Nobody from the "American leadership" said Russia did it. They pushed back against disinformation spread by Russian propagandists like Seymour Hersh who were b

Nobody from the "American leadership" said Russia did it. They pushed back against disinformation spread by Russian propagandists like Seymour Hersh who were baselessly blaming the US and Norway without providing any credible proof. Seymour Hersh were later exposed to be a unknowing useful tool for Russian handlers because his "US security source" was using Russian idioms that no Westerner would use. Google "poor waif in his underwear".