Welcome to Pushback. I'm Aaron Mette.

Joining me is Dr. Pierce Robinson. He is co-director of the Organization for Propaganda Studies

and convener of the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda, and Media.

Also working with the Berlin Group 21, which is led by the veteran diplomats Hans von Sponek and Jose Bustani, to seek accountability for the OPCW's Syria cover-up scandal.

Pierce Robertson, welcome back to pushback.

Good to be with you, Arlen.

So both you and I have some lengthy reports up right now about the OBCW cover-up scandal,

advancing the story somewhat, going into detail about just how this investigation of an alleged

chemical attack in Duma, Syria was compromised.

And so we thought it would be good to give an update on our reporting, especially in the

wake of this recent conference of state parties at the OPCW, where the OPCW director general

Fernando Arias, who really now is the face of the cover-up, he's been covering up for the cover-up.

He was just reappointed to a second term. So your new lengthy

study up at Syriapropaganda Media.org is called the OPCW at Duma Investigation,

manipulation of key toxicology and related information regarding alleged victims between the

original interim report and the final report. And this gets to a topic that I recently reported

on at the gray zone in a multi-part series that I'm doing on the corruption of the doom investigation

about how senior OPCW officials essentially censored one of the probe's most damning findings,

which is that a group of German toxicologists, expert toxicologists, they looked at footage

and photos of the victims in Duma, and they ruled out chlorine gas as the cause of death. And this finding was in the original report,

but it was centered. It was taken out and it was left out of the final report, a final report

that claimed that there are reasonable grounds to believe that a chlorine gas attack, in fact,

...