Seymour Hersh's Nord Stream Bombing Expose
A important detail of Seymour Hersh's scoop is that the U.S. Deep State plotters DID NOT use (or, more precisely, were prohibited from using) U.S. Special Forces for the Pipeline operation. Instead, the Deep State team used "trainees" of the "U.S. Navy's obscure deep-diving group in Panama City" Florida for the operation.
As Hersh reports:
…."There was a vital bureaucratic reason for relying on the graduates of the center’s hardcore diving school in Panama City. The divers were Navy only,
and not members of America’s Special Operations Command
whose covert operations must be reported to Congress and briefed in advance to the Senate and House leadership—the so-called Gang of Eight. The Biden Administration was doing everything possible to avoid leaks as the planning took place late in 2021 and into the first months of 2022."….
Newfags and visitors here must keep in mind the ongoing covert civil-war in the U.S. between the Deep State and those patriotic forces in the U.S., both civilian and military, who are still honoring their oaths to support and defend the U.S. Constitution and to follow the orders of their authentic CinC.
It is important to understand that during the last few months before January 20, 2021, Trump, et al, pulled off their own spectacular administrative coup against the DS by formalizing the move to place the entirety of U.S. Special Forces directly under the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) which, in turn, reports DIRECTLY to the civilian U.S. Secrerary of Defense, a Member of the Presidential Cabinet.
Practically speaking, Trump's emasculated the DS by prohibiting the CIA or any other governmental agency or department, from exercising its former carte blanche use of U.S. Special Forces for its clandestine operations. In essence, Trump defanged and declawed the Deep State by removing its primary operational asset, both in terms of force, lethality and speed, in carrying out its clandestine operations. Though Brandon allegedly had the power to reverse this game-changing move, he failed to do so. Instead, Brandon merely ordered that SOCOM report to a deputy Secretary of Defense rather than Austin himself. This slight change likely had more to do with Austin than anything else.
This is a critical fact to consider when attempting to analyze the byzantine operations of Western spooks and operators with boots on the ground in Ukraine, or anywhere else in the World. It is also an embarrassing "tell" for the rest of the World's Intelligence Community, that the World's most feared bully, the CIA, has finally received its long overdue comeuppance. More important, it clarifies who has come up on top in the internal civil war which has been quietly raging over the last 6 years.
Anecdotally, due to Trump's evisceration of its operational assets and resources, the Deep State has been forced to hire its own private operators primarily comprised of former SFs operators who were either dropped from U.S. Special Operations Command, or who retired/jumped ship to earn a more lucrative, but highly risky career, as a Deep State operator. Risky because these former "hunters" have now become the "hunted" as the covert civil war, mentioned above, is quickly becoming a one-sided affair.
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