Correcting “Storm Clouds Gather Over Open Skies Treaty”
Trump admin officials pollute the media ecosystem, others spread their disinformation. Let’s learn from this.
Photo by Tech. Sgt. Heather Salazar — 15th Wing Public Affairs
On October 23, 2019 a fellow from the The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) published an Open Skies Treaty piece titled “Storm Clouds Gather Over Open Skies Treaty”. Two weeks prior, the Open Skies Treaty was in the news when White House NSC plans to quit the treaty, at the end of October, were leaked to the press. The article was published four days before the White House National Security Council officially planned to release in the media their intent to leave the Open Skies Treaty, coinciding with the October 27th 2019 Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi raid, which saturated defence news that day. Seven days after the CSIS article’s publication, Tim Morrison (John Bolton’s former henchman who shepherded the paperwork to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty under Trump’s pen) resigned(?) from his NSC post, a day before his testimony before Congress over the Ukraine quid-pro-quo scandal that you already forgot about, because that was so last year.
October 30th, 2019 — Audrey McNamara for The Daily Beast
“Top Russia Official on National Security Council to Step Down: Report”
