I can’t believe US Senators are this stupid, it’s not difficult to check on the origins of photographs on the internet

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Senator Deceived by Ukrainian Delegation With Deceptive Photos

Senator «Duped» Into Using Old Photos to Promote New War With Russia

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This afternoon, the Washington Free Beacon published EXCLUSIVE photos, obtained by Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), that purportedly showed new Russian aggression in Ukraine and vindicated Inhofe’s case for U.S. intervention. Apparently, neither Inhofe’s staff nor the Beacon bothered with a Google reverse image search.

Coming from the Beacon, a conservative cool-kids’ blog that tends to pass off as reporting the document dumps it’s fed by friends on GOP congressmen’s staffs, it was a typical Beltway «whoa if true» scoop:

It was immediately embraced as a BIG DEAL by the Beltway’s most hawkish conservative publicists-cum-reporters:

And it certainly seemed big. The photographs, the Beacon said, «could help bolster the case on Capitol Hill for a new piece of legislation that would enable the United States to provide…

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