Posted on 03/09/2023 9:31:23 AM PST by Kazan
Speaking to Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky on the Breaking Point podcast March 8, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh shredded the New York Times, Washington Post and Die Zeit reports on an alleged “Pro-Ukrainian group” behind the Nord Stream attack.
“The thing I’m accused of is not naming sources”, Hersh said. ”I noticed both the New York Times and the Washington Post … had no sources.”
“What’s going on now in this White House is terrifying to me”, Hersh said. “(Antony) Blinken, (Jake) Sullivan and (Victoria) Nuland … they’re just out of their league here… Do they really want to get NATO into a war? There’s no question we’ve been increasing the amount of American troops in Poland, secretly, and deploying many more arms in that area. I would guess they may push for NATO to make a physical presence… I don’t know what the goal is. I don’t know if they know what the goal is… I don’t know what’s going on in that White House. But it’s very scary and very dumb.”
“The story they put out yesterday is just another example of idiocy,” Hersh said, referring to the new reports meant to debunk his reporting. But “it’s not working. What happened here with the press blackout didn’t happen in the rest of the world. It’s all over the world: Joe Biden made a decision to blow up the pipeline because he was afraid. He learned there was a stalemate coming, at best, in the war in Ukraine. He wanted more support from Europe and Germany.”
Hersh noted that “the crap they put out yesterday isn’t gonna work. Nobody’s gonna believe that. Die Zeit said that some guys in a yacht dropped it? We’re talking about enough C-4 to blow up a major building, for each of the pipelines.”
Hersh contrasted the way the Democats had reacted to his My Lai reporting in the 1970s to now. “Can you imagine Chuck Schumer calling for an investigation of a Democratic President? Not a chance.” And the Republicans are not interested in serious investigations either, Hersh said. “Why doesn’t anyone on the Republican side want to jump on this?” Hersh asked. “We’re in a quagmire. We’re in a mess. And the White House is making it worse.”
Hersh announced he would publish a follow-up next week.
Commenting on the new reports, the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev called them “ignorant US propaganda.”
“They must just be lone rangers fighting against the damned Muscovites. Some Inglourious Basterds saving the world,” Medvedev mocked. “They went and dove into the sea, blew up two huge pipes on the seabed and disappeared into the sunset. Unnoticed. In a sea full of NATO ships and littered with international tracking systems.”
“The answers are quite clear, given the current sentiment among Europeans who are less than thrilled about the prospects of paying for more packages of sanctions, weapons supplies to Ukraine, the energy crisis and a decline in living standards in once wealthy countries,” Medvedev wrote. If the pipelines had been blown up by Ukrainians, “what’s the point of supporting them with fire and sword, as well as with funds?”
Grayzone journalist Aaron Mate also mocked the harebrained new reports, calling them “proxy media” for the US government:
“Despite failing to obtain any concrete information about the perpetrators, the Times nonetheless declares that the US cover story planted in their pages “amounts to the first significant known lead about who was responsible for the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines.” It is unclear why the Times has deemed their evidence-free “lead” to be “significant”, and not, by contrast, the Hersh story that came four weeks earlier. Not only does Hersh’s reporting predate the Times’, but his story contained extensive detail about how the US planned and executed the Nord Stream explosions.
It is unclear why the Times has deemed their evidence-free “lead” to be “significant”, and not, by contrast, the Hersh story that came four weeks earlier. Not only does Hersh’s reporting predate the Times’, but his story contained extensive detail about how the US planned and executed the Nord Stream explosions.
As the standard bearer of establishment US media, the Times’ “reporting” is perfectly in character. Days after the September 2022 bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, the Times noted that “much of the speculation about responsibility has focused on Russia” – just as US officials would certainly hope. The narrative was echoed by former CIA Director John Brennan, who opined that “Russia certainly is the most likely suspect,” in the Nord Stream attack. Citing anonymous “Western intelligence officials”, CNN claimed that “European security officials observed Russian Navy ships in vicinity of Nord Stream pipeline leaks,” thus casting “further suspicion on Russia,” which is seen by “European and US officials as the only actor in the region believed to have both the capability and motivation to deliberately damage the pipelines.”
With the story that Russia blew up its own pipelines no longer tenable, the Times’ new narrative asks us to believe that some unnamed “pro-Ukraine group”, which “did not appear to be working for military or intelligence services” somehow managed to obtain the unique capability to plant multiple explosives on a heavily sealed pipeline at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. That narrative is already being laundered through the German media.
Hours after the Times story broke, the German outlet Die Zeit came out with a story, sourced to German officials, that claims the bombing operation was carried out by a group of six people, including just “two divers.” These supposed perpetrators, we are told, arrived at the crime scene via a yacht “apparently owned by two Ukrainians” that departed Germany. How a yacht managed to carry the equipment and explosives needed for the operation is left unexplained. The saboteurs somehow possessed the capability to carry out a deep-sea bombing, but not the awareness to properly clean up their floating crime scene. According to Die Zeit, the boat was “returned to the owner in an uncleaned condition,” which allowed “investigators” to discover “traces of explosives on the table in the cabin.” Should this lean “pro-Ukraine” crack team of naval commandos conduct another act of deep-sea sabotage, they will only need to hire a cleaning professional to get away with it.”
