BearGoggles said:Cal88 said:
Seymour Hersh: How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline
The New York Times called it a "mystery," but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secretuntil now
Seymour Hersh
8 hr ago
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream
Excerpts:https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-streamQuote:
Last June, the Navy divers, operating under the cover of a widely publicized mid-summer NATO exercise known as BALTOPS 22, planted the remotely triggered explosives that, three months later, destroyed three of the four Nord Stream pipelines, according to a source with direct knowledge of the operational planning.
...Throughout "all of this scheming," the source said, "some working guys in the CIA and the State Department were saying, 'Don't do this. It's stupid and will be a political nightmare if it comes out.'"
Nevertheless, in early 2022, the CIA working group reported back to Sullivan's interagency group: "We have a way to blow up the pipelines."
What came next was stunning. On February 7, less than three weeks before the seemingly inevitable Russian invasion of Ukraine, Biden met in his White House office with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who, after some wobbling, was now firmly on the American team. At the press briefing that followed, Biden defiantly said, "If Russia invades . . . there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it."
Twenty days earlier, Undersecretary Nuland had delivered essentially the same message at a State Department briefing, with little press coverage. "I want to be very clear to you today," she said in response to a question. "If Russia invades Ukraine, one way or another Nord Stream 2 will not move forward."
Several of those involved in planning the pipeline mission were dismayed by what they viewed as indirect references to the attack.
"It was like putting an atomic bomb on the ground in Tokyo and telling the Japanese that we are going to detonate it," the source said. "The plan was for the options to be executed post invasion and not advertised publicly. Biden simply didn't get it or ignored it."
Biden's and Nuland's indiscretion, if that is what it was, might have frustrated some of the planners. But it also created an opportunity. According to the source, some of the senior officials of the CIA determined that blowing up the pipeline "no longer could be considered a covert option because the President just announced that we knew how to do it."
The plan to blow up Nord Stream 1 and 2 was suddenly downgraded from a covert operation requiring that Congress be informed to one that was deemed as a highly classified intelligence operation with U.S. military support. Under the law, the source explained, "There was no longer a legal requirement to report the operation to Congress. All they had to do now is just do itbut it still had to be secret. The Russians have superlative surveillance of the Baltic Sea."
The Agency working group members had no direct contact with the White House, and were eager to find out if the President meant what he'd saidthat is, if the mission was now a go. The source recalled, "Bill Burns comes back and says, 'Do it.'"
...On September 26, 2022, a Norwegian Navy P8 surveillance plane made a seemingly routine flight and dropped a sonar buoy. The signal spread underwater, initially to Nord Stream 2 and then on to Nord Stream 1. A few hours later, the high-powered C4 explosives were triggered and three of the four pipelines were put out of commission. Within a few minutes, pools of methane gas that remained in the shuttered pipelines could be seen spreading on the water's surface and the world learned that something irreversible had taken place.
Were you the only one who didn't understand the US was involved?
Much of the Hersh reporting was known to Fox News viewers months ago.
https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/tucker-carlson-really-happened-nord-stream-pipeline
https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/tucker-carlson-dont-ask-obvious-questions-nord-stream-pipeline-leak
Biden inexplicably lifted Trump's ban/sanctions on NS 2 when entering office - w/o any concession from Russia. Similar to what he did with Iran. Plain stupid.
But I'm told by some here Biden is the best foreign policy president since Kennedy.
I knew it was a NATO job, but the difference here is that Tucker (who is pretty much the only guy I like at Fox) doesn't have the gravitas or reach of Seymour Hersh, the guy who has brought My Lai and Abu Ghraib to the public fore. The fact that Hersh came out and made this report is quite newsworthy in and of itself.
Also the details revealed are quite interesting, like the involvement of the Norwegians as the main NATO Jr partners in this operation, prior to that the suspicions were on UK teams. The level of detail Hersh provides indicates that his source(s) for this story are quite reliable and in the loop.
