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“How America took out the Nord Stream pipeline”

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688 points hunglee2 | 2 comments | 08 Feb 23 12:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.432s | source
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hackandthink ◴[08 Feb 23 19:02 UTC] No.34712999[source]▶
I once read (Don DeLillo?):

The John F. Kennedy assassination could not have been a conspiracy, some conspirator would have spoken sooner or later (maybe on his/her death bed).

This is obviously not a lone perpetrator, so the truth will come out.

But it may take decades, e.g.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident

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1. sschueller ◴[08 Feb 23 19:08 UTC] No.34713110[source]▶
Maybe not today with the internet and the speed at which this stuff gets out. Things get hacked and documents leak digitally which is way easier than someone breaking into a physical building and riffling through old documents. Additionally as we have seen with Trump, Biden and Pence it appears that the way the administration deals with secret documents can be quite sloppy.
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2. hackandthink ◴[08 Feb 23 19:24 UTC] No.34713413[source]▶
Yes, it seems really hard to keep things secret. I guess it would be easier for a country known to kill journalists (thinking of Russia here, Assange is alive).

And everything is recorded nowadays. (people like Biden are great security risks)