Valerie Jarrett…..Susan Rice…..
Nations hostile to The United States go through Soros and the Clintons and Obama to these two hags to weaken and destroy The United States.
Reagan made no such promise. Bush did because that’s when the wall fell and German reunification became possible.
Subsequent to any verbal agreements with Gorbachev, the USSR collapsed. Russians like to go on about NATO and what x, y, z politician assured USSR politicians but the fact is that the USSR does not exist.
Those refugees were caused by Russia’s intervention. This is not a vacuum where the USSR and then Russia are blameless, helpless parties.
Sweden and Finland are joining NATO because of what Russia has done. Russia has only itself to blame for them joining NATO. Russia has made an alliance that was increasingly relevant quite relevant again. Quite the feat for Putin.
Add Biden to that mix, a DefSec concerned about white supremacy in our military ranks and a woke Joint Chiefs of Staff and you have a perfect storm of incompetence. Where is any of their success? It is failure after failure. They are the anti-pattern. Do the exact opposite of what they say. Our military and its weapons should be put on a shelf and not used until there is a massive change of leadership and the Pentagon swamp is drained.
“It does not matter, unfortunately. The media is so completely at the service of the regime, and so ideologically devoted to it, that even such egregious happenings will be ignored by them in concerted, dedicated fashion.”
Perfect and succinct.
“...Hersh announced he would publish a follow-up next week...”
Hillary Clinton, please pick up the red courtesy phone...
/s - for his own saftey.
Obviously not from a Ukraine.
bfl
You don’t need a degree to understand how preposterous it is to think an object dropped from the surface of the open ocean is going to somehow sink 300 feet and land precisely on infrastructure, oblivious to the effects of the currents encountered on the way down to the sea bottom.
While not the same argument or example that SH is making, the notion that this method of delivery, irrespective of it’s size or quanity of explosives, is absurd on it’s face.
SH it seems, is using hyperbole to make a point.
Did the WTC bomber have a degree in physics? Possibly... I don’t think the OKC bomber had a degree in physics.
No fan of SH, but his work on this seems very plausible, considering how many evil men and women have infiltrated FED GOV.
Chauncey, Now be careful with that talk. Facts don’t work here. You’ll be accused of being a stooge for Pooty-Poot-Put by one of our FR resident experts on how to foment WWIII. They just can’t wrap their pea brains around the notion of buffer states between Western European NATO states and Russia. I wouldn’t even mention questioning the need for NATO after the fall of the Berlin Wall. That type of idea exploration is treasonous to the Military Industrial Complex.
You summarized it perfectly. Thank you.
Now Russia is allowed free pay back for what the evil treacherous Puppet regime did to them. The world community would not blame them for getting even.
It would be a shame if they decided to take out DC or the New York Times building. Fair is fair.
‘Seymour Hersh: “I Don’t Know What’s Going on in that White House. But it’s Very Scary and Very Dumb”’
That pretty much describes the whole Biden administration
“an object dropped from the surface of the open ocean”
Who said anything about an object dropped from the surface?
“SH it seems, is using hyperbole to make a point.”
I see no hint in his statement that he is using hyperbole.
“Did the WTC bomber have a degree in physics? Possibly... I don’t think the OKC bomber had a degree in physics.”
As far as I know, neither of them made any ludicrous claims about how much explosives it would take to disable an underwater pipeline either.
““Why doesn’t anyone on the Republican side want to jump on this?” Hersh asked.”
Both sides of the Uniparty. One is just more enthusiastic than the other.
It's weird to see supposed Conservatives making these sorts of arguments. Hyper-legalistic, letter-of-the-law only. That used to be the exclusive domain of Leftists, who, after all don't really believe in concepts like "good" and "evil", or cosmic justice delivered by a creator. But instead a sort of liquid "law" which is used in "lawfare" and is "living and breathing".
A country should at least have the dignity of an Outlaw Motorcycle gang. A handshake is a handshake, and a deal is a deal. Even if you change your name.
Throw in Hollywood and San Francisco and you've got a deal.
He is a journalist with lots of contacts.
I will bet his sources are better than your engineering degree!!
“He is a journalist with lots of contacts.”
Let him name them then. Otherwise, I have to assume they don’t exist.
bump
I look forward to your career as a journalist where you name all your military and intelligence sources.
Hint: Nobody will talk to you. Then you get fired and you can complain about all the employed journalists who don’t name their sources.
;-)
“I look forward to your career as a journalist where you name all your military and intelligence sources.”
Lol, what sources? There isn’t a source on the planet that actually knows about demolitions who would say something as silly as what Hersh said. It’s kind of cute that you believe there is though.
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