Nord Stream Bombing Was Not About Ukraine, Was 'Neocon' Effort to Keep Germany Away from Russian Gas: Hersh Source

"What if Russia had responded by saying: You blew up our pipelines and I’m going to blow up your pipelines and your communication cables?" source asked Hersh

(Editor’s Note: This story was updated with a response from the State Department)

President Joe Biden tasked his administration to come up with ways to prevent Russia from invading Ukraine before the war, and the Central Intelligence Agency responded with a strategy to destroy the Nord Stream pipelines that rest on the bottom of the Baltic Sea, according to a new report from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh. (See “A Year of Lying About Nord Stream”)