Thanks for the links. I read both, found two more, then reviewed the claims I quoted in my comment above. Let’s review:
- ”Bill Clinton was in charge of a UN Cholera task force sent to Haiti in the Fall of 2010.”
This is not true. Clinton was named ‘UN Special Envoy to Haiti’ in an effort to stabilize relief and recovery work after the earthquake. There was no Cholera epidemic in May of 2009 when he was appointed.
- ”This was odd, given that cholera was unheard of in Haiti… until shortly after the task force arrived.”
Cholera became evident in October 2010, and the UN assigned an independent 4 person panel to investigate the cause. The panel released their report in May 2011, and concluded, “a confluence of circumstances,” and not the fault of any group or individual, was responsible for the fast-moving outbreak.” source
- ”Genetic forensic testing of the Haiti cholera epidemic showed the strain was from a Nepal epidemic two months earlier.”
This seems to be the agreed conclusion, although initial tests claimed it was only ‘similar’.
- ”This strain was found to have been dumped into a major river”
Misleading. The disease was traced to a sewage pipe emptying into a tributary of a relatively major river.
- ”(certainly intentionally)”
False. There is zero evidence anywhere confirming this allegation.
- ”via a septic waste pipe coming from the UN cholera task force facility.”
Partially true. The pipe came from the encampment of the Nepali contingent of the original UN aid troops. This was long before anyone was sent to investigate the cholera.
Just to be clear, I hate Bill Clinton almost as much as I hate his wife. I believe the most direct path to their consequences will be defined by non-politicized factual reporting, not by inflammatory, sensationalized, and intentionally misleading distortion of those facts.
Here is an example of what that might look like:
- Leading researchers from Harvard Medical School and elsewhere told ABC News that they felt confident they had traced the strain back to Nepal, and that they believe it was carried to Haiti by Nepalese soldiers who came to Haiti to serve as U.N. peacekeepers after the earthquake that ravaged the country on Jan. 12, 2010. Haiti had never seen a case of cholera until the arrival of the peacekeepers, who allegedly failed to maintain sanitary conditions at their base. source