New NYT :U.S. spies, commandos in Afghanistan alerted superiors as early as Jan. to a Russian plot

[sunonmars]

Link to tweet

Two officials said the information about the bounty hunting was "well-known" among the intel community in Afghanistan, including the CIA's chief of station and other top officials there, like the military commandos hunting the Taliban. The info was distributed in intel reports.





This is not going to go away. Every few hours, more and more is coming out.

[Lock him up.]

1. LOCK HIM UP!

LOCK HIM UP!
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LOCK HIM UP!

[soothsayer]

2. He sure ignored a lot of important stuff in that same time period

[Iliyah]

3. Gawd dammit . .

[C_U_L8R]

4. Not only is it his job to know about this

It's his job to do something about it.
Trump fails the competency test all around.
And it's worse than we know or can imagine.

[dalton99a]

5. Trump knew.

[uponit7771]

7. 👍

[Stuart G]

10. Yes, Trump knew..& he ignored it.

[Another Jackalope]

40. That would make a nice succinct bumper sticker.

[oasis]

6. Trump favors Putin over OUR military.

He's got to go before he does more harm. Vote Nov. 3.

[erronis]

9. Well, when he needs to flee the US, who does he want to protect him?

Of course he and his family will be worthless to putin at that point. Unless his demise can be televised.

[leftieNanner]

15. He should be careful

When giving his pal Vladimir a tour of that penthouse on top of Trump Tower Moscow. A guy could fall out of a window or something.

Putin will have no use for him once he is out of the White House. He will have to look for another country without extradition.

There are several nice "shithole" ones available in Africa.

[erronis]

17. Ah, yes. That 66th floor of that virtual skyscraper. Long fall. Big splat.

[Miguelito Loveless]

8. Trump denied it

They believe it. That settles it.

And as Pelosi has made it crystal clear there will be no further impeachments, all our chips are on the election will the consequences now being a dictatorship or civil war.

[KS Toronado]

11. I'am concerned the civil war TRE45ON wants is R's vs D's and that's wrong on so many levels.

[Miguelito Loveless]

19. It is fascists against everyone else

The GOP is a fascist party.

[wnylib]

27. If Trump is removed over this,

the situation would be very complicated, to say the least.

Pence would have to go, too, since there is no way he did not know. Cabinet and most of the WH staff are collaborators with Trump. The new president would need whole new staff and cabinet, and then a newly elected president would start all over again in a few months. Actual removal of Trump and Pence would not happen overnight.

The interim replacement for Trump and Pence would be Pelosi herself, according to the rules of succession. Magas would claim it was a coup and launch a civil war.

Civil war might still come after November 3.

What a mess.

[Miguelito Loveless]

29. Agreed

To me the result is the same either way. The only advantage of acting sooner is to get the nuclear launch codes away from Trump who is itching to use them. Waiting will be will be a world-spanning calamity. I do not believe Putin wishes to deal with the president after Trump.

[wnylib]

33. To be sure, Putin does not want

to deal with Biden and the people Biden will bring with him. Will not want to face the consequences of the wrath of Americans who do not worship him.

So he will go all out to prevent Biden from winning. If that fails, Putin will go all out to prevent Biden from taking office.

I'm afraid we face some terrible battles ahead that might be more physical in the real world than ideological in cyberspace. Not sure of the exact form these would take. Disruption of communications, electrical grid, hacking and freezing of banking systems, etc.

Maybe actual street fighting between political and racial groups.

[Miguelito Loveless]

34. Putin will push Trump to not leave even if defeated

while expending every effort to damage the election and destroy its credibility. He is totally cool with civil war in the U.S. But, if it looks like Biden will win, he would prefer to burn the whole planet down, than face the consequences. So, he will order Trump to use nukes.

[wnylib]

35. Cannot agree with the nukes order.

Putin is evil but not stupid or self destructive.

The US is not the only country with nukes. And Putin is despised and distrusted in nuclear armed nations that would feel it necessary to protect themselves when the US can't or won't.

