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Putin puts bounty on US soldiers in Afghanistan. Our response: no big deal.

Are those the new Kremlin talking points, Komrade?

#WeakSauce
This is your comeback...dismissing facts. Fat Freddy Flintstone Pompeo loves the job you're doing.

Ironic that you call me Comrade when I am championing smaller government all the time while you gush all over bigger governments. When you can't defend your position, you always resort to this. A sure sign you've been spanked. Next time, use one of these:

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Translation: Putin has not yet updated the Troll Farm script for this yet.
Translation= I was being kind. That's a freaking dumb ass response. It's like shopping at Target. Here, you killed 1 soldier. Take your $50 and "would you like a receipt?"
 
I'm surprised any sane American would error on the side of Putin being innocent.

Bill O'Reilly put it best: "Putin's a killer."
Oh FFS! He was a KGB analyst. Since he took office in 2000, Washington killed exponentially more and it ain't even close. Hell...we killed more in Yemen than they have elsewhere.
 
Translation= I was being kind. That's a freaking dumb ass response. It's like shopping at Target. Here, you killed 1 soldier. Take your $50 and "would you like a receipt?"

Yes.....solitary Taliban electrician, comes into millions out of the blue. Just "happens" to broker hits on US servicemen....

All very simple and believable.
 
Yeah. He couldn't have had him killed when he was in a Russian prison serving time.

Again, Putin ordered a hit in a sovereign country, using a poison that killed other people.
He should be considered a war criminal and not allowed travel anywhere in the West w/o being arrested and tried for it.
 
After examining his record, New York Times readers should be skeptical of anything David Sanger writes, including his latest artful works of deception.

By Ray McGovern
Special to Consortium News

The New York Times is pulling out all the stops in promoting its dubious story on Russia offering bounty for dead U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.

Wednesday’s installment, a “news analysis” by Times veteran writers David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt, treats the allegations that Russia paid Taliban or Taliban-related terrorists to kill U.S. troops as flat fact:

“Russia’s complicity in the bounty plot came into sharper focus on Tuesday as the The New York Times reported that American officials intercepted electronic data showing large financial transfers from a bank account controlled by Russia’s military intelligence agency to a Taliban-linked account.”

This is presented as “bolstering other evidence of the plot, including detainee interrogations.” The take from the Afghan-run interrogations is, ipso facto, highly dubious; and we need to know a lot more about the alleged new “electronic data.”



Sanger and Schmitt put the “bounty” story atop a “list of Russian aggressions in recent weeks rival[ing] some of the worst days of the Cold War.” They hold up to ridicule White House statements that the president wants to have only “verified” intelligence, claiming that this prompts “derision from officials who have spent years working on the daily brief and say it is most valuable when filled with dissenting interpretations and alternative explanations.”

Oh, yeah?

The President’s Daily Brief (PDB)

Granted, such dissent might have been helpful to President George W. Bush, rather than having PDB briefers like Michael Morell (later to become deputy CIA director) parroting the line of then-Director George Tenet and Vice President Dick Cheney that there were tons of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But what is wrong with preferring “verified” intelligence rather than a menu of options attempting to explain unverified reporting reeking of political agendas? (Morell later went on TV to call for the covert murder of Russians and Iranians in Syria.)

I helped prepare The President’s Daily Brief for Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Reagan, and personally conducted the one-on-one morning briefings in the Oval Office from 1981 to 1985. In those days we did our best to corroborate reporting — especially on highly sensitive issues — and did not try to cover our derrieres by alerting the president and his top aides to highly dubious reporting, however sexy.

Later, Cheney’s fascination/fixation with the yarn about “yellowcake uranium” going to Iraq from Niger did not pass the smell test, for example, something that it took the International Atomic Energy Agency only a day or two of investigation to demolish.

‘Not Authentic’

Seymour Hersh wrote in the March 24, 2003 New Yorker, just days after the attack on Iraq:

“On March 7th, Mohamed ElBaradei, the Director-General of the IAEA in Vienna, told the UN Security Council that the documents involving the Niger-Iraq uranium sale were fakes. ‘The I.A.E.A. has concluded, with the concurrence of outside experts, that these documents . . . are in fact not authentic,’ ElBaradei said.

One senior I.A.E.A. official went further. He told [Hersh], ‘These documents are so bad that I cannot imagine that they came from a serious intelligence agency. It depresses me, given the low quality of the documents, that it was not stopped. At the level it reached, I would have expected more checking.'”

Sources



Intelligence analysts must pay close attention, of course, to provenance. What is this or that source’s record for accuracy, for reliability. What kind of trough might this or that source be feeding from; and what agenda might she or he have? Discriminating readers of the corporate media — and especially the Times — should do the same with respect to journalists. When they see the byline of David Sanger they need to examine his record.

