The New York Times followed-up on its earlier reporting last week on following the money, Afghan Contractor Handed Out Russian Cash to Kill Americans, Officials Say (excerpt): Rahmatullah Azizi stands as a central piece of a puzzle rocking Washington, named in American intelligence reports and confirmed by Afghan officials as a key middleman who for … Read more
Putin’s Puppet this morning was tweeting Russian propaganda that “Bounty Gate” is “fake news” and a “hoax.” Such a loyal Russian asset and a traitor to America. The New York Times reports on what the Intelligence Community is actually saying about the Russians paying a bounty on the heads of American soldiers in Afghanistan. Suspicions of … Read more
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Carl Bernstein has a blockbuster report for CNN, From pandering to Putin to abusing allies and ignoring his own advisers, Trump’s phone calls alarm US officials (excerpt): In hundreