NATO officials say they were briefed

[struggle4progress]

Mitch Prothero 8 hours ago

... Three NATO officials say they had been briefed on intelligence that Russian operatives were secretly offering cash bounties to Taliban-linked militants for US casualties in Afghanistan — as President Donald Trump claimed he was not, and dismissed news reports on the intelligence as a "possibly another fabricated Russia Hoax."

The revelation that US intelligence had briefed the White House on the Taliban bounties had been a closely-held secret for several months, until US officials began briefing UK and other European allies last week.

The intelligence was first reported Friday in The New York Times and has since been widely confirmed ...

https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-bounty-us-soldiers-afghanistan-nato-officials-briefed-trump-denies-2020-6

[spanone]

1. Meanwhile, not a single Democrat in Congress has been briefed.

[rockfordfile]

26. That's odd, you think?

[spanone]

27. that's trump. they briefed republicans today. politics weaponized.

[denem]

2. The White House withheld the information from our NATO partners?

Information about grievous Russian aggression during a NATO mission !!

[Lucinda]

3. KNR

[dameatball]

4. Once intelligence becomes common knowledge among our allies and possibly others, is it really

considered "classified?" It seems to me that any number of sources could have leaked this information, not all of them ours.

[patphil]

5. It's obvious our NATO allies are lying.

They don't love Trump very much.

[mercuryblues]

6. You might want to put up the sarcasm, smilie

[patphil]

17. I felt that it should have been inferred from my statements.

Besides, I didn't see it in the list...didn't realize there was a second page.
So many smiles!

[mercuryblues]

18. I get sarcasm

not everyone does.

[pazzyanne]

28. I had the same reaction.

I almost alerted on this post. The sarcasm emoji clarifies your post and does not leave others trying to decide what you mean.

[erronis]

13. I like your post just fine. Too many emojis lessen the impact. People can think themselves.

[Hortensis]

7. :) NO chance that NATO commanders just learned of this,

even though bounties were only offered for deaths of American soldiers. NATO maintains an ongoing military support mission in Afghanistan. Our troops make up by far most of it, of course, but most or all NATO nations also have troops in it.

"We were briefed [by the Americans] on a potential threat to our troops in Afghanistan from operatives potentially linked to the Russian intelligence services," one NATO military intelligence official told Insider on Monday.

[empedocles]

8. Important insight. More to come.

[Runningdawg]

9. It was up to the appropriate people to take action when they saw Trump would not. They didn't.

22 young Americans were shot down like common criminals with bounties on their heads under Trump's watch. 4 died in Benghazi. When does Trump and the other who failed to act begin their 12 hour sessions of testimony under oath? More importantly now that the world knows- what does Trump and the Pentagon plan to do about it??

[Budi]

10. We have allies around the World (5Eyes). This didn't have to be leaked by US.

UK, had knowledge of it as well.

NATO knew.
Was this around the time Trump seriously began to push the US to drop out of NATO? He actually talked about dropping NATO back in his 2016 campaign.

Request from Putin no doubt.


CT, but it is suspect...

[erronis]

16. So 5-Eyes are not really allies, just share some intelligence. And even allies are not all in synch

with what some country (e.g., US), or some dimwit (e.g., trump) wants.

Allies, frenemies, axes-of-evil, neutrals - they all play their own games with what they hold, what they know.

[Budi]

19. Well, maybe not anymore. We once were allied.

The "Five Eyes" (FVEY) refers to an alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.
These countries are bound by the multilateral UKUSA Agreement for joint cooperation in signals intelligence, military intelligence, and human intelligence.

wiki..

[erronis]

23. My point is that they agreed to cooperate in intelligence. But it was always limited by national

interests - well, actually political interests.

There's no way the US (for example) shared all the intel it had while snooping on Australia, UK, etc. Or them to us.

The Israelis are an interesting side channel with selective info flows.

[warmfeet]

11. The acting commander in chief is actively helping our enemies.

Said acting commander in chief is allowed to remain in office with but a few criticisms. Little to no mention of immediately removing him from office. Got it.

[Takket]

12. so let me see if I have the "two sides" of this correct......

"I was never briefed"

So says
drumpf
Press secretary

"You knew"
So says: the entire rest of the world

who should i believe??????????????????

[SammyWinstonJack]

15. Not McEnemy, that's for sure. One wonders how she sleeps at night.

[dchill]

22. She sleeps in cold storage.

[Takket]

14. i mean.... this is it, right????????

I mean........... EVERYTHING else has just bounced off of him...... up until corona........ and now we find out he was knowingly turning a blind eye to the murder of soldiers........ i mean, these is NO WAY ANYONE could survive this, politically, right??????????

[Budi]

24. K & R

[sinkingfeeling]

20. So NATO is in on this new 'hoax' just like how the rest of the

world is in on the 'fake' pandemic?

[keithbvadu2]

21. 'Not credible', yet the Pentagon took actions to protect against such threats.

'Not credible', yet the Pentagon took actions to protect against such threats.

[Cha]

25. Good to know... the traitors can deny this or

make excuses but the bottom line is.. they let it happen without sounding the alarm.

[tiptonic]

29. Inside Putins circle

Didn't 'Benedict donald', expose one of our assets, who was in Putins inner circle, right after he was 'elected' (ascended to the thrown)?

[UTUSN]

30. K&R