Discredited Russian Bounty Story Exposes Media’s Role In Status Quo By Danny Sjursen, ScheerPost.com. September 28, 2020 Discredited Russian Bounty Story Exposes Media’s Role In Status Quo2020-09-282020-09-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/nythl_0-1-e1601303702406.jpg200px200px Above photo: Misleading article in the New York Times. The military says they can’t find evidence to support it, yet the New York Times and others have not repudiated the reports or issued corrections. It is an old journalistic […]
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Afghanistan has released the first 80 of its 400 remaining Taliban prisoners as part of a peace deal with the US, which is contingent on the US also withdrawing all its troops from the country. However, the US “deep state” may be trying to sabotage the deal, Mark Sleboda, a Moscow-based international relations and security analyst, told Sputnik. “We have to remember that the US-installed Afghan […]
Washington is offering $5 million for the arrest of the presiding judge of Venezuela’s Supreme Tribunal of Justice, accusing Maikel Moreno of accepting bribes in criminal cases and of being a “crony” of President Nicolas Maduro. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the bounty on Tuesday, saying that Moreno “used his position of authority for personal gain” and that his designation sends a clear message […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin (second from left) meets military officials, including Igor Kostyukov (far right), the deputy chief of military intelligence, the GRU. The 2018 event in Moscow marked the centenary of the GRU, which has been involved in many major operations in recent years. U.S. intelligence suspects of the GRU of involvement in a reported bounty program in Afghanistan. Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool Photo via AP […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107982/38/1079823840_0:26:3072:1754_1200x675_80_0_0_7fcf3f131ea8c688c5beeee1bd0aa889.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007081079823825-us-military-chief-doubts-intelligence-behind-russian-bounty-allegations—reports/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US Central Command Commander Gen. Kenneth McKenzie is not convinced that American intelligence assessments support allegations that Russia offered bounties to kill US soldiers in Afghanistan, according to media reports. McKenzie told The Associated Press and ABC News on Tuesday that although the reports are worrisome, he did not find a “causative link” between the intelligence on […]
U.S. Marines in Afghanistan’s Helmand province in 2018. The U.S. intelligence community is assessing reports that Russia set up a bounty program to pay the Taliban to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan. President Trump says he was told about the intelligence until after it appeared in the media. Massoud Hossaini/AP hide caption toggle caption Massoud Hossaini/AP U.S. Marines in Afghanistan’s Helmand province in 2018. The U.S. […]
Adam Schiff A couple weeks ago The New York Times published a story claiming that Russia secretly offered bounties to Taliban forces to kill US troops, citing “officials briefed on the matter.” President Trump early Sunday morning dismissed the New York Times report on the GRU-Taliban allegations. “Nobody briefed or told me, VP Pence, or Chief of Staff Mark Meadows about the so-called attacks on our […]
Afghan Taliban fighters and villagers attend a gathering as they celebrate the peace deal signed between US and Taliban in Laghman Province, Alingar district on March 2, 2020. The agreement was signed in Doha, Qatar, by US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad — the chief US negotiator in the talks with the Taliban — and Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar — the Taliban’s chief negotiator. […]
Democrats have asked Congress to consider new sanctions against Moscow over media claims that Russia has been paying Taliban-affiliated militants to kill American and other coalition troops serving in Afghanistan. Russian officials have vocally denied the allegations, and accused those pushing them of trying to further undermine Russia-US ties. US President Donald Trump resumed his attack on what he termed “the discredited @nytimes” on Wednesday morning […]
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he was never briefed on claims published by the New York Times about bounties on US soldiers in Afghanistan given to the Taliban by Russian intelligence agents because US intelligence agencies don’t believe it ever happened. “We never heard about it because intelligence never found it to be of that level, where it would rise to that,” […]
The “Afghanistan bounties” narrative propelled by the US mainstream media has all the earmarks of a hoax, say international observers, explaining who actually stands to benefit from unverified reports allegedly leaked by an anonymous intelligence official. Citing unnamed sources The New York Times last Friday broke the story that Russia was allegedly offering the Taliban* bounties to kill US soldiers in Afghanistan, highlighting President Donald Trump’s […]
Trump on an unannounced visit to Bagram air base in Afghanistan last year. Trump has consistently displayed a cavalier attitude to armed forces’ lives. Photograph: Tom Brenner/Reuters Guardian: Donald Trump likes to suggest he has got the back of US soldiers battling America’s foes around the world. It was a big theme of his 2016 campaign and his West Point speech earlier this month. So great was […]
