Posted on 06/28/2020 6:21:56 PM PDT by bitt
Members of the American intelligence community have concluded that members of the Russian intelligence unit offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants if they successfully killed members of the American military, the New York Times reported. The problem, however, is that almost everyone involved in this story says it isn't true. The White House, Russia and even the Taliban have said the Times' story is false.
According to the anonymous source that spoke to the Times, the Russians intending "to destabilize the West or take revenge on turncoats, had covertly offered rewards for successful attacks last year."
The source claimed that President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence were briefed on the situation and the National Security Council discussed it back in March.
Dmitry Peskov, the Press Secretary for Russian President Vladimir Putin, said the country had no diplomatic complaints on record.
“If someone makes them, we’ll respond,” Peskov told the Times.
In the Times' piece, the Taliban's spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said the terrorist organization had no "such relations with any intelligence agency." He labeled the accusation as an attempt to "defame" the group.
“These kinds of deals with the Russian intelligence agency are baseless — our target killings and assassinations were ongoing in years before, and we did it on our own resources,” Mujahid explained. “That changed after our deal with the Americans, and their lives are secure and we don’t attack them.”
The most telling part of the article included absolutely zero details:
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
So are Pelosi and Cheney going to apologize?
And what idiot believes anything on the NYT anymore?
The amount of backtracking on all sides makes me think it might have happened during Obama’s watch...
and neither the Taliban nor the Russians want to be labeled “racist”.
The amount of backtracking on all sides makes me think it might have happened during Obama’s watch...
and neither the Taliban nor the Russians want to be labeled “racist”.
Everyone needs to Tweet back to Liz:
“Delete Your Account”
LOL, just imagining if stuff like that was posted 15 years ago. We would have been banned so fast, LOL!
Shocked..that the NYT would print a story that isn't true.... shocked I tell you😳.
If the narrative were true, and Trump had knowledge of this, it seems more likely that he would say, “Lets kill these MFers doing this”. But now that would not be possible because everything is f-ing blown because Orange Man Bad. There is no reason things are kept secret I guesss that would override the principle of OMB.
NEW YORK TIMES....enough said... MOVE ON...
THEY ARE WASTED NEWSPRINT..
Isn’t it horrible?
Trump is the only person I WANT to vote for. And one local councilman.
I’m sick of holding my nose while voting.
I won’t say I’m not gonna vote R after Trump.
I’m just saying I want the real deal or nothing.
And thanks again for the bruce springsteen info. That piece of garbage.
I never knew and now i’m sick to my stomach for all the times i’ve played his songs.
Insightful! I believe you are right.
This has been reported in most news outlets. And I’m sorry but the idea that people on this forum are taking the word of Vladimir Putin and the Taliban at face value is shocking. Seriously. WTF is going on around here? Did someone spike the water at FR with acid?
i suspect we ain’t seen nothing yet from the leftist fake stream enemedia and the traitorous GOPe/RINO scum and the Dems ... they must be in total panic mode to be pulling out all the stops with this kind of completely fabricated insanity ...
She’s got to go.
It doesn’t matter that the story was fake.
It allowed the fake media to accuse President Trump of not knowing what is going on.
Now on to the next fake story
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Yep it never ends.
It now points out that Trump is getting from the Democrats AND the Republicans.
Could be that Trump planted the story to find leakers.
Trump is alone in Washington.
Ah, are you seriously saying the NYTimes has more credibility than either Putin or the Taliban? I am shocked that you are shocked!
And this is different from the last four years how?
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