CBS has censored its own documentary investigative reporting after an avalanche of pushback from supporters of Ukraine and its military. The segment highlighted that tons of weaponry shipped from the United States to the country's military has gone missing, and sounded the alarm as billions in dollars more have been pledged by the Biden administration.
"CBS partially retracted a documentary in which it said that shipments of weapons to Ukraine from the US had been going missing," Insider reports Monday. "CBS tweeted on Monday that it had removed a a video promoting the documentary that included a months-old quote saying most aid was not making it to Ukraine's front lines." Below is the deleted tweet, with the offending line of "30% of it [US-supplied arms and munitions] reaches its final destination."
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cbs-censors-own-documentary-after-ukraine-outraged-30-us-weapons-gone-missing
Question: Are you concerned about weapons getting into the wrong hands?
Andy Milburn: I don't care at all whether that happens. Of course, it's going to happen, it happens in any ... I mean, if you don't have guys here supervising the pipeline ... but that's not my biggest concern, my biggest concern right now is the guys who need to kill Russians with those weapons, get those weapons.
Question: We're seeing this incredible, historic flow of weapons coming into the Ukraine from the west, from the US and NATO countries. Do we have any sense as to where they're going?
Donatella Rovera: We don't know ... there is really no information as to where they're going, at all. What is more worrying is that at least some of the countries that are sending weapons do not seem to think that it is their responsibility to put into place a very robust mechanism to ensure how they know how they are being used today, but also how they might and will be used tomorrow.
Question: Is it appropriate for us to be asking these questions in a state of emergency? You have a country that is being invaded by a larger neighboring force: Whatever it takes to survive seems to be the name of the game.
Donatella Rovera: It is not that is just appropriate to ask those questions, it is absolutely necessary to ask those questions. Because, if we look back: we have so many different examples: Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq ... situations where weapons that are meant for one purpose at the particular time, end up going elsewhere, used for other purposes. When ISIS took over Mosul in 2014, they came into possession of large amounts of new, sophisticated weapons that the US forces had left for the Iraqi forces.
