“How America took out the Nord Stream pipeline”

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dang ◴[08 Feb 23 18:31 UTC] No.34712496[source]▶

All: Whether he is right or not or one likes him or not, Hersh reporting on this counts as significant new information (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...), so I've turned off the flags on this submission.

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kstenerud ◴[08 Feb 23 19:48 UTC] No.34713823[source]▶

>>34712496 #

Just flagged this in the hopes that you'll reconsider.

It's no secret that Hersh's work has become increasingly suspect in recent years. Every time he writes, he cites a single anonymous source and yet manages to go into an implausible level of detail and completeness with neatly tied up loose ends you'd only expect to find in a Tom Clancy novel. The only reason this story has been rescued from the dustbin is due to Hersh's (old) reputation, which though well earned, shouldn't just give him a pass.

https://www.businessinsider.com/robert-grenier-reflects-on-s...

https://www.vox.com/2015/12/21/10634002/seymour-hersh-syria-...

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1. hef19898 ◴[08 Feb 23 19:53 UTC] No.34713894[source]▶

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Yeah, instead of blog posts Hersh should write spy thrillers in tje tradition of the early Tom Clancy works. I would even pay for those, I like the setting and the narrative Hersh oresented in this blog, and the writing, are compelling and good. For a fictional book, not for journalism.

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2. pasquinelli ◴[09 Feb 23 00:50 UTC] No.34718130[source]▶

>>34713894 (TP) #

such an odd thing how so many people are likening to tom clancy. are these people comparing notes?

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3. _djo_ ◴[09 Feb 23 12:24 UTC] No.34722924[source]▶

>>34718130 #

Clancy is far and away the most famous and notable writer of this kind of stuff though, and the name that would have come to me first too if I wanted to make a similar point.

He had a lock on the genre like nobody else before or since.

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4. ◴[09 Feb 23 12:33 UTC] No.34723014{3}[source]▶

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5. subsistence234 ◴[09 Feb 23 15:08 UTC] No.34725066[source]▶

>>34718130 #

not only on hackernews, also on reddit and twitter. all following a similar script.

6. MickerNews ◴[09 Feb 23 19:59 UTC] No.34730420[source]▶

>>34713894 (TP) #

Are you saying you doubt that the US did this? Seriously? Do you have an alternative theory?

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