Hersh released a report in the last hours that ensures an attack was carried out in September on the orders of President Joe Biden.
“Biden’s decision to sabotage the pipelines came after more than nine months of highly secret back and forth debate within the Washington Homeland Security community about how best to achieve that goal,” assured the journalist in his blog.
Quickly, from Washington they left to cross the journalist for the accusation. “This is totally false and complete fiction,” said Adrienne Watson, a spokeswoman for the White House National Security Council. Spokesmen for the CIA and the State Department pointed out the same thing.
The pipelines are multibillion-dollar infrastructure projects designed to transport Russian gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea.
Sweden and Denmark, in whose exclusive economic zones the explosions took place, have concluded that the pipelines were blown up deliberately, but have not said who might be responsible.
The United States and NATO have described the incident as an “act of sabotage”. Moscow has blamed the West for the unexplained explosions that caused the ruptures. Neither party has provided evidence.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia He said Wednesday that the United States had questions to answer about its role in the pipeline explosions.
The construction of North Stream 2designed to double the volume of gas that Russia could ship directly to Germany under the sea, it was completed in September 2021 but never commissioned after Berlin shelved the certification just days before Moscow sent its troops to Ukraine last February.
Hersh is a former New York Times and New Yorker reporter who has won numerous awards for his investigative reporting, including on the Vietnam War and the 2004 Abu Ghraib scandal following the US invasion of Iraq.
More recently, he sparked controversy with a report refuting the Barack Obama administration’s version of the 2011 assassination of al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden in a US special forces operation, and another accusing the rebels of Syrians for staging a sarin nerve agent attack in August 2013 in a Damascus suburb that killed hundreds of civilians.
Source: Ambito
