This reticence of U. But once U. The pertinent question is why, although that apparently is of no interest to the Times which aimed its editorial against Russia for seeking a more inclusive investigation, which the Times does find suspicious.
So, the Times castigates the Russians for seeking to involve the United Nations Security Council and the International Civil Aviation Organization in the slow-moving Dutch-led inquiry, which includes the Ukrainian government, one of the possible suspects in the crime as one of the investigators.
But the Times takes no notice of the curious silence of U. If the Times really wanted to get at the truth about the MH case, its editorial could have cited a public memo to President Barack Obama from an organization of former U. It is our opinion that a proper investigation of the downing would involve exploring every possibility to determine how the evidence holds up.
We are hearing indirectly from some of our former colleagues that the draft Dutch report contradicts some of the real intelligence that has been collected. President, we believe you need to seek out honest intelligence analysts now and hear them out, particularly if they are challenging or even opposing the prevailing group-think narrative. They might well convince you to take steps to deal more forthrightly with the shoot-down of MH and minimize the risk that relations with Russia might degenerate into a replay of the Cold War with the threat of escalation into thermonuclear conflict.
In all candor, we suspect that at least some of your advisers fail to appreciate the enormity of that danger. Along the same lines, I was told by one source who was briefed by some current analysts that the reason for the year-long U.
