In general terms

[Thomas Eckhardt]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 05:55:56 GMT
  "peterthooper at juno.com" <peterthooper at juno.com> wrote:
> Just to review, this was about an incident...
> In Syria,
> Where someone gassed some people,

We don't know whether this was the case. We don't know how the persons we 
can see on the photographs died. There has been no exhumation. Please see:
http://syriapropagandamedia.org/working-papers/briefing-note-on-the-final-report-of-the-opcw-fact-finding-mission-on-the-alleged-chemical-attack-in-douma-in-april-2018#failure-to-proceed-with-exhumations
This was written before the suppressed technical report was forwarded to the 
WSPM by an OPCW whistleblower.

> A-and if it was somebody that was gonna be a reason to 
>bomb someone?

The missile attack was against international law, no matter what happened or 
who did it. As Russia had threatened to retaliate against the launch sites 
if Russian servicemen were harmed, we were also very close to WW III.

> Excising dissenting opinions from a report when the 
>charter for the reporting agency grants the right to put 
>them in doesn’t look good. 

> Although there’s probably some Pointsman type who has 
>final edit.

"Based on the whistleblower’s extensive presentation, including internal
emails, text exchanges and suppressed draft reports, we are unanimous in
expressing our alarm over unacceptable practices in the investigation
of the alleged chemical attack in Douma, near the Syrian capital of
Damascus on 7 April 2018.  We became convinced by the testimony that key
information about chemical analyses, toxicology consultations,
ballistics studies, and witness testimonies was suppressed, ostensibly
to favor a preordained conclusion."


https://couragefound.org/2019/10/opcw-panel-statement