Trump Pushed CIA to Give Intelligence to Kremlin, While Taking No Action Against Russia Arming Talib

[soothsayer]

It’s a nice long article


https://www.justsecurity.org/71279/trump-pushed-cia-to-give-intelligence-to-kremlin-while-taking-no-action-against-russia-arming-taliban/

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Why would the Russian government think it could get away with paying bounties to the Taliban to kill American soldiers? One answer to that question may be the extraordinary response that Moscow received when the Trump administration learned of a precursor to the bounty operation. From mid-2017 and into 2018, Pentagon officials became increasingly confident in intelligence reports that the Kremlin was arming the Taliban, which posed a significant threat to American and coalition forces on the ground in Afghanistan.

President Trump’s actions in the face of the Russia-Taliban arms program likely signaled weak US resolve in the eyes of Putin and Russian military intelligence.

Three dimensions of Trump’s response are described in detail in this article, based on interviews with several former Trump administration officials who spoke to Just Security on the record.

First, President Trump decided not to confront Putin about supplying arms to the terrorist group. Second, during the very times in which U.S. military officials publicly raised concerns about the program’s threat to U.S. forces, Trump undercut them. He embraced Putin, overtly and repeatedly, including at the historic summit in Helsinki. Third, behind the scenes, Trump directed the CIA to share intelligence information on counterterrorism with the Kremlin despite no discernible reward, former intelligence officials who served in the Trump administration told Just Security.

[SlogginThroughIt]

2. What is justsecurity.org

Any other sources for this story?

[soothsayer]

5. Yeah I've actually posted some other sources before

Here’s sort of a follow-up on it (surprise! Russia takes our info and kills people).

Interestingly, it references that justsecurity.org

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-used-us-intel-sharing-to-pursue-chechnya-dissidents-sources-2020-7

Aha! I think I posted this one once:

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/bombshell-report-says-trump-ordered-cia-to-share-counterterrorism-intel-with-russia-despite-no-discernible-reward/

[SlogginThroughIt]

6. Awesome! Thanks.

I just know if I posted it on social media some people I know would ask.

[soothsayer]

7. He doesn't hide most of the horrifying things he does

There are probably more stories out there

[soothsayer]

8. Hang on: that also loops back to justsecurity

[soothsayer]

9. The place checks out

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/just-security/

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A factual search reveals they have not failed a fact check.

Overall, we rate Just Security Left-Center Biased based on story selection and editorial positions that moderately favor the left. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact check record. (D. Van Zandt 7/29/2017) Updated (1/3/2020)

[Cha]

3. No.. he's not "Putin's Puppet".

Hillary Warned Us.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. So, will any of these fucking "former" scumbags go on TV and spill it? The answer

is still "NO".