Darin LaHood and the White House are both are saying there’s no evidence to suggest that the Nord Stream Pipeline was blown up by the United States and that the explosion is still under investigation, according to the congressman.
On Sept. 26 2022, a series of deep-sea explosions rocked the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 natural-gas pipelines along the bottom of the Baltic Sea near the Danish island of Bornholm. The bombings severed three of the Nord Stream projects’ four underwater pipelines, which were built to transport a direct supply of natural gas from Russia to customers in Western Europe and to Germany.
“The information that came out recently by public reporting was that most likely the Ukrainians were the ones that were involved with the rupture of the Nord Stream pipeline in the sea…” said LaHood. “There’s obvious continued investigation going on, but I don’t think that [information that the Ukrainians blew it up] should surprise anybody. There’s the largest ground war since WWII occurring in Ukraine and so there’s lots of different things going on in that war. And the public reporting that’s out there says Ukrainians or their militias were involved with that is, again, the information that’s out there. I don’t have any information that leads me to believe the US was involved with that.”
Has Darin LaHood seen the reports of Seymour Hersh?
Seymour Hersh received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. During the 1970s, Hersh covered the Watergate scandal for The New York Times, also reporting on the secret U.S. bombing of Cambodia and the CIA’s program of domestic spying.
“I have seen the reporting but I have seen other reporting that is not consistent with that. But I do know there is an on-going investigation into what happened there and we have to get to the bottom of it,” said LaHood, who was appointed as the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence’s National Security Agency (NSA) and Cyber Subcommittee. “When you are at war, these types of things happen. I’ve not seen anything to believe the US was involved with it. There’s contradictory evidence to that.”
According to Hersh’s reports: Last June, the Navy divers, operating under the cover of a widely publicized mid-summer NATO exercise known as BALTOPS 22, planted the remotely triggered explosives that, three months later, destroyed three of the four Nord Stream pipelines, according to a source with direct knowledge of the operational planning.
Also according to Hersh’s reports: Biden’s decision to sabotage the pipelines came after more than nine months of highly secret back and forth debate inside Washington’s national security community about how to best achieve that goal. For much of that time, the issue was not whether to do the mission, but how to get it done with no overt clue as to who was responsible.
And on Feb. 7 2022, before the pipeline blew up:
President Joe Biden said on Feb. 7 2022, “there will no longer be Nord Stream 2,” a crucial European gas pipeline, if Russia further invades Ukraine with “tanks or troops.”
The Russian invasion of Ukraine started on Feb. 24, 2022.
Early March 2023, President Joe Biden met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the White House on Friday in a one-on-one meeting in which the war in Ukraine was the main focus.
The meeting did not include a press delegation and a few days after this meeting The New York Times published a story: ” New intelligence reviewed by U.S. officials suggests that a pro-Ukrainian group carried out the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines last year.”
Ukraine has denied any involvement in September’s attack on the Nord Stream pipelines, which were built to carry Russian natural gas to Germany.
The denial follows a report from the New York Times, which cites anonymous US intelligence officials who suggest a pro-Ukrainian group was to blame.
Russia has blamed the West for the explosions and called on the UN Security Council to independently investigate them.
