[…] Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, a longtime reporter for the Associated Press and the New York Times, offered a much more plausible culprit: the U.S. But the very idea that the Biden administration may have orchestrated the plan was met with quick denials — and indignation — by both senior officials and their communications arm, the legacy media.
But this week, Hersh once again alleged that the U.S. was behind the attacks. In an extremely detailed and quite credible post on his Substack site , he laid out what he had learned from a source who had “direct knowledge of the operational planning.”
He claimed that highly-trained U.S. Navy divers placed remotely-controlled explosives on the pipelines under the cover of the “widely-publicized” joint NATO maritime exercises in June 2022, called “BALTOPS 22.”
Hersh explained that in December 2021, a series of top-secret meetings began. Participants included top-ranking officials from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CIA, and the State and Treasury Departments. “What became clear to participants,” his source had informed him, “is that [national security adviser Jake] Sullivan intended for the group to come up with a plan for the destruction of the two Nord Stream pipelines — and that he was delivering on the desires of the President.” […]
At a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz the following month, Biden told reporters, “If Russia invades — that means tanks or troops crossing the border of Ukraine, again, then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.” A reporter asked, “But how will you do that exactly, since the project and control of the project is within Germany’s control?”
Biden replied, “We will, I promise you, we’ll be able to do it.”
Asked for a comment on the story, White House spokeswoman Adrienne Watson wrote in an email to Hersh, “This is false and complete fiction.” Likewise, CIA spokesman Tammy Thorp wrote, “This claim is completely and utterly false.” Despite these unequivocal denials, it’s clear the U.S. government had the motivation, the opportunity, and the means to carry out this operation. Perhaps Hersh’s theory should not be so easily dismissed. Läs artikel