Posted on 06/28/2020 4:13:28 PM PDT by Starman417
The DNC Times, formerly known as the NY Times, reported an incendiary story that suggested the Trump administration was briefed on Russia offering bounties to the Taliban for killing Americans. It was flatly denied
“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,” press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said.The current DNI denies itThe statement did not confirm that the intelligence existed, in keeping with ordinary practice, she said, but was a comment on “the inaccuracy of The New York Times story erroneously suggesting that President Trump was briefed on this matter.”
The report claimed that the president and the National Security Council were informed of the covert operations in March, but had taken no action in response.
Statement by DNI Ratcliffe: "I have confirmed that neither the President nor the Vice President were ever briefed on any intelligence alleged by the New York Times in its reporting yesterday." (1/2)
— Office of the DNI (@ODNIgov) June 28, 2020
The former Acting DNI also denied it
I never heard this. And it’s disgusting how you continue to politicize intelligence. You clearly don’t understand how raw intel gets verified. Leaks of partial information to reporters from anonymous sources is dangerous because people like you manipulate it for political gain. https://t.co/403X9AVGAC
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) June 27, 2020
The story may not even be accurate. I am not buying any more of this crap until someone actually puts his or her name to it. But that got me thinking. I know of someone else who in essence paid Iran to murder Americans.
Early this year, on the orders of President Donald Trump, Qassem Soleimani met his demise. Soleimani was personally responsible for the deaths of more than 500 Americans:
“Soleimani is the guy that sent the copper-tipped IEDs into Iraq,” said Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, referring to powerful improvised explosive devices, which Marine Corps Commandant General Joseph Dunford testified last week were responsible for the deaths of 500 soldiers and Marines.Soleimani supplied the Explosively Formed Penetrators, which were used to kill at least 603 Americans, to Iraq. In 2007 Soleimani said that he "was the sole decision-maker on Iranian activities in Iraq."
Got that?
For these murders, Barack Obama rewarded Iran with $1.7 billion in cash, and freed up $8 billion in assets. Additionally, obama gave Iran everything it wanted in the JCPOA agreement.
Not only did obama reward Iran for these murders, he gave Soleimani sanctions relief
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Also a good time to recall that Obama is not a natural born citizen and was never eligible to be President and both parties assisted in his usurpation.
And letting them get away with capturing our unarmed sailors in international waters and did nothing about it.
It still makes my blood boil how Bush and then Obama did NOTHING against Iran for what they did in Iraq. There are thousands of US casualties from roadside bombs, EFP charges, and other attacks that were directly funded and supported by Iran. Thousands.
In fact, after we deposed Saddam, we would have been better served just turning east and heading all the way to Tehran. That is my .02. Yes, I served. Yes, I would put my uniform on again if asked. Iran was the real threat to the US then and it remains so now. They have told us for decades that they will kill us and we do not listen.
The Persian people are great but the revolutionary council should be taken out. I am not a “warmonger”, but this is the one war I could support 100%.
He was a British subject.
Democrats now will always have that in their pocket as a precedent so they can run an illegal alien candidate at sometime in the future. I hope I’m not alive to see them play that card in a Presidential race. Thanks to modern stupidity, the illegal might win.
Some of that cash probably made its way back to him as payola and paid for his new house.
It’s too late to recall Bronc0 Bama...
We can make sure that mistake is never repeated.
Don’t forget FDR putting Japanese in internment camps a la “He’s going to put you back in chains!”
Hey MSM, how quickly you forget! And then Obama rewarded them with billions and billions of dollars for a job well done.
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