• [The Record of the Paper]Intelligence Suggests Pro-Ukrainian Group Sabo

    From ltlee1@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 8 11:40:15 2023
    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/us/politics/nord-stream-pipeline-sabotage-ukraine.html?

    "WASHINGTON — New intelligence reviewed by U.S. officials suggests that a pro-Ukrainian group carried out the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines last year, a step toward determining responsibility for an act of sabotage that has confounded
    investigators on both sides of the Atlantic for months.

    U.S. officials said that they had no evidence President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine or his top lieutenants were involved in the operation, or that the perpetrators were acting at the direction of any Ukrainian government officials.

    The brazen attack on the natural gas pipelines, which link Russia to Western Europe, fueled public speculation about who was to blame, from Moscow to Kyiv and London to Washington, and it has remained one of the most consequential unsolved mysteries of
    Russia’s year-old war in Ukraine."

    The New York Times published an article with the headline of
    "Sabotaged Pipelines and a Mystery: Who Did It? (Was It Russia?)" last September.

    It chose to totally ignore Seymour Hersh's long article suggesting the pipeline bombings were deliberately planned action directed by the US.

    Well, despite the silence of most US corporate media, the issue are not going away by itself. So, someone has to take the blame to counter the report by Hersh. Viola, a new but otherwise unknown and untraceable "pro-Ukraine" group was named. And again
    the New York Times is dutifully repeating the new finding.

    While the New York Times has considered itself the paper of record. Looking from the outside, one has to ask "What is the record of the paper".

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