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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDuckworth asks Esper whether DOD is probing links between troop deaths and Russian bounties
It is unacceptable that to date, the Trump administration appears to be ignoring a matter of great importance to Gold Star family members whose loved ones were killed while serving in Afghanistan: were any U.S. troop casualties in Afghanistan connected with the alleged [Russian military intelligence service] bounty payments to Taliban-linked militants?, Duckworth wrote in a letter sent Thursday to Defense Secretary Mark Esper.
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Thursdays letter is the latest action by the senator in response to the reports regarding the intelligence assessments. Duckworth also requested in June that the Senate Armed Services Committee hold a public hearing on the intelligence. - Stars and Stripes
Nevilledog
(51,268 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I know Sen. Duckworth doesn't need to be told, but mercy! A lot of news outlets seem to have forgotten all about this. Sure, there is a lot of crap flying around all day every day, but this story seems like it could be important on several levels.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Instead of those embarrassments Inhofe and the ginger Lurch
Wednesdays
(17,462 posts)We call him Skeletor.
(edit: fixed spelling)
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Cha
(297,935 posts)ffr
(22,676 posts)Mahalo to you, ffr!
Champp
(2,114 posts)He, and his fellow Republican shitheels, and his Russian pals, want this whole sordid affair to be buried in firehose flood of irrelevant propaganda and evasion.
Cha
(297,935 posts)trump expects people to believe the Intelligence community treats him like a gd mushroom.. kept in the dark and fed Shite.. because that's what he DOES.
Link to tweet
erronis
(15,428 posts)information. I know they are independent and have been harassed by this bone-spur administration.
They reach a lot of people, especially vets - older, mainly white, mainly males.
When these vets get motivated, there's no PR campaign by the WH/pascale/fux-news that will change their minds. Fux will lose almost all of its viewers!
tavernier
(12,410 posts)Im so proud of Tammy for staying on top of it!
Shes like a tenacious little bulldog,
standing up for our troops and their families.
safeinOhio
(32,744 posts)Please.
Stuart G
(38,454 posts)At least Sen. Duckworth is keeping this alive. I've been totally dismayed that its been allowed to sink under the horizon both as a veteran and as an American.
Ford_Prefect
(7,927 posts)of a group of uniformed men each wearing human ears in a necklace around their necks. The ears were supposed proof of a VC kill. The soldiers were a Special Forces unit attached to the 101st Airborne division and were known as Tiger Force.
I do not know that Tiger Force were paid extra for each pair of ears. I heard that a similar practice was said to have occurred in Africa during 1950s when Kenya fought the UK for independence. British special forces were used to hunt rebellious Mau-Mau and proof of a kill was the ears.
The idea that substantial reward would have no effect on attacks against US troops, or that courtroom quality, jury proof, evidence could be the only measure is ludicrous. The Russians are rather particular that they get value for money. So if the money was there it was paid for a reason and a result.
onethatcares
(16,204 posts)crickets. just fuckin crickets.