Sen. Inhofe 'Duped' Into Using Old Photos to Promote New War With Russia
Source: Gawker
This afternoon, the Washington Free Beacon published EXCLUSIVE photos, obtained by Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), that purportedly showed new Russian aggression in Ukraine and vindicated Inhofe's case for U.S. intervention. Apparently, neither Inhofe's staff nor the Beacon bothered with a Google reverse image search.
Coming from the Beacon, a conservative cool-kids' blog that tends to pass off as reporting the document dumps it's fed by friends on GOP congressmen's staffs, it was a typical Beltway "whoa if true" scoop.
... It's not clear what Inhofe's independent verification process involved, but it didn't work. Several national security experts on Twitter immediately set about determining the provenance of the images and found that some of them were from as far back as 2008, and a few were traceable to the conflict in Georgia and Ossetia, rather than the current war in Ukraine.
Read more: http://fortressamerica.gawker.com/senator-duped-into-using-old-photos-to-promote-new-wa-1685511541
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