Posted on 06/30/2020 11:51:27 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) told reporters Tuesday that bombshell media reports that Russia’s military intelligence paid bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill U.S. troops is “absolutely inaccurate,” making the claim after she and other Republicans were briefed at the White House.
“I think that reporting was absolutely inaccurate. I had a briefing this morning and I know that the evidence is not corroborated,” she said, emphasizing that she was putting “evidence” in air quotes.
“We take threats seriously. At the tactical level, obviously making sure our positions are hardened and we’re watching out for adversaries,” she added.
Ernst was one of about a half dozen Republican senators who were briefed by Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and other members of the intelligence community Tuesday morning at the White House, according to persons familiar with the meeting.
She described the briefing as “very informative” and reiterated “the reporting in that article was very inaccurate,” apparently referring to The New York Times article that broke news of the bounties on Friday.
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“””””“the reporting in that article was very inaccurate,””””
It is called a LIE, Jim.
Sounds like the story was based on a leak by another Vindman type.
Please tell this to Liz Cheney, who ran with the New York Times story and demanded “answers” from “the White House”
Liz Cheney always blames Trump first and always sided with the New York Times first
Anyone have her office phone number?
Well since that didn’t work, the Dem’s now have to come up with something different for the 0ctober surprise.
Please tell this to Liz Cheney, who ran with the New York Times story and demanded “answers” from “the White House”
Liz Cheney always blames Trump first and always sided with the New York Times first
Anyone have her office phone number?
“”””Liz Cheney always blames Trump first and always sided with the New York Times first
Anyone have her office phone number?””””””””””””””””
1-800-WAR-MONGER
Liz Cheney is CLASSLESS!
If you create a ‘bombshell’ story, then shop it around the intel agencies with slightly different ‘facts’ in different versions, you can soon find the ‘leak’ you were after.................
If there was a bounty it must have been cheap because a total of 2 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan this year. Given the glee they get killing infidels they must have felt insulted and stayed home. Chicago is more dangerous by far!
Does not matter. The Dims will keep running with the story, repeating the unverified intel versions of it as “truth” all the up to election day.
It never mattered that the media’s version of the Trayvon Martin vs George Zimmerman story has been disproved in more than one court case, Trayvon Martin is still a martyr, and in the media always will be.
It’s not just a lie, it’s a stupid lie. Listen to all the Trump haters constantly “if this” and “if that”. They don’t know.
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Afghanistan is a gossip festival. So many times we strike the Taliban and its always a “wedding party”.
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The Taliban hate the Russians worse than they hate us. Many Taliban don’t want us to go away completely because it will bankrupt them and drive off the NGOs that pay them for protection.
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If this intel has any validity, outing it, just drives all the denials and eliminates what might be valuable intel sources.
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Reporting any of this can only be done by America haters.
The democrats/MSM could not care less about accuracy. What they are seeking is an endless flood of daily negativity smearing Trump until election day.
Let me direct my ire at the REPUBLICAN senators who IMMEDIATELY gave the media damaging quotes, when they knew NOTHING.
I don’t want to hear that the Russkies did something bad, that is what Russkies do.
EVERY Republican Senator wants Trump to lose.
“””EVERY Republican Senator wants Trump to lose.””””
They want to go back to being cucks. They are good at it.
A thought occurs to me. All the democrat schemes have one common thread, they accuse you of what THEY actually do.
Trump and Russian prostitutes peeing all over the place to humiliate someone? This is from the fevered mind of a democrat homo in Hillary’s campaign. Say Robby Mook for example. A normal man would never even think of such a thing.
So... who exactly would think up the idea of PAYING CASH to Afghans to kill the enemy? Broke Russia? OR does that sound like something invented in the mind of someone who has just spent 19 years PAYING AFGHANS to do what they want? The US INTEL COMMUNITY.
Also, in the exceedingly unlikely event that some goat humper actually DID tell our intel guys this story, did it ever occur to our “intelligence” guys that the most famous middlemen in human history might have been negotiating, trying to hike the price on what the USA pays them to NOT shoot at our guys? “Yes, the Russians pay us much more to shoot at your men than you pay us NOT to...”.
It’s obvious...
Morons. We are a nation run by blithering idiot morons.
Because they are voted in by blithering idiot morons.
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