{"id":1841066,"date":"2023-02-09T12:06:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T17:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1841066"},"modified":"2023-02-09T12:07:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T17:07:27","slug":"white-house-denies-report-that-u-s-blew-up-nord-stream-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-denies-report-that-u-s-blew-up-nord-stream-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Denies Report That U.S. Blew Up Nord Stream Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-denies-report-that-u-s-blew-up-nord-stream-pipeline%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1841066&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/100-10-19\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">T<\/span>The White House denied Wednesday a report by controversial investigative reporter Seymour Hersh claiming that the United States was behind attacks on the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nord-stream-ii\">Nord Stream<\/a> Gas pipelines 1 and 2 linking <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/russia\">Russia<\/a> Germany <\/p>\n<p>Hersh is an investigative journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize and was a former <i>New Yorker<\/i> Staff writer, whose reporting has been frequently under scrutiny in recent years, wrote in <u><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/seymourhersh.substack.com\/p\/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream?utm_source=Daily%20on%20Energy%20020823%20b_02\/08\/2023&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=WEX_Daily%20on%20Energy&#038;rid=74818&#038;env=5e416aea0ec04794aefc1bf38e8732bcac2624a1a0facc3bb148508a175cb68c\">Substack post<\/a><\/u> Wednesday&#8217;s Nord Stream blasts were a covert operation by Navy divers working under cover of NATO military exercises. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/western-sanctions-russian-oil-revenue-lowest-point-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WESTERN SANCTIONS PUSH RUSSIAN OL and ENERGY REV to the LOWEST POINTS SINCE 2020<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last June, Navy divers operating under thecover of [the NATO exercise] BALTOPS 22 (also known as BALTOPS 22) planted the remotely triggered explosives, which were used to destroy three of the four. [pipelines],\u201d Hersh wrote. <\/p>\n<p>In his lengthy post, he cited only one anonymous source. He claimed that he had received the information from a friend. \u201cdirect knowledge of the operational planning.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The report was denied by U.S. intelligence and national security officials. <\/p>\n<p>Adrienne Watson, spokesperson for the White House National Security Council told The <i>Washington Examiner<\/i> the report was &#8220;false and complete fiction.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Tammy Thorp, CIA spokesperson, stated that the <i>Washington<\/i> <i>Examiner<\/i> Send an email to: \u201cThis claim is completely and utterly false.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Hersh&#8217;s article caused Russia&#8217;s foreign ministry on Wednesday to weigh in, asking that the U.S. reply. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe White House must now comment on all these facts,\u201d Maria Zakharova, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, spoke on Telegram <\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BasedMikeLee\/status\/1623390986486292495\">Tweet<\/a> Writing about Wednesday&#8217;s report &#8220;If false, slander. If true, war.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Four undersea explosions caused damage to the Nord Stream pipelines in September. Officials from Europe claimed that the explosions were responsible for &#8220;extensive damage&#8221; Nord Stream 1 was the main gas artery that links Russia and the EU. It supplied the bulk of the bloc\u2019s supplies up until Moscow cut off its deliveries last summer. <\/p>\n<p>Construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline was completed by late 2021 but it was not brought online because Russia&#8217;s looming invasion. <\/p>\n<p>Separate investigations by the Swedish and Danish security officials have been conducted into the explosions that occurred within their exclusive economic zones. <\/p>\n<p>They joined President Joe Biden, as well as several other Western leaders, in calling the blasts an act of aggression. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/nord-stream-blasts-confirmed-sabotage-sweden\">&#8220;gross sabotage<\/a>,&#8221; Although neither country has concluded its investigation or identified the perpetrators of the explosions, <\/p>\n<p>Officials from the Swedish Security Office, as well the Danish Security And Intelligence Service, declined to comment on Hersh\u2019s reports. <i>Washington Examiner<\/i> They cannot comment on the current status of an investigation. European leaders <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/putin-accuses-us-and-its-allies-of-sabotaging-nord-stream-pipelines\">Vowed<\/a> Last fall, it was clear that any deliberate act would result in a criminal prosecution \u201crobust and united response.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Germany is also currently conducting its own investigation into these blasts. The local news outlet was informed by Peter Frank, German Attorney General. <i>Die Welt<\/i> Interview Sunday: It is too early for us to make any conclusion about the cause of the explosions. <\/p>\n<p>He also refused to call the blasts sabotage. &#8220;[What] I can say is that the suspicion that this was a foreign sabotage action has not yet been substantiated,&#8221; He said. <\/p>\n<p>Hersh (now 85) has been criticized for his reporting in the past decade. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Hersh has disputed the U.S. government\u2019s account of the 2011 killing of Osama bin Laden and questioned the Syrian government&#8217;s use of sarin gas, a chemical weapon, in its attacks on civilians. <\/p>\n<p>He said in a 2018 interview that he \u201cdoesn\u2019t necessarily buy the story that bin Laden was responsible for 9\/11.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TThe White House denied Wednesday a report by controversial investigative reporter Seymour Hersh claiming that the United States was behind attacks on the Nord Stream Gas pipelines 1 and 2 linking Russia Germany Hersh is an investigative journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize and was a former New Yorker Staff writer, whose reporting has been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1841069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[11122,4775,3653,5915,4950,3819,5916,7238,3765],"class_list":["post-1841066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-blew","tag-denies","tag-house","tag-nord","tag-pipeline","tag-report","tag-stream","tag-u-s","tag-white"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1841069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}