NATO officials say they were briefed on Russian bounties on US soldiers in Afghanistan

[sabra]

Source: Business Insider

Three NATO officials say they had been briefed on intelligence that Russian operatives were secretly offering cash bounties to Taliban-linked militants for US casualties in Afghanistan — as President Donald Trump claimed he was not, and dismissed news reports on the intelligence as a "possibly another fabricated Russia Hoax."

The revelation that US intelligence had briefed the White House on the Taliban bounties had been a closely-held secret for several months, until US officials began briefing UK and other European allies last week.

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However, three NATO military officials told Insider on Monday they had been briefed by US intelligence of the potential threat, with two of them saying they were given the briefing about one week ago. None of the three officials have permission to be named in the press, but their identities are known to Insider.

"We were briefed {by the Americans} on a potential threat to our troops in Afghanistan from operatives potentially linked to the Russian intelligence services," one NATO military intelligence official told Insider on Monday.

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-bounty-us-soldiers-afghanistan-nato-officials-briefed-trump-denies-2020-6

[Sneederbunk]

1. He knew.

[Iliyah]

4. And did nada .. ..

[progressoid]

19. He did something. He went golfing.

[Roc2020]

13. Yes he did. And everyone knows

what the outcome should be but will not say out loud to any media.

[Cha]

2. KR!

[soothsayer]

3. Why are we briefing NATO officials on a hoax?

Oh. Because it’s not a hoax.

[sheshe2]

5. K&R

[BComplex]

6. So you're telling me that we kept this from our NATO allies until a few weeks ago?

"The revelation that US intelligence had briefed the White House on the Taliban bounties had been a closely-held secret for several months, until US officials began briefing UK and other European allies last week."

That's no way to treat your friends. We could have put their soldiers at risk, as well, in case allied forces were with the American soldiers targeted.

[calimary]

14. And they are well aware of the "no way to treat your friends" thing.

They’re pretty doggone smart. Ask them about COVID containment, for example.

[Throck]

7. Should we be protesting at the Russian embassies?

Everyone could put on tRUMP masks.

[Docreed2003]

8. Amazing

So we're to believe this intelligence wasn't impressive enough to brief the President but it WAS deemed significant enough to brief our NATO allies? Yeah that's BS....Trump knew & didn't nothing. Now, they're hoping to bluster their way out of this media coverage

[Lock him up.]

16. Not only the orange-viRu$-$ia did nothing...

... he invited his puppetma$ter back in the G7 (to make the G8 great again)...

Their response (even before that breifing...): Niet. Ain't going because... SARS-CoV-2... (smart).


Vote Blue To Make Justice Great Again: Lock him up (like Cohen... at the very least...)!

[MontanaMama]

9. And still...as of this morning...

The MF has said nothing about this. Even if we were to believe the lie that he didn’t know...he knows NOW and.....crickets.

[Scarsdale]

10. Exactly how deeply in debt

is he to Vlad? Hey, Donnie, we WILL find out sooner rather than later. Believe me. Many people are saying that. Remember your son Butthead a/k/a Eric "We have all the money we need, flowing in from Russia" Maybe it was the other son, Beavis who claimed that.

[MontanaMama]

12. I forgot about that.

They’re both idiot buttheads...so there...

[CaptainTruth]

21. Both of them did. Their quotes:

[link:

[mtngirl47]

17. Yes he did---he called it a hoax about 2 hours ago.

Here's the NPR report:

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/885909588/trump-calls-bounty-report-a-hoax-despite-administration-s-briefing-of-congress

[gordianot]

11. He knew, he didn't know; the ultimate binary loaded question.

How do you explain this to Gold Star families? Hoax does not cut it.

[BComplex]

15. Right. BUT he DOES know since last week, and NOTHING has happened to Pootie Poot.

That tells you everything you need to know.

[calimary]

18. I like the photo in your posts.

[Traildogbob]

20. Ben---Gah---Zee---!