He definitely has a grudge against bellingcat. He had a big spat over the identities of the Skripal poisoners, but ended up looking like he was just making it up.
The nicest way I can think of Murray politically is as one of these people who is not supportive of the west's enemies but sufficiently anti-western to end up aligning with them. Calling Bellingcat warmongerers is an example of this.
He doesn't seem to be wrong, though. Bellingcat has all the indicators of one of those typical intelligence information/disinformation outlets close to one or more intelligence agencies.
I personally find it rather entertaining that Bellingcat has won the Machiavelli Award for public communication. I didn't know it existed and find it hard to believe that someone would accept an award in that name.
Bellingcat are probably being fed clues by the western intelligence services but that just makes them one source amongst many - even if they knew they answer prior to using OSINT that doesn't make them wrong. Murray is contrarian as long as he breathes, of course he would say that.
Craig Murray was (this on his word keep in mind) apparently approached with DNC emails in a clandestine manner just as he was publicly pooh-poohing the Russia connection - if hes not making it up someone tried the same thing but from the other side.
Bellingcat sure does seem like a front for the UK intelligence services. A way for intelligence to release information to the media without having to be named as a source.
UK/US are known to have fabricated pretexts for war in Iraq.
If you put the two together then you get Murray's position. Bellingcat are the intelligence services. The intelligence services are warmongers. And so the Russia publications are warmongering.
I don't personally accept it as logical, I think Russia was probably responsible for the attacks, but maybe the world does need people who put reputation above fact.
People on this forum are usually interested in programming and skew to the hyper-logical end of the spectrum, myself included. For us, facts are paramount, as you cannot think logically without a solid factual basis.
Not every person puts logic at the forefront of their thinking, in fact most people don't. In this case, Murray seems to consider the reputation of UK/US as warmongers, as evidence that that is what they are attempting do with Russia.
It is useful to have people who think in heterogenous ways. At the very least, Murray reminds us to give low weight to information obtained from state intelligence when that information is about an adversary of that state. You don't have to agree with his conclusion to find his thinking useful.
The nicest way I can think of Murray politically is as one of these people who is not supportive of the west's enemies but sufficiently anti-western to end up aligning with them. Calling Bellingcat warmongerers is an example of this.