Russia bounty on US troops

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carlos86 said:
They seem to leave a lot of tracks where ever they go. The British Intelligence were able to literally trace their chemical tracks to the airport gate which is wild.
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We tracked thermal tracks from the few Taliban tanks they had operating during Enduring Freedom. Made it easy to see which tanks worked and which ones we could ignore and bomb.

How many times did you hear about Taliban tanks? Yep..I did thoroughly enjoy watching the live Predator streams of those getting hit by B1B's.
 
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I realize that some of you wont trust the source, but this may explain why President Donald Trump wasn't briefed on intelligence reports concerning bounties being paid by Russia to the Taliban...

Per CNN:

Senior US officials say hundreds of phone calls between Trump and foreign leaders revealed him to be a danger to national security.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
I realize that some of you wont trust the source, but this may explain why President Donald Trump wasn't briefed on intelligence reports concerning bounties being paid by Russia to the Taliban...

Per CNN:

Senior US officials say hundreds of phone calls between Trump and foreign leaders revealed him to be a danger to national security.
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It’s basically impossible to believe he wasn’t briefed.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
I realize that some of you wont trust the source, but this may explain why President Donald Trump wasn't briefed on intelligence reports concerning bounties being paid by Russia to the Taliban...

Per CNN:

Senior US officials say hundreds of phone calls between Trump and foreign leaders revealed him to be a danger to national security.
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Yep. Solid reporting and sourcing.

You're saying that the President is such a threat to national security that the intelligence agencies just say "F3ck it", we wont tell anyone" and let Americans die. Think about that for a minute...maybe longer depending on how hard it is for you to digest that CNN drivel.
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
Not if you know how the intelligence business operates..so I'm not shocked that so many democrats don't understand..
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That's a crock.

"It strains credulity that the President wasn't briefed by either the Secretary of Defense, or the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as to bounties being paid by Russian forces to a terrorist network we have been fighting against for 19 years." - Colin Powell, former Secretary of State and a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaking to CNN

... but I guess that you would know more than Powell, wouldn't you?
 
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As reported today, did it occur to our VN leftists that an alleged Russian bounty on U.S. troops might be an unverified rumor?

Evidently not.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
It's actually worse if he wasn't briefed. None of the reasons for why Trump wouldn't have been briefed, make him look good.
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So the NSC knew about the intelligence and refused to brief him. That’s even worse. That means they set on this intelligence from March until last Saturday.
 
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NCFisher said:
As reported today, did it occur to our VN leftists that an alleged Russian bounty on U.S. troops might be an unverified rumor?

Evidently not.
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Whether or not it actually happened, could be another issue, but that is not what these reports concern. The three relevant questions are: (1) Have U.S. officials collected intelligence that Russian operatives were offering bounties to members of the Taliban to kill members of coalition forces? And if so, (2) was this intelligence passed on to the President? (3) And if not, why?
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
Whether or not it actually happened, could be another issue, but that is not what these reports concern. The three relevant questions are: (1) Have U.S. officials collected intelligence that Russian operatives were offering bounties to members of the Taliban to kill members of coalition forces? And if so, (2) was this intelligence passed on to the President? (3) And if not, why?
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Mick said:
Why would you think it's just rumors? Russia has been supplying the Taliban with weapons for years; but no way in hell they're giving them money, right?
Is Russia arming the Afghan Taliban?
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That’s why i don’t get all the outrage. This should not be surprising to people if youve paid attention since just about most of us have been alive.
 
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Mick said:
Why would you think it's just rumors? Russia has been supplying the Taliban with weapons for years; but no way in hell they're giving them money, right?
Is Russia arming the Afghan Taliban?
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It will be impossible to ever prove that any U.S. service members were killed as a direct result of a bounty being paid by Russia. How would you prove such a thing? The really damning thing here is that Trump didn't know about this intel after 3 months. On some level, this has to be embarrassing for the administration.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
That’s why i don’t get all the outrage. This should not be surprising to people if youve paid attention since just about most of us have been alive.
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The surprising thing is why the Administration kept it from congress and the public for so long. I take that back, it's not at all surprising. It would've made Trump look weak against Russian Aggression's. It's also telling why there hasn't been a response.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
That’s why i don’t get all the outrage. This should not be surprising to people if youve paid attention since just about most of us have been alive.
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Actually paying bounties to specifically kill U.S. service members seems like an escalation of hostilities to me. I will defer on this to our resident experts, however.
 
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“Trump is not known to fully or regularly read the President's Daily Brief, something that is well-known within the White House.”
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
Actually paying bounties to specifically kill U.S. service members seems like an escalation of hostilities to me. I will defer on this to our resident experts, however.
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As opposed to supplying Stingers and funneling weapons through Pakistan? Yes that was 35+ years ago, but their mindset is not much different on their end.
 
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