One of the few remaining areas of broad bipartisan consensus on Capitol Hill has been a tough policy toward Russia— a topic that frequently creates a stark contrast to President Trump, who has maintained personally warm ties to its leader, Vladimir Putin, and has generally followed behind Congress on Russia counter-measures. But the cognitive dissonance between those things proved increasingly difficult to square on Tuesday for […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107976/27/1079762728_0:0:3072:1729_1200x675_80_0_0_6226d52173da480fac94be460e487542.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007011079762808-us-allegedly-has-financial-data-to-support-russia-bounty-claims—reports/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US intelligence community’s claims that Russia offered bounties for US soldiers in Afghanistan is allegedly supported by data obtained showing financial transfers from the GRU to a Taliban-linked account, the New York Times reported citing three officials familiar with the matter. The report on Tuesday said that US analysts concluded based on other intelligence that […]
Last Friday’s New York Times piece citing anonymous intelligence officials on an alleged Russian plot to offer rewards to Taliban-linked militants to kill US and coalition troops in Afghanistan has been criticized and condemned from all sides, with Moscow, the White House and even the Taliban itself dismissing the newspaper’s claims. Senior White House officials have been aware of ‘classified intelligence’ on alleged Russian bounties encouraging […]
Daily Beast: U.S. intelligence officials have reportedly been investigating an April 2019 attack on an American convoy that killed three U.S. Marines to determine whether it was connected to bounties secretly offered to Taliban militants by the Russian government. The Nasty Truth Behind the Russian Ordered ‘Hit’ on American Troops and the Trump Coverup and still, @realDonaldTrump in his full blown ignorance and support of Putin, continues […]
The US Director of National Intelligence said that recent leaks in the media may put US troops at risk and derail the investigation into source-based reports of Moscow allegedly paying the Taliban bounties to kill US troops. “The selective leaking of any classified information disrupts the vital interagency work to collect, assess and mitigate threats and places our forces at risk. It is also, simply put, […]
The New York Times story accusing Russia of offering bounties for killing US troops in Afghanistan relied on unconfirmed intelligence from an ongoing investigation, which is now impossible to finish, a congressman has revealed. “The blood is on their hands,” Rep. Jim Banks (R-Indiana) tweeted on Monday, after attending a briefing with top intelligence officials at the White House. The Times, he said, “used unconfirmed intel […]
The New York Times and the Washington Post should give up their journalistic accolades for selling rumors as scoops, the White House’s Kayleigh McEnany said, pointing at holes in their story about Russian bounties for the Taliban. The secretary has unleashed a scathing rebuke at the media, accusing the Times and the WaPo of peddling scandalous speculations about US President Donald Trump allegedly doing nothing after […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107974/37/1079743766_0:0:3094:1741_1200x675_80_0_0_687c8bc7289b666d79006cfb91cba03f.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202006291079743655-us-intel-admits-that-reports-about-alleged-russian-bounty-intelligence-lack-credibility-trump-says/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump says he has been told by the US intelligence that they did not find the recent reports about alleged Russian bounty intelligence credible. On Friday, The New York Times published an article where it cited unnamed government sources as saying that Trump had been presented with an intelligence report that claimed that […]
The New York Times on Friday published a story claiming that Russia secretly offered bounties to Taliban forces to kill US troops, citing “officials briefed on the matter.” President Trump early Sunday morning dismissed the New York Times report on the GRU-Taliban allegations. “Nobody briefed or told me, VP Pence, or Chief of Staff Mark Meadows about the so-called attacks on our troops in Afghanistan by […]
Authorities in Atlanta have offered a hefty reward and published photos of a woman suspected of setting a Wendy’s restaurant on fire during the protest against the police killing of Rayshard Brooks at the fast-food’s parking lot. “Crime Stoppers Greater Atlanta is offering a $10,000 reward for information on the individuals responsible for starting a fire that led to the destruction of a Wendy’s restaurant at […]
The head of Venezuela’s cryptocurrency initiative, the petro, is wanted by the U.S government on charges of corruption and links to the narcotics trade. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) added Joselit Ramirez Camacho to its Most Wanted List on Monday, accusing him of a number of violations related to international commerce and his alleged involvement in the international drug trafficking scene. Ramirez Camacho is a public […]
Liege Camila Pistore Veras, Rafael Duckur, and Joana Luiza Mendes (left to right) load boxes of produce into a truck at a farm outside of Sao Paulo, Brazil. This produce, and more, will be distributed in favelas, poor urban neighborhoods where residents live in crowded homes and lack basic sanitation. Patrícia Monteiro for NPR hide caption toggle caption Patrícia Monteiro for NPR Liege Camila Pistore Veras, […]