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Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops (1 Viewer)

Rogue Valley said:
Trump has known about this bounty system for months.

:::crickets:::
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iguanaman said:
Yes. Yet again he sides with Putin. This time it cost Americans their lives. Putin will be laughing out of the other side of his face once Biden is elected
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Kayleigh McEnany, White House press secretary, "The United States receives thousands of intelligence reports a day, and they are subject to strict scrutiny. While the White House does not routinely comment on alleged intelligence or internal deliberations, the CIA director, national security adviser, and the chief of staff can all confirm that neither the president nor the vice president were briefed on the alleged Russian bounty intelligence," she said on Saturday.

White House: Trump wasn't briefed on 'alleged Russian bounty intelligence'

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, “The White House statement addressing this issue earlier today, which denied such a briefing occurred, was accurate. The New York Times reporting, and all other subsequent news reports about such an alleged briefing are inaccurate.”

Spy chief Ratcliffe says Trump never briefed on Russia offering Taliban bounties
 
dave8383 said:
They were a threat because they are the ones that allowed al Qaeda to use Afghanistan as their home base.
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thank you Captain Obvious.
There are ways to go after terrorists in AfPak besides a heavy land force.
I'm not going to get into a discussion of drones/signature strikes etc,
but we can do almost all of that by air
 
hanger4 said:
Kayleigh McEnany, White House press secretary, "The United States receives thousands of intelligence reports a day, and they are subject to strict scrutiny. While the White House does not routinely comment on alleged intelligence or internal deliberations, the CIA director, national security adviser, and the chief of staff can all confirm that neither the president nor the vice president were briefed on the alleged Russian bounty intelligence," she said on Saturday.

White House: Trump wasn't briefed on 'alleged Russian bounty intelligence'

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, “The White House statement addressing this issue earlier today, which denied such a briefing occurred, was accurate. The New York Times reporting, and all other subsequent news reports about such an alleged briefing are inaccurate.”

Spy chief Ratcliffe says Trump never briefed on Russia offering Taliban bounties
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the plot thickens :confused:
 
annata said:
thank you Captain Obvious.
There are ways to go after terrorists in AfPak besides a heavy land force.
I'm not going to get into a discussion of drones/signature strikes etc,
but we can do almost all of that by air
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If that was so obvious why are you still missing the point?
 
The real problem here is that the President knew about this and didn't say anything, and in the meantime he pushed for Russia to be brought back into the G7.
 
annata said:
occupy/prop up/have a 'tiger by the tail' -use whatever you like.
We went in without a viable exit strategy except nebulous nation building that was doomed to fail.
we should have left ages ago -we should never have gone in heavy -we should have used a "whack a mole" (counterterrorism) strategy

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a couple million mean not that much to China population density. But I get the Belt Road initiative
I agree on Tibet especially since I am Vajrayana Buddhist

I am all fro killing terrorist "over there" - but Afghan is more about killing Taliban
which are no real threat to the USA..to be clear I'm fine with hitting terrorist activities from the air
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Not in my neighborhood you don't.

Not in any USA neighborhood for that matter.

Our armed forces belong overseas engaged, not at home putting up barbed wire and walls. Not at home busting up demonstrators. Our armed forces don't want to do either of these nor anything like 'em. You must want an armed forces of domestic broom pushers and lawn trimmers in parks.
 
Tangmo said:
"The media" during the Cold War was owned by Republicans-Conservatives so they focused on Americans believing there was a commie under every bed. That and the exchange of captured spies of each side. And the "missile gap" that never existed.
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A Missile Gap that never existed? You can not be serious. The Soviets fielded many class of ICBM that were easily characterized as first strike weapons. Specifically designed to eliminate our arsenal. One of them is still in service.
 
Jredbaron96 said:
The real problem here is that the President knew about this and didn't say anything, and in the meantime he pushed for Russia to be brought back into the G7.
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Actually the real problem is with the NYT's anonymous sources.
 
hanger4 said:
Actually the real problem is with the NYT's anonymous sources.
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Protecting the anonymity of one's sources has been the standard for news media for decades but only seemed to become a problem when Trump was elected. I wonder why.
 
Dannytoro1 said:
A Missile Gap that never existed? You can not be serious. The Soviets fielded many class of ICBM that were easily characterized as first strike weapons. Specifically designed to eliminate our arsenal. One of them is still in service.
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It's true though. The Soviet Strategic Rocket Corps didn't match US capabilities until the mid to late 70s, and up until the fall of the USSR there were significant gaps in the Soviet early warning network.
 
Tangmo said:
Not in my neighborhood you don't.

Not in any USA neighborhood for that matter.

Our armed forces belong overseas engaged, not at home putting up barbed wire and walls. Not at home busting up demonstrators. Our armed forces don't want to do either of these nor anything like 'em. You must want an armed forces of domestic broom pushers and lawn trimmers in parks.
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FFS. I'm not talking using US air on domestics -
i'm talking about what we already do worldwide with drone strikes and bombs
 
hanger4 said:
Actually the real problem is with the NYT's anonymous sources.
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The DNI basically confirmed it was true while trying to cover for Trump's inaction.
 
Jredbaron96 said:
Protecting the anonymity of one's sources has been the standard for news media for decades but only seemed to become a problem when Trump was elected. I wonder why.
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because time and time again WAPO has run unsubstantiated "anonymous sources" -the NYTimes has even said they dont need to be objective sine Trump is a unique "threat"
 
Jredbaron96 said:
Protecting the anonymity of one's sources has been the standard for news media for decades but only seemed to become a problem when Trump was elected. I wonder why.
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Unsubstantiated anonymous sources have always been a problem. At this point the NYT's anonymous sources aren't corroborated and McEnany's statement can and has been corroborated.
 
hanger4 said:
Unsubstantiated anonymous sources have always been a problem. At this point the NYT's anonymous sources aren't corroborated and McEnany's statement can and has been corroborated.
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So what do you have a problem with, the intelligence or that Trump and Pence were briefed? If they were not briefed, why?
 
Airyaman said:
So what do you have a problem with, the intelligence or that Trump and Pence were briefed? If they were not briefed, why?
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"The intelligence assessment is said to be based at least in part on interrogations of captured Afghan militants and criminals"- NYTime article
 
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