Posted on 07/22/2014 2:32:53 PM PDT by kristinn
Senior U.S. intelligence officials said Tuesday that Russia was responsible for "creating the conditions" that led to the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, but they offered no evidence of direct Russian government involvement.
The intelligence officials were cautious in their assessment, noting that while the Russians have been arming separatists in eastern Ukraine, the U.S. had no direct evidence that the missile used to shoot down the passenger jet came from Russia.
The officials briefed reporters Tuesday under ground rules that their names not be used in discussing intelligence related to last week's air disaster, which killed 298 people.
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Some get confused. Nobody is saying that the rebels didn’t do it. They are saying they can find no link that Russia was behind it.
I guess Russian rebels, with Russian equipment, answering to Moscow is “not a link”??
BS. 0bama is covering for Putin on this one.
Gee wonder if Obama will learn about this on the news...........since he almost down right accused Russia of being involved
USA created the conditions going on in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, Gaza, Egypt and Libya. So what does the UN/World do about that? It’s a wonder the world doesn’t impose sanctions on the US
Might take an Obama speech to clear this one up,(groan).
“Let me be clear...”
“Created the conditions...”
“Choices to make...”
There will be costs...”
“International community....”
Obama takes 4 positions on every issue. He is a 100 % political animal.
There is no daylight between Mr. Rhode’s comments and those of the intelligence officials. /sarc
> said Tuesday that Russia was responsible for “creating the conditions” that led to the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17... noting that while the Russians have been arming separatists in eastern Ukraine, the U.S. had no direct evidence that the missile used to shoot down the passenger jet came from Russia.
If the Zero-in-Chief didn’t get anything from the mass-murderer Putin for that whopping lie, impeachment should be the least of his worries.
Well, that isn’t going to make a bunch of people happy (Especially at CNN).
The Russians made another request today for the US Launch Satelite info, the spy satellite tapes of the time, and the Radar tapes that Kiev has impounded.
The conflicting info is fueling all kinds of theories.
When the Korean airliner was shot down by the Soviets, the USA released intelligence information to prove it.
But that divulged sources and methods.
And they were able to figure out we got the information from Japan, changed codes, etc... It was estimated that the release dropped our future intelligence gathering by 2/3
So learning from history there is reason to be careful about exactly what is released
Well, that must be that then. Thank you anonymous senior U.S. intelligence officials!
Strangely enough, there is no mention of the air traffic control records that could share some light on to who was responsible........
Perhaps some "low level employees" who had just seen a hurtful video?
Ordinarily I would agree to some extent...but this administration does everything with the idea of protecting Obama...which includes information ...and I’m not convinced his hand is free from responsibility.
Would be best to find out also why the plane “disappeared” off radar.....with better answers then what’s been said to date.
Air Force general: U.S. isn't bluffing.
So we have a strong hand, we are not bluffing, but we are gonna have to fold.
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