from "human intelligence information" but declined to elaborate, saying it would compromise sources and methods of intelligence collection.
Translated: We found new youtube and facebook evidence the Ukrainian government posted and we don't want to admit that we get our intell from facebook and youtube . . . again.
The Pentagon, though, confirmed her account, and said Russia has been firing artillery for several days now.
Did Fox ask how it was confirmed? Did they ask to see the evidence that confirms it?
The allegations come amid an increasingly bitter war of words between Washington and Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine and conflicting claims over the downing of a Malaysian passenger jet over eastern Ukraine last week.
Allegations. Now that's the correct word. Because without evidence that's all they are.
The U.S. repeatedly has accused Russia of stoking the Ukraine rebellion and has said it believes separatists shot down the Malaysian plane, killing nearly 300 people, with a Russian provided surface-to-air missile.
But they haven't proven their accusations to be anything more than allegations and they haven't proven their allegations are anything more than accusations.
Harf said Wednesday the ultimate responsibility for the downing of the plane rests with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian government.
Of course she did because the Obama administration is hoping people have forgotten it was they and their banker buddies in the EU and IMF that backed the "rebels" who violently overthrew an elected government so they could loot Ukraine and put a NATO base and missile batteries there aimed at Russia.
Meanwhile, additional military aircraft carrying remains of victims from the Malaysian plane disaster arrived in the Netherlands on Thursday, while Australian and Dutch diplomats joined to promote a plan for a U.N. team to secure the crash site which has been controlled by pro-Russian rebels.
Wonder if they'll ask the Ukrainians to turn over the air traffic control tapes they confiscated so we can all hear them for ourselves while they're at it?
On Monday, the U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution proposed by Australia demanding that rebels cooperate with an independent investigation and allow all remaining bodies to be recovered.
Not a word about demanding the Ukrainians cooperate with an investigation huh? Figures.
Hate to tell you this Rev but this isn't reporting all this is is the media repeating what the government says without question. That's what's known as "catapulting the propaganda", a term George W. Bush used when his neocon administration was "fixing the evidence" to follow their agenda.
Real reporters ask questions, Fox just repeats what "officials" say and Obama administration "officials" have a reputation for telling lies.
How about showing us some proof instead of more accusations and allegations by people who have already shown a propensity to lie about everything?
