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Blowing Holes in Seymour Hersh's Pipe Dream
2023-02-15
[OSINT & Analysis by Oliver Alexander] I would like to preface this post by stating that I will not be making any conclusions on who is responsible for the Nord Stream pipeline explosions in this piece. While I have my suspects, all publicly available information regarding the explosions is circumstantial and there is none that conclusively points to a specific culprit. The purpose of this post is to debunk the claims made in Seymour Hersh’s Substack post titled "How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline" using publicly available information.

In regards to Seymour Hersh’s past, both his time as a Pulitzer Price winning journalist in the 1970s and his recent factually incorrect takes on the Syria gas attacks and Skripal poisoning, I will let people like Eliot Higgins who worked on these cases give their opinion. This post will solely focus on the claims made in the recent Substack post.

Posted by:Besoeker

#9  @#2 - Good times, relatively, was the Carter presidency. Oh, how this place is crashing & burning.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2023-02-15 20:42  

#8  @#3 - Maidan Cookie Monster Nuland makes me sick just looking at her.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2023-02-15 20:40  

#7  Weren't there some engineers who thought it was not sabotoogee at all and that the explosion came from the inside of the pipeline?
Posted by: DooDahMan   2023-02-15 20:39  

#6  I originally thought it was poor maintenance. I thought that no rational entity would risk nuclear war over the pipeline. I now believe that I was sort of right.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-02-15 20:10  

#5  Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. --Mark Twain

I prefer to wait before deciding that it was more than bad luck and/or sloppy maintenance.
Posted by: magpie   2023-02-15 19:44  

#4  I am not hearing credible denials. The action seems to hurt Germany more than Russia in the short term. It also looks like a great way to encourage actors to target our infrastructure in a different situation where infiltrating teams over our border would not have been made so difficult.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-02-15 19:34  

#3  Biden and Victoria Nuland statements were convincing enough for me.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-02-15 06:52  

#2  Remember when the left rejected the FBI and CIA and embraced Hersh?

Good times...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-02-15 06:49  

#1  I read some his rubbish in the Korean Air Lines Flight 007 and The Samson Option
Posted by: Eohippus Slomort2460   2023-02-15 04:06  

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