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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsForget Putin, it's meddling by America's evangelical enforcer that should scare us
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/26/forget-putin-its-meddling-by-americas-evangelical-enforcer-that-should-scare-usUS sheriff Mike Pompeo rode into town last week, telling whoppers as is his wont. The secretary of state Donald Trumps top enforcer accused Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organization chief, of cutting a secret pre-pandemic deal with China. Because of this, youve got dead Britons, he claimed. Pompeo offered no proof. It was an outrageous smear. But Tedros is a wanted man in Washington. He verbally gunned him down.
Pompeo justified Januarys real-life assassination of Irans Gen Qassem Suleimani by saying he posed an imminent threat to US interests.
Declaring the killing unlawful, the UN investigator, Agnès Callamard, ruled this month there was not a shred of evidence to support this. Iran hawk Pompeo had reportedly urged the hit for months. It was he who finally convinced Trump to order the killing.
Pompeo was caught out again last year before Trumps impeachment. He initially denied detailed knowledge of the phone call in which Trump tried to persuade Ukraines president to investigate the son of his White House rival, Joe Biden, saying he had not read the transcript. It later emerged Pompeo had listened in on the call. Democrats accused him of obstructing justice.
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Forget Putin, it's meddling by America's evangelical enforcer that should scare us (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jul 2020
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spanone
(135,791 posts)1. Pompeo & Barr should end up in the Hague
True monsters
bdamomma
(63,799 posts)6. they both
committed crimes, they should be.
crickets
(25,952 posts)4. K&R for visibility.
GeorgeGist
(25,311 posts)5. Gosh, I dunno ...
can I not be scared by both?