Alexander RutholThings one should know about the coverage of the NordStream sabotage:
1. Seymour Hersh's story has been debunked.
https://oalexanderdk.substack.com/p/blowing-holes-in-seymour-hershs-pipe
#Hersh #hersch #Nordstream
2. Seymour Hersh has a history of being a politically motivated liar:
https://bellingcat.com/news/mena/2017/06/25/will-get-fooled-seymour-hersh-welt-khan-sheikhoun-chemical-attack/
#KhanSheikhoun #Syria #Assad #GasAttack
https://bellingcat.com/news/mena/2017/06/25/will-get-fooled-seymour-hersh-welt-khan-sheikhoun-chemical-attack/
#KhanSheikhoun #Syria #Assad #GasAttack
Will Get Fooled Again - Seymour Hersh, Welt, and the Khan Sheikhoun Chemical Attack - bellingcat
Translations:English (UK)Русский (Россия)On June 25th 2017 the German newspaper, Welt, published the latest piece by Seymour Hersh, countering the “mainstream” narrative around the April 4th 2017 Khan Sheikhoun chemical attack in Syria. The attack, where Sarin was allegedly used against the local population, dropped in a bomb by the Syrian Air Force, resulted in President Trump taking […]
3. The New York article which blamed "an Ukrainian group", is anonymously sourced (hello again, FBI New York Field Office!) and a "low confidence" assessment.
"Low confidence" means it's one step up from a guess.
The confidence levels are:
"High confidence: Certainly, most likely, etc. Medium confidence: Likely, probably, etc. Low confidence: Possibly, may or may not, etc."
The article also contains very few details which can be checked.
4. This means that at the current time no one knows who blew up the NordStream pipeline, but we DO know it didn't happen the way noted fantasist Seymour Hersh claims.
(Also, that the DoJ really really *really* need to rein in and clean up the FBI New York Field Office.)
5. Interestingly, russian propaganda accounts refuse to accept the NYT story that some Ukrainian group was behind the attack, and continues to support the debunked Hersh story.
https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1633800213734277121?s=20