Hersh wrote on Substack earlier this month, based on a single unnamed source, that the United States was involved in pipeline sabotage.
Asked by Bream whether the administration would have an obligation to notify Congress of such an operation, Kirby said, “Obviously we keep Congress appropriately informed about both classified and unclassified things. . But I can tell you now, regardless of the notification process, there was no US involvement in this.
Hersh is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, best known for his expose of the 1968 My Lai massacre by US troops in Vietnam and the Pentagon’s efforts to cover it up. In 2004, he chronicled the torture of prisoners by the military at Abu Ghraib in Iraq. But he has also drawn criticism for some of his reporting in recent years, including his challenges to the official US narrative of the murder of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
Russia, which invaded Ukraine a year ago this week, has relied on its revenue from energy exports to finance the war. President Joe Biden sanctioned the Russian company behind the pipelines last year.
David Cohen contributed to this report.
Politico
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