CBS Censors Own Documentary After Ukraine Outraged: \u201830% Of US Weapons Gone Missing\u2019<\/p>\n
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CBS has censored its own documentary investigative reporting after an avalanche of pushback from supporters of Ukraine and its military. The segment highlighted that tons of weaponry shipped from the United States to the country\u2019s military has gone missing, and sounded the alarm as billions in dollars more have been pledged by the Biden administration.<\/p>\n
\u201cCBS partially retracted a documentary in which it said that shipments of weapons to Ukraine from the US had been going missing,\u201d Insider<\/em><\/a> reports Monday. \u201cCBS tweeted on Monday<\/a>\u00a0that it had removed a a video promoting the documentary that included a months-old quote saying most aid was not making it to Ukraine\u2019s front lines.\u201d Below is the deleted tweet, with the offending line of \u201c30% of it [US-supplied arms and munitions] reaches its final destination.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The segment, titled \u201cArming Ukraine\u201d was published days ago, and follows on the heels of Pentagon and US intelligence officials issuing similar warnings<\/a> that there are few mechanisms in place to legitimately track the arms flowing into the country. One admin official even described in April that<\/a>, \u201cwe have fidelity for a short time, but when it enters the fog of war, we have almost zero.\u00a0It drops into a big black hole, and you have almost no sense of it at all after a short period of time<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n The fresh CBS reporting added to these concerns, quoting the\u00a0the head of a Lithuania-based organization supplying the Ukrainian military,\u00a0Jonas Ohman, who said bluntly:<\/p>\n \u201cAll of this stuff goes across the border, and then something happens, kind of like 30% of it reaches its final destination<\/strong>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Ohman stressed that actually getting the weapons to the designated Ukrainian army units involves having to navigate an array of \u201cpower lords, oligarchs [and] political players.\u201d This also as there have been persistent reports that some weapons end up on the black market, or might possibly be moved outside Ukraine.<\/p>\n A senior crisis adviser with Amnesty International also told CBS in the documentary, \u201cWhat is really worrying is that some countries that are sending weapons do not seem to think that it is their responsibility to put in place a very robust oversight mechanism.\u201d<\/p>\n Officials with the Ukrainian government promptly accused the mainstream US network of playing into \u201cRussian propaganda\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Along with a widespread social media backlash from Kiev\u2019s supporters and pundits, this was apparently enough for CBS to announce it is \u201cupdating\u201d<\/strong> the segment, with some of the offending lines now dropped\u2026<\/p>\n The Ukrainian government further put out a dubious claim that<\/a> \u201call received equipment is accounted for\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 this despite months of Pentagon officials warning that this isn\u2019t the case.<\/p>\n Unsurprisingly, Ukraine\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dmytro Kuleba, has demanded that CBS News conduct an internal investigation to get to the bottom of things.<\/p>\n There\u2019s of late been growing scrutiny placed on the Ukrainian side, after Russia and Putin have long been the main focus of Western mainstream media reporting. It appears that efforts to \u201cpolice\u201d western MSM reports to deflect any possible criticism of Kiev whatsoever during the war is now ramping up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n via PeterSantilli.com <\/p>\n August 8, 2022 at 05:14PM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CBS Censors Own Documentary After Ukraine Outraged: \u201830% Of US Weapons Gone Missing\u2019 https:\/\/ift.tt\/UDcC12H CBS has censored its own documentary investigative reporting after an avalanche of pushback from supporters of Ukraine and its military. The segment highlighted that tons of weaponry shipped from the United States to the country\u2019s military has gone missing, and sounded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,213],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-4645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pete-santilli-post","category-truth-bomb","tag-sbn"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","rpg_gallery_admin_thumb":"","rpg_gallery_thumb":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":""},"author_info":{"info":["Peter Santilli"]},"category_info":"Pete Santilli - Opinion<\/a> Truth Bomb<\/a>","tag_info":"Truth Bomb","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/plD2r-1cV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4646,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4645\/revisions\/4646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n