Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) on Wednesday wrote on Twitter that he “can’t immediately rule out” the idea that the US blew up the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines that connect Russia and Germany.
Lee’s comments came after veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published an explosive report that detailed how the US sabotaged the pipelines with the cooperation of Norway, allegations the White House denies.
“I’m troubled that I can’t immediately rule out the suggestion that the US blew up Nord Stream. I checked with a bunch of Senate colleagues. Among those I’ve asked, none were ever briefed on this. If it turns out to be true, we’ve got a huge problem,” Lee wrote on Twitter.
According to Hersh’s report, which cites a source “with direct knowledge of the operational planning,” Congress didn’t need to be notified of the plan to blow up the pipelines because it was downgraded from being a covert operation.
The reason it was downgraded was that President Biden publicly threatened Nord Stream 2 after the CIA came up with a plan of attack. “If Russia invades … there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it,” Biden said on February 7, 2022.
Hersh’s source said that after Biden’s threat, senior CIA officials determined that the plan was no longer a covert operation because “the President just announced that we knew how to do it.”
According to the report, the operation was then downgraded from a covert operation to a “highly classified intelligence operation with US military support.” The source said that because of the change, there was “no longer a legal requirement to report the operation to Congress.”
The report said that US Navy divers planted C4 explosives on the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines in June during NATO drills in the region. The explosives were later detonated on September 26, 2022, by a sonar buoy dropped by a Norwegian spy plane.
Will Germany sue for damages? The only reason the US wouldn’t do this is they would be afraid of getting caught, and the damage that would do.
This leak will pick up momentum as time goes on. Like starting a chess move, you always start with the pawns first.
Pentagon biolabs story isn’t going away either. Fun times ahead.
This could do more damage to NATO than anything the Russians might do.
I am just waiting to hear again about how “Europe should pay for its own defense”….
“Dear Germany: here is a bill for blowing up your pipeline and destroying your economy—“
An honest person in the U.S. Senate, who would have ever guessed that?
Not very difficult for the House to find out who is correct on this. Get those who Hersh named by position, i. e. the divers up in the House and ask them. Or the named conspirators like Blinken, the Hirsh report is so elaborate and detailed that there are scores of those who could be brought up to question. Easy to put this puppy to sleep.So many blunders like blowing up the wrong pipe, and Biden and Nuland bragging we could and would do it. How stupid do they think people are…??????
Hersch’s rendering is the only one that makes sense. Who had the need and the technology to do this? US, UK, Russia and possibly China but Russia and China had no need. Hence it was US or UK or both together. No other scenario makes any sense.
Methinks the new Congress has a conspiracy to unravel. Senator?
Wow, someone has some balls. Bravo.
Long before Ukraine war, on behalf of oil and gas companies in the US, US wanted to stop nordstream 1&2. US wants to sell American oil and gas to Europe, this is not a secret. So US blew up the competition. Let’s see what Russia’s response will be.
Why should they respond at all? From their perspective, this is an issue between Washington/London and their slaves in Europe. It’s no concern to Russians or Kremlin. They have plenty of customers and they can use the energy to fuel their own industry. The imperial parasites did them a favor. One of major growing rifts between Russians and the Kremlin was supply of Russian resources to enemy states.
I have to admit there’s a certain logic here- Biden said he was going to blow up the pipeline if Russia invaded, which they then did, so why did he need to inform congress before he actually did it? If they had a problem with his plan they could and should have spoken up when he announced it. You can’t assume someone is lying just because they’re a politician. Actually yes, you usually can, but in this case Biden was telling the truth, and I don’t think he needs to apologize for it. He probably won’t do it again.
terrorism by the same ones that bought you “the war on terror”
We all new who did it from day one .
So the war on Terrorism has met its enemy and he is US?
