2/24/23 Seymour Hersh: How and Why America Blew Up Nord Stream

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Scott is joined by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh to discuss his recent story about the American operation to sabotage the Nord Stream pipelines last September. Scott and Hersh talk about the relevant history behind the operation as well as the strategic context around these pipelines between Germany and Russia. They also run through a number of Hersh’s other stories such as the fake assassination attempt on George H.W. Bush and the 2013 sarin attacks in Syria. Discussed on the show: “How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline” (Substack) SeymourHersh.Substack.com “Whose sarin?” (London Review of Books) “The Redirection” (The New Yorker) Seymour Hersh is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist famous for breaking the story of the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam. Since then, Hersh has broken many major stories on topics such as the Syrian Civil War and the raid on Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound. In February of 2023, Hersh began writing on Substack with a story about the US operation to sabotage the Nord Stream pipelines. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.4	Welcome back to the show, so how you doing?
1:03.2	Yeah, you know, hanging in there. Good. All right, so look, when they blew up the pipeline,
1:09.1	whoever it was, TV said the Russians obviously blew up their own pipeline everyone knows that but now you're reporting otherwise you say that America had the means motive and the opportunity to blow up the Nord Streams that's three out of four of the Nord Stream pipelines.
1:23.0	That's three out of four of the Nord Stream one and two pipelines.
1:26.6	So do tell your story, please, sir.
1:29.6	Well, I can tell it quickly.
1:32.0	I don't think what the media did was follow the lead of the White House.
1:36.0	There were some briefings. The White House effort was blown up. There was a news conference
1:41.2	and with Jake Sullivan National Security Advisor and he then somebody asked
1:46.2	that we thought the Russians did it and he did all the usual stuff well it sounds like the Russians
1:49.7	looks like the Russians that's about all they did.
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