Cenk Uygur
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Senator Inhofe Caught Using Fake Photos Of Russian Invasion To Push For Military Aid
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5:04Now Playing"Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) today blamed a Ukrainian delegation for the photos supposedly depicting Russian atrocities in Ukraine, which he provided to a DC news site and subsequently discovered were outdated.
According to BuzzFeed, Inhofe’s office told them that the photos, eventually published by the Washington Free Beacon, had come from a “delegation” including two first-year members of parliament, some academics, and some military officers. “The list does not include high-level government officials,” BuzzFeed noted.
“We felt confident to release these photos because the images match the reporting of what is going on in the region,” Inhofe said in a statement to BuzzFeed. “I was furious to learn one of the photos provided now appears to be falsified from an AP photo taken in 2008. This doesn’t change the fact that there is plenty of evidence Russia has made advances into the country with T-72 tanks and that pro-Russian separatists have been killing Ukrainians in cold blood.”
Many of the photos published by the Free Beacon were quickly recognized as photos from the Russian incursion into Georgia, which happened in 2008. Other photos, including graphic images of charred and headless bodies, could not be confirmed as a result of Russian involvement in eastern Ukraine. So far, Russia has denied providing support to the separatists in the region."
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