White House officials on Wednesday dismissed a report from an investigative journalist alleging the United States was behind the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines last year.
“This is utterly false and complete fiction,” said Adrienne Watson, a spokesperson for the White House National Security Council, in a statement to news outlets on Wednesday. A State Department spokesperson issued a similar comment to Reuters.
Longtime investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, a former reporter with the New York Times and the New Yorker magazine who first gained prominence in 1969 for his reporting on the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War, published a report via his Substack page on Wednesday. It was titled, “How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline” and cited unnamed sources for his claims….