“Sen. Mike Lee ‘Can’t Rule Out’ That the US Blew Up Nord Stream The senator was commenting on Seymour Hersh’s report and said his colleagues were never briefed on the attack”
Blew up the Russo-German Nord Stream pipeline, Sanctioned Russia to try and end the government, pushed “mercenaries” who are really US troops into Ukraine, supplied weapons which kill Russians, tacitly supported the use of chemical weapons in Ukraine, and condoned the murder of Russian POWs in Ukraine.
All acts of war in a sane world but just business as usual for America in this bizarro world.
At the very least obama, Voldomort Zelensky Joey Biden, Anthony Blinken, Lloyd J Austin the low IQ, and Victoria Nuland need to be hauled before the International Criminal Court and tried for War Crimes.
Jail time for Joey Biden, but severe punishment for obama, Voldomort Zelensky, Anthony Blinken, Lloyd J Austin (his fat body would break any rope) and Victoria Nuland. These people are no better than fascists and Nazis from the 1930s and 1940s.
Given that the Congress gave up its power to declare war and to regulate spending on presidential wartime safaris, the dispute over who said what is laughable.
Neither party is represented by people who believe the American people don’t care what their government does to human beings in other places as long as energy, food, and housing are affordable. We’re largely a nation of nitwits, whose awareness of history and historical forces is severely truncated when it comes to being part of the human/global community, so none of this BS matters.
The truth is that our executive branch is being run by a bunch of power hungry idiots who have barely evolved past the stage of using clubs to beat in the brains of anyone else who approaches their water hole.
“Sen. Mike Lee ‘Can’t Rule Out’ That the US Blew Up Nord Stream The senator was commenting on Seymour Hersh’s report and said his colleagues were never briefed on the attack”
No leadership from the top of the executive branch and incestuous politics running American war policy.
It is truly eyeopening to google search each of the NEOCON and make note of their interconnections: Victoria Nuland, Anthony Blinken, Robert Kagan, Fredrick Kagan, Kimberly Kagan, William Kristol, Alexander Vindman and Yevgeny Vindman.
Victoria Nuland who’s family is from Ukraine running the anti-Russia campaign. She is chief architect of the 2014 overthrow of the elected government of Ukraine and ongoing military operations in Ukraine. She is accused of being one of the criminals who planed and ran operations to blowup Nord Stream 2.
Anthony Blinken who’s family were part of Hungary now owned by Ukraine running the anti-Russian war. He is a prime mover in ongoing military operations in Ukraine. He is
accused of being one of the criminals who planed and ran operations to
blowup Nord Stream 2.
Alexander Vindman who was born in the Ukraine was the whistleblower attacking President Trump also a National Security Advisor and now active in Ukrainian issues as a “NGO” leader.
Yevgeny Vindman who was born in the Ukraine was a National Security Advisor and now active in Ukrainian issues as a Col in the US Army.
Robert Kagan who’s family is from Lithuania is the leader of a political group running the anti-Russia NEOCON political war party. He is also the husband of Victoria Nuland chief architect of the 2014 overthrow of the elected government of Ukraine.
Fredrick Kagan who’s family is from Lithuania is employed by the American Enterprise Group and former Professor at West Point. He is a NEOCON who regularly contributes to The Institute for the Study of War – ISW. ISW was founded by his wife Kimberly Kagan and this think tank regularly takes a much more pro-NEOCON approach to the Syrian and Ukrainian conflicts advocating for more American involvement in war.
Kimberly Kagan founder of The Institute for the Study of War – ISW. This think tank is a NEOCON vehicle for pushing America into a deeper involvement in Syria and Ukraine. The ISW board includes General Jack Keane , Kimberly Kagan, former US Ambassador to the UN Kelly Craft,William Kristol , former US Senator Joseph Lieberman, Kevin Mandia, Jack D. McCarthy, Jr., Bruce Mosler, General David Petraeus, Warren Phillips, and William Roberti.
William Kristol arch NEOCON writer and philosopher who is a member of The Institute for the Study of War – ISW
Why are these people and more who have family ties to Ukraine running American policy in a proxy war against Russia?