NORD STREAM: Russia Wants 'Open' Probe After Bombshell Report Blaming US for Explosions
The U.S. has denied the report from a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist that the Biden administration was behind the attack.
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If you’ve only been watching mainstream news outlets, you may have missed the bombshell report published yesterday by Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh that went into specific detail on how the U.S. carried out the high-profile sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines.
The State Department denied the 2,000+ word report when reached by The Trends Journal. (Read Hersh’s full article here.)
We’ve been documenting the mystery behind these attacks and how the U.S. blamed Russia, and Russia blamed the U.S. The attack was shrouded in secrecy and hardly touched by the Western media.
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Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin press secretary, told reporters yesterday that the Hersh report shows the need for an open and transparent investigation into the culprits “into this unprecedented attack on this critical infrastructure,” RT, the Russian news outlet, reported. “It’s impossible to leave this without finding the perpetrators and punishing them.”
Peskov said that while Hersh’s report is valuable, it cannot be viewed as source material.
He said “it’s a very important piece, which… must provoke the acceleration of the international probe. But we, on the contrary, witness attempts to silently wind down such international investigation.”
The U.S. has blamed Russia for the attack and Russia called the accusation nonsense.
There have been few answers thus far, but comments from the Biden administration appear to lend weight to the claim that Washington played some role.
It was earlier reported that Liz Truss, the former British prime minister, text messaged Secretary of State Antony Blinken ‘It’s done’ shortly after the attacks on the Nord Stream.
Kim Dotcom, a tech entrepreneur who lives in New Zealand, took to Twitter on 30 October - about a month after the attacks - to claim that the Russians learned that the UK blew up the pipelines through Truss’s iPhone message to Blinken “before anybody else knew.”
“iCloud admin access rocks!” he posted.
Victoria Nuland, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, addressed a Sentate hearing last week and told Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, “Senator Cruz, like you, I am, and I think the administration is, very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you like to say, a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea.”
Nuland, who spearheaded the overthrow of the democratically elected president of Ukraine in 2014 and was famously caught on the phone saying “Fuck the EU,” has spoken out against Nord Stream in the past.
Nuland also once said “one way or the other” the project “will not move forward.”
Lavrov said Nuland effectively made a “confession.”
Russia has accused the West of conducting a sham investigation into the blasts, and accused Sweden of withholding key information. Moscow said it wants the culprit to face justice and pay for the economic damage from the “terrorist” attack.