https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1668720685617762307
Even if we just blindly believe the CIA here, this doesn't mean anything. Maybe the CIA **did ** tell Ukraine not to do it as the story says, but then someone higher up at the CIA overruled that later. Or maybe the CIA didn't want Ukraine to do it because they wanted to do it themselves in a more professional way. Or to find a 3rd party that would do it instead. Or to just wait and do it latter. Just the statement "we told them not to do it at this specific point" only implies that Ukraine and the CIA had plans and motivation to do it, but the CIA didn't want to do it at that specific point or in that specific way.
Limited hang-out that's been increasing by degrees. They'll do anything but confirm Hersh was right within the next year or so because they want to bash him and discourage others. Then like 10 years from now it'll come out he got the basic facts of the story completely correct with maybe a minor nitpick or two and it'll come out in a predictably meaningless and swept under the carpet way in the form of some natsec ghoul in the Executive or military casually mentioning the truth about it at like a think tank forum or summit and all the big newspapers ignoring it or ignoring that it's an important revelation and vindicates Hersh.