Secret Intel Agencies 'Turned on' Nord Stream Bombing After it Was Carried Out: Hersh
Secretary of State told reporters shortly after the Nord Stream attack that it was a “tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy”
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Seymour Hersh, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who published a bombshell expose on how the U.S. was allegedly behind the September 2022 Nord Stream sabotage, said regret set in at the “highest level of secret intelligence agencies” after the bombing, which is why he’s learning so much about the mission.
He said the “operational people, the people who do kinetic things for the United States,” at first, liked the idea of loading the pipelines with explosives, and saw it as a useful weapon that President Biden could use in negotiations in the future.
“But at some point, once the Russians went in, and then when the operation was done, this became increasingly odious to the people who did it,” he said. “These are well-trained people; they are in the highest level of secret intelligence agencies. They turned on the project. They thought this was an insane thing to do. And within a week, or three or four days after the bombing, after they did what they were ordered to, there was a lot of anger and hostility. This is obviously reflected in the fact that I’m learning so much about it.”
He said even Biden was trepidatious about carrying out such an audacious attack that jeopardized U.S.-German relations. But Biden is not around “deep thinkers.”
“I know this sounds strange. I don’t think that [Secretary of State] Antony Blinken and some others in the administration are deep thinkers,” he told The Wire, an Indian nonprofit news and opinion website.
I think that the reason they decided to do it then was that the war wasn’t going well for the West, and they were afraid with winter coming. The Nord Stream 2 has been sanctioned by Germany, and the United States was afraid that Germany would lift the sanctions because of a bad winter. -Hersh
Hersh noted that days after the explosion, Blinken addressed reporters and called the situation a “tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy” and “take away from (Putin) the weaponization of energy as a means of advancing his imperial designs.”
The Biden administration has rejected Hersh’s story as completely false.
Hersh said the sonar that was used to trigger the explosive was made by Raytheon, the company that used to have Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on its board.
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“There certainly are people in the American economy who like the idea of us being more competitive. We’re selling LNG, liquefied gas, at extremely big profits; we’re making a lot of money on it. I’m sure there were some people thinking, boy, this is going to be a long-time boost for the American economy. But in that White House, I think the obsession was always re-election, and they wanted to win the war, they wanted to get a victory, they want Ukraine to somehow magically win,” he said.
He continued, “There could be some people who think maybe it’ll be better for our economy if the German economy is weak, but that’s crazy thinking. I think, basically, that we’ve bitten deep into something that’s not going to work. The war is not going to turn out well for this government. The fear was that Western Europe would not go along any longer in the war. I think that the reason they decided to do it then was that the war wasn’t going well for the West, and they were afraid with winter coming. The Nord Stream 2 has been sanctioned by Germany, and the United States was afraid that Germany would lift the sanctions because of a bad winter.”
He said, “In the CIA, it’s understood that, as I put it in my article, they work for the Crown, they don’t work for the Constitution.”
“The one virtue of the CIA is that a president, who can’t get his agenda through Congress and nobody listens to him, can take a walk in the backyard of the Rose Garden of the White House with the CIA director and somebody can get hurt eight thousand miles away,” he said. “That’s always been the selling point of the CIA, which I have problems with. But even that community is appalled that he chose to keep Europe cold in support of a war that he’s not going to win. And that, to me, is heinous.”
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The two spoke about Hersh’s blockbuster report and how the CIA is essentially the president’s private army.
Hersh spoke with Democracy Now! about his article and the fallout. When asked why the U.S. would carry out such a risky mission, he said, “The fear was Europe would walk away from the war.”
Jan Oberg, director of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, in a recent interview with Xinhua, said, “Seymour Hersh's fine analysis tells how the destruction was planned and done, but the conclusion is unsurprising: the U.S., with very important Norwegian assistance, committed the crime against a friendly, allied country, Germany, and other European countries.”
NAPOLITANO: The American media and the public are indifferent to the attack. Fox News, my former employer and my former colleagues and friends, are actually trying to disprove Hersh’s report. The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post are totally ignoring it. This is an act of war against an ally, Germany, and against a putative - we’ve never fought a war against them - adversary Russia. This is the use of the president’s private army, the CIA, to carry out an attack on an ally. This is not only an act of war…it’s a war crime. This is to harm the Russian economy and keep the Germans in line so they will enforce the sanctions that Joe Biden wants.
When the Judge says that his former Fox News colleagues are trying to disprove Hersch's report he must have forgotten about Tucker Carlson. Carlson remains an outlier to the standard Fox narrative, that's why he has the highest ratings of any prime-time news analysis show.
What is with Norways wealth fund? They are massively invested in German bluechips, among them Linde and BASF, two of the biggest energy consumers in the country. It should be in Norway's interest that Germany has enough cheap and reliable energy. As things are, it looks like that by participating in the Nordstream explosions, Norway effectively blew up its entire pension system.