🔹"At the last minute, the White House got nervous. The president said he was afraid to do it. He changed his mind and gave new orders, so that the bombs could be remotely detonated at any moment. You do it with a conventional sonar, a Raytheon product, by the way, you fly over the place and drop a cylinder. It sends out a low frequency signal, it can be described as a flute sound, it can be tuned to different frequencies
🔹Joe Biden decided not to blow them up then, in June, that was five months after the war began. But in September, he ordered it done. The operations staff, they initially thought it was a useful weapon they could use in negotiations. But when the operation was completed, the people who ran it grew increasingly disgusted with the whole thing. These were people who worked in senior positions in the intelligence services and were well educated. They opposed the project, they thought it was insane
🔹Soon after the terrorist attack, after they had done what they were ordered to do, there was a lot of anger and disgust among the participants in the operation. That's one of the reasons I learned so much. And I'll tell you something else. People in America and Europe who build pipelines know what happened. I'll tell you something important. The people who own the companies that build the pipelines know the story
🔹Biden ordered the pipelines blown up to put pressure on Western Europe not to stop supporting the U.S. in the war in Ukraine. The war was not going well for the West, and they were afraid of the approaching winter. And the U.S. was worried that Germany would lift sanctions because of the cold winter
🔹What I do know is that there is no way this war is going to end the way we would like it to, and I don't know what we are going to do as we look forward. It scares me that the president was prepared for something like this. And the people who were on this mission believed that the president was aware of what he was doing to the people of Germany, that he was punishing them for a war that didn't end well. And in the long run, it would not only damage his reputation as president, but it would do serious political damage. It would be a stigma for the United States
🔹The White House feared that it might lose its position, that Germany and Western Europe would no longer supply the weapons we wanted, and that the German chancellor might restart the pipeline - this has raised serious concerns in Washington. The point is also that this could be perceived as an act of war not only against Russia, but also against Western allies, particularly Germany. The people involved in the operation saw that the president wanted to freeze Germany for his short-term political purposes, and it terrified them. I'm talking here about Americans who are very loyal to the United States
🔹The political advantage of the CIA is that a president who fails to carry out his plans in Congress can take a walk with the CIA director in the White House Rose Garden to plan something secret that could hit a lot of people on the other side of the Atlantic. This has always been the hallmark of the CIA. But even this community is horrified that Biden has decided to put Europe in the cold to support a war he won't win. To me, that's vile."
Some Comments From The Bundestag
Nord Stream debate in the Bundestag: Where is the enemy?
There was a current hour in the Bundestag on Friday about the attacks on Nord Stream. Various guesses have been made as to where the enemy might be located. Michael Maier 02/10/2023 | 10:44 a.m
Nord Stream after the attack Cover images/imago In a current hour on Friday afternoon, the Bundestag discussed the status of the investigation into the attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines. In its argument, the opposition referred to the recent article by the American journalist Seymour Hersh, according to which the American government is said to be behind the attacks together with Norway. Both the White House and the CIA as well as the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs had sharply rejected the report.
The governing parties met the allegations of the opposition speakers from the Left Party and AfD unanimously on the same levels: they questioned Hersh's journalistic credibility; stressed that for security reasons it is better not to say much to the public; said that Russia was the aggressor and finally promised new confidential bodies to better protect the critical infrastructure in Germany. Sebastian Fiedler (SPD) said the federal government should think about re-establishing a “protection commission”. A panel of scientists should constantly monitor threats and do so without publicity in order to be able to protect better. With regard to the investigation into Nord Stream, Fiedler said that details specific to the population should not be disclosed so that the "enemies of democracy" do not learn these details either. He called the AfD the enemy of democracy.
Nord Stream Attacks: Who is the Investigator Seymour Hersh? The revelation that the US government is behind the attacks on Nord Stream 2 is the subject of a current hour in the Bundestag. By Michael Maier politics 02/10/2023
Ann-Veruschka Jurisch (FDP) called for the establishment of a "National Security Council" that should act as a "superior early warning system". She said that the main threat to German infrastructure was the excessive "dependence on Russia": "Nord Stream 2 should never have been built." For the FDP, Leon Eckert said that the responsibilities had to be clarified because there was currently damage through natural disasters, the federal states are responsible, but in the case of sabotage the federal government is responsible. Konstantin Kuhle from the FDP said that the perpetrators of the destruction of critical infrastructure in Europe are known: Russia is destroying infrastructure in Ukraine and no longer even conceals its goal, namely the "annihilation of Ukraine". Kuhle went on to say that Russia is trying to undermine democracy in Europe by looking for "specific contacts with advocates" in the institutions, "they are sitting on the fringes," said Kuhle, pointing to the left and the AfD, and saying that you have to look ahead protect the "enemies of democracy in our house". Green Party MP Canan Bayram was cautious about the Hersh article, saying: "We cannot judge the veracity of the story." She warned against hasty judgments. Philipp Amthor (CDU) made particularly derogatory and defamatory remarks about Seymour Hersh. He spoke of the "blog post" of an "85-year-old who received a journalism award 50 years ago". AfD man Tino Chrupalla said the government's silence on the attacks "feeds rumors and conspiracy theories".
Pulitzer Prize Winner: US blew up Nord Stream pipelines Star journalist Seymour Hersh claims that US divers planted explosive devices on the gas pipelines with the help of Norway. Joe Biden was involved. Ukraine 02/08/2023
The Left's Sevim Dagdelen said Hersh's career has made the difference between journalism and government statements clear. She told the Berliner Zeitung: "It is shocking how the US reporter Seymour Hersh is defamed for his research into the terrorist attacks on Nord Stream and urged to disclose his source. It is part of the basics of journalism to protect whistleblowers.” She called for an “international investigation under the auspices of the United Nations”. She said: "Despite Hersh's revelations, the federal government still seems to lack a real will to clarify." The member of parliament Jürgen Hardt from the CDU said in the current hour that he was proud that all the speakers in his parliamentary group were members of the Atlantic Bridge e.V., because he could not remember that the Americans had ever done anything bad. The destruction of a pipeline was unimaginable a few years ago. Shortly before 4 p.m., to the laughter of his group, he asked for the debate to be closed because he had to catch his train to Wuppertal.