Seymour Hersh has a message from U.S. intelligence to Biden: Your Ukraine policy is a disaster. “Pity the Washington columnists and national security correspondents who seem to rely heavily on official backgrounders with White House and State Department officials,” Hersh writes in his latest article, “Prigozhin’s Folly,” posted yesterday. “Given the published results of such briefings, those officials seem unable to look at the reality of the past few weeks, or the total disaster that has befallen the Ukraine military’s counter-offensive.”
After providing “a look at what is really going on” from “a knowledgeable source in the American intelligence community"—an account of the Prigozhin insurrection which is fully coherent with the assessments of independent experts such as Scott Ritter—Hersh gets to the main point: “There is an enormous gap between the way the professionals in the American intelligence community assess the situation and what the White House and the supine Washington press project to the public by uncritically reproducing the statements of Blinken and his hawkish cohorts.” He warns that the current battlefield statistics that were shared with him “suggest that the Biden administration’s overall foreign policy may be at risk in Ukraine.”
“The Washington press in recent days seems to be slowly coming to grips with the enormity of the disaster, but there is no public evidence that President Biden and his senior aides in the White House and State Department aides understand the situation,” Hersh writes.