Those who look back to before the U.S./UK attack on Iraq will discover that Sanger was heavily promoting the existence of WMD in Iraq as a certainty. In a July 29, 2002 article co-written with Thom Shanker, for example, Iraq’s (non-existent) “weapons of mass destruction” appear no fewer than seven times as flat fact.

This Sanger/Shanker article, apparently fed by intelligence sources, came just nine days after the head of British intelligence, Sir Richard Dearlove, was briefed by CIA chief Tenet at CIA headquarters in Langley, VA. Three days later, on July 23, Dearlove told then Prime Minister Tony Blair that the coming attack on Iraq was a done deal.

We did not know this until May 2005 when The Times of London was given the text of what became known as the Downing Street Memo — the minutes of the briefing that Dearlove gave Blair on July 23, 2002. No one has disputed its authenticity. Here’s an excerpt:

“C [[Sir Richard Dearlove, head of MI6]] reported on his recent talks in Washington [[with George Tenet, CIA director at CIA headquarters on July 20, three days earlier]].

… Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD.

But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.”

More instructive still, in May 2005, when first-hand documentary evidence from the now-famous “Downing Street Memorandum” showed that President George W. Bush had decided by early summer 2002 to attack Iraq, The New York Times ignored it for six weeks until David Sanger rose to the occasion with a tortured report claiming just the opposite.

The title given his article of June 13 2005 was “Prewar British Memo Says War Decision Wasn’t Made.”

Against this peculiar reporting record, I was not inclined to take at face value Sanger’s Jan. 6, 2017 report “Putin Ordered ‘Influence Campaign’ Aimed at U.S. Election, Report Says.” Or the report he authored, with Michael Shear the following day, “Putin Led a Complex Cyberattack Scheme to Aid Trump, Report Finds.”

And Therein Lies the Rub

… or the rubbish, as the British might say. The fable of the Russian hack has now gone the way of Russia-Trump collusion. (See, for example: “Mueller’s Forensic-free Findings.”

When will New York Times readers catch on to David Sanger’s story telling? Sadly, there are plenty of Pulitzer presstitutes — particularly on Russiagate, but Sanger is the archdeacon of them all — by far the most accomplished at the art.
 
Again, Putin ordered a hit in a sovereign country, using a poison that killed other people.
He should be considered a war criminal and not allowed travel anywhere in the West w/o being arrested and tried for it.
My God, you swallow a lot of propaganda. That whole shebang was laughable. Run by the Keystone Cops, no doubt. And right next door to Porton Down. LOL
 
Yes.....solitary Taliban electrician, comes into millions out of the blue. Just "happens" to broker hits on US servicemen....

All very simple and believable.
Electric in Afghanistan? Who knew? Running water and toilets too? You got me in

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Right. Laura effing Walker. let's take a 30 minute break while someone Wiki's her. She boasts on her Twitter feed that she is Scottish, Sicilian, Texan and Independent. OK, She's an impeccable source with Insider credentials. ROFLMAO.

You make no sense.

The story is written by By Mujib Mashal, Eric Schmitt, Najim Rahim and Rukmini Callimachi.

"Laura effing Walker" has nothing to do with it, you little Russkie Troll.
 
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You make no sense.

The story is written by By Mujib Mashal, Eric Schmitt, Najim Rahim and Rukmini Callimachi.

"Laura effing Walker" has nothing to do with it, you little Russkie Troll.
Because you keep posting her like she's someone who should be followed. No need to keep posting the fake news. It's been discredited already, you freaking neoliberal wamonger. Dare I repeat myself.

Like Afghanis need a bounty to shoot Americans after we have occupied and raped their women and resources for 19 years. FFS! They would do it gratis.
 
Because you keep posting her like she's someone who should be followed.

LOLWUT?

I posted a news article that explains the Russian payments to a Taliban intermediary.

Newsflash: The media doesn't work in America like it works in Russia, Komrade.
 
LOLWUT?

I posted a news article that explains the Russian payments to a Taliban intermediary.

Newsflash: The media doesn't work in America like it works in Russia, Komrade.
Newsflash: CIA is a disinformation center. It's kind of what they do. Sheep get slaughtered, Hoss. If your view is in the majority, you're most like wrong.
 
You keep regurgitating this, but it has nothing to do with the information posted.

Putin and the FSB are much, much worse.
#Novichok
The Times goes to the State Dept. for approval before going to press.

Novichok was BS. But, you don't regurgitate.
 
Hard to really tell if you're actually a paid Kremlin troll, or just one of the useful idiots they enjoy exploiting to spread disinformation....
Is the The Atlantic Council slow at feeding you talking points today? Get new material.

Is Afghanistan a threat to us? When did they attack us? Why are we there? Is there a war you won't support?
 
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