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This is the guy who was head of MI6 when they had damning evidence that Saddam had WMDs and we know how that turned out.

Now he read a paper and his credentials are used to 'spread the word' again.

Apparently they think it works every time.

In the meantime the virus has been under extraordinary genetic scrutiny and everyone else think that it looks perfectly natural.




Thanks for the heads up. Seems like something TFA should mention:

MI6 stood by bogus intelligence until after Iraq invasion https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/06/mi6-stood-by...

Spy chief did not tell Blair about lies of key source https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/spy-chief-did-not-tell-bl...




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