{"id":5694,"date":"2015-02-14T08:07:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T13:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5694"},"modified":"2015-02-14T08:07:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T13:07:42","slug":"in-his-thirst-for-war-senator-jim-inhofe-releases-fake-photos-of-russian-troops-in-the-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5694","title":{"rendered":"In His Thirst for War, Senator Jim Inhofe Releases Fake Photos of Russian Troops in the Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

In His Thirst for War, Senator Jim Inhofe Releases Fake Photos of Russian Troops in the Ukraine<\/a><\/h3>\n

Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee first viewed the graphic pictures in December. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R., Okla.) then obtained the photos and worked to independently verify and confirm the authenticity of the photos, before providing them exclusively to the\u00a0Free Beacon.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Inhofe said he hopes the images act as a wake up call to the Obama administration and American people, who largely have been spared from seeing the graphic violence inflicted upon Ukraine by the Russian-backed separatists\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Following publication of this story,\u00a0serious\u00a0questions\u00a0have\u00a0been raised\u00a0about the authenticity of some of the photographs provided by Sen. Jim Inhofe (R., Okla.). Several images of the Russian convoys\u00a0appear to\u00a0have\u00a0been taken\u00a0in 2008, during Russia\u2019s conflict with Georgia. Given the similarities between the earlier images and those provided by the senator\u2019s office, the\u00a0Washington Free Beacon\u00a0is investigating further and will update as necessary.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sen. Inhofe said\u00a0in a statement: \u201cThe Ukrainian parliament members who gave us these photos in print form as if it came directly from a camera really did themselves a disservice. We felt confident to release these photos because the images match the reporting of what is going on in the region. I was furious to learn one of the photos provided now appears to be falsified from an AP photo taken in 2008.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 From the Washington Free Beacon\u2019s article:\u00a0Updated: Provenance of Photos Showing Atrocities Questioned<\/a><\/p>\n

This is absolutely incredible. Incredible.<\/p>\n

First of all, I don\u2019t claim to have any idea about what is happening in Ukraine. Many people out there feel obligated to pick a side, but I can promise you that 99% of them don\u2019t actually have a clue. I don\u2019t think there are many \u201cgoods guys\u201d on either side of this fight, and my assumption is that both sides are lying as much as possible. It\u2019s a very sad situation, but very few people\u00a0really knows what\u2019s going on. That\u2019s why I don\u2019t comment on it much.<\/p>\n

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In His Thirst for War, Senator Jim Inhofe Releases Fake Photos of Russian Troops in the Ukraine Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee first viewed the graphic pictures in December. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R., Okla.) then obtained the photos and worked to independently verify and confirm the authenticity of the photos, before providing them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3532,1426,553,655,694,3533,821,1237],"class_list":["post-5694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-jim-inhofe","tag-misinformation","tag-nato","tag-propaganda","tag-russia","tag-senate-armed-services-committee","tag-ukraine","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5695,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694\/revisions\/5695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}