But Trump might be stupid enough or twisted enough to try to take the nation down with him if he feels too threatened. Even then, I think there are people around Trump who are not suicidal enough to go along with him. Launching nukes is not easy in the US. It's more than just punching in the right codes. Our military brass are onto Trump and would refuse to comply with launching against American targets.

But if Putin did launch against us, they would fight back. Our military power is still much greater than Russia's and Putin knows this.

I don't think nukes will come into the picture.

[Miguelito Loveless]

36. I hope you are right

but Trump is highly unstable and Putin is not going to suffer for his evil. If he thinks he can get Trump to launch on Iran, or Iraq, or even on the US, he will.

[Traildogbob]

12. Just you wait

Pardons for Flynn et al coming soon. Lady G and McConnell are neck deep in Putinism. And here we are at July 4th, a year after GOP traitors spent the weekend with Putie Poo. And trump has the Gall to spend it a Mt Rushmore. As S Schmitt said this AM, trump needs to spend the 4th at Stone Mountain Georgia, his true hero’s and mentors. We have been sold to Russian. The entire GOP approves 100 percent.

[wolfie001]

13. I predict a Pulitzer in the future

As for the Orange Bag of Shit: drip, drip, drip

[Cha]

14. RT! TY, sunonmars!

Link to tweet

[Kid Berwyn]

16. Remember when CIA withdrew Agent in Putin's office?

CIA feared Drumpf would reveal the Agent’s existence to Putin and compromise a vital mission vacuuming all he or she could from Putin’s literal desktop.

https://www.vox.com/2019/9/9/20856915/cnn-trump-russia-spy-putin-cia

[Karadeniz]

18. Resignation on the horizon? I don't think the GOP would want pence to head the ticket. He's

Tainted by association. Would Romney run?

[Mr.Bill]

22. Just to rattle Trump and the GOP

pollsters should start polling Biden vs Pence, Biden vs Romney, etc.

[padah513]

32. No. Pence is not tainted by association

He's tainted by collusion. Since he claims to be a practicing Christian, (claims to be; a true Christian would never yoke himself to Trump and his madness) I would ask him what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and in the process lose his soul? Let's see how many knots he twists himself into this week trying to explain away this one like he did the question about wearing masks. Either you and Trump were in the loop, and as the Commander in Chief and his second in command you obtained the briefing, or you weren't in the loop. If the latter is the case, then who the hell is running the county? Meadows? Oh, that's right he wasn't the COS at the time. Ratcliffe? No, he wasn't the DNI at the time either. Then who? Putin?

[ancianita]

20. It's great when the NSA gets its licks in through the NYT.

Keep it coming!

[cstanleytech]

21. The problem isn't that he knew though the problem is that he did....nothing. Not one thing.

[zorbasd]

23. Even worse!

bunkerboi, knew it, and tried to prevent it from coming out, so now we have plausible deniability from this traitorous regime.
Basic SOP.

[Stuart G]

24. Kick again for visability...

[spanone]

25. trump is incapable of being president

[Stuart G]

26. Trump is incapable of caring about anyone but himself too.

[DallasNE]

28. So It Was Even Funded By

Corrupt money (US dollars). Of course.

[Joinfortmill]

30. Sickening. Donald Trump needs to resign.

[Nevilledog]

31. He'll say he was too busy handling the looming COVID-19 pandemic.

Wait for it.......

[Blue_true]

37. Yeah.

President Obama had H1N1 smack him in the face one month after taking office. It was a novel virus also. And by the way, he had at that time the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression to deal with, and he had al quida cells actively plotting to harm Americans. President Obama dealt with all that superbly. There is a difference between being led by a leader and being led by a fool.

[Nevilledog]

39. We're not being led at all.

[Blue_true]

41. You are right. It feels like being tied to a truck that a psycho is driving up the wrong way on

the highway.

[whttevrr]

38. Two questions for reporters:

To trump

"Why did you let Putin put a bounty on US Troops?"

To Every trump supporter, senator, congress person, and surrogate

"Why is trump letting Putin put a bounty on US Troops?"