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Intel just reported to me that they did not find this info credible, and therefore did not report it to me or @VP. Possibly another fabricated Russia Hoax, maybe by the Fake News @nytimesbooks, wanting to make Republicans look bad!!!
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Imperative Congress get to the bottom of recent media reports that Russian GRU units in Afghanistan have offered to pay the Taliban to kill American soldiers with the goal of pushing America out of the region. click here...
For those of us distrustful of the Times with good reason on such neuralgic issues, the bounty story had already fallen of its own weight. As Scott Ritter pointed out yesterday:
"Perhaps the biggest clue concerning the fragility of the New York Times' report is contained in the one sentence it provides about sourcing -- "The intelligence assessment is said to be based at least in part on interrogations of captured Afghan militants and criminals." That sentence contains almost everything one needs to know about the intelligence in question, including the fact that the source of the information is most likely the Afghan government as reported through CIA channels. ..."
And who can forget how "successful" interrogators can be in getting desired answers.
Russia & Taliban React

Attendees at the Taliban-U.S. peace signing ceremony in Doha, Qatar, on Feb. 29, 2020.
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