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Jun 27 2020 05:47pm
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/russia-afghanistan-bounties.html

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WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials have concluded that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan — including targeting American troops — amid the peace talks to end the long-running war there, according to officials briefed on the matter.

The United States concluded months ago that the Russian unit, which has been linked to assassination attempts and other covert operations in Europe intended to destabilize the West or take revenge on turncoats, had covertly offered rewards for successful attacks last year.

Islamist militants, or armed criminal elements closely associated with them, are believed to have collected some bounty money, the officials said. Twenty Americans were killed in combat in Afghanistan in 2019, but it was not clear which killings were under suspicion.

The intelligence finding was briefed to President Trump, and the White House’s National Security Council discussed the problem at an interagency meeting in late March, the officials said. Officials developed a menu of potential options — starting with making a diplomatic complaint to Moscow and a demand that it stop, along with an escalating series of sanctions and other possible responses, but the White House has yet to authorize any step, the officials said.


Multiple outlets have confirmed the story, and CNN even has a European intelligence source confirming it.

White House response:



Well, this is strange.
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Jun 27 2020 05:50pm
Quote (IceMage @ Jun 27 2020 07:47pm)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/russia-afghanistan-bounties.html



Multiple outlets have confirmed the story, and CNN even has a European intelligence source confirming it.

White House response:

https://i.imgur.com/7h25mJl.jpg

Well, this is strange.






Honestly,... I'd be more interested to know who is paying YOU? ^^
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Jun 27 2020 06:10pm
What a cuck.

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Honestly,... I'd be more interested to know who is paying YOU? ^^


Treasonous statement.
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Jun 27 2020 06:23pm
Collusion confirmed :(
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Jun 27 2020 06:35pm
Almost everyone is trusting more the new york times than actual WH
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Jun 27 2020 06:52pm
Intelligence officials have concluded for the 34756th time that Russia bad and we need to have large standing armies in Europe & everywhere else around them. Tune in next week where we reveal why the DOD budget needs to grow once again!
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Jun 27 2020 06:55pm


News: Russia is colluding with the Taliban.

PaRD: Oh noes.

Ghot: Gee, maybe that's where all those AK-47's and AK-74's that the Taliban has, are coming from.

PaRD: Oh noes !!!!

News: Russia is giving the Taliban money too.

PaRD: OH NOES !!!!
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#8
Jun 28 2020 01:08pm
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1277202159109537793

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Nobody briefed or told me,
@VP
Pence, or Chief of Staff
@MarkMeadows
about the so-called attacks on our troops in Afghanistan by Russians, as reported through an “anonymous source” by the Fake News
@nytimes
. Everybody is denying it & there have not been many attacks on us.....

...Nobody’s been tougher on Russia than the Trump Administration. With Corrupt Joe Biden & Obama, Russia had a field day, taking over important parts of Ukraine - Where’s Hunter? Probably just another phony Times hit job, just like their failed Russia Hoax. Who is their “source”?


So first, Trump mischaracterizes what the Times report says. The claim was that the GRU was paying bounties to Taliban-linked groups to kill Americans and other coalition troops.

He says everybody is denying it, but that's not true. Ratcliffe is denying Trump and Pence were briefed on it, but he didn't say the report was wrong on the intelligence.

This looks to be a scandal any way you slice it, unless every news organization in the country has bad sources. Either Trump and his team are lying, or someone was holding back critical intelligence from the president and vice president.
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Jun 28 2020 04:22pm
Quote (Ghot @ Jun 27 2020 04:50pm)
Honestly,... I'd be more interested to know who is paying YOU? ^^


Go back to posting fake Twitter screenshots.
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Jun 28 2020 04:24pm
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Intelligence officials have concluded for the 34756th time that Russia bad and we need to have large standing armies in Europe & everywhere else around them. Tune in next week where we reveal why the DOD budget needs to grow once again!


Just don't thank people for their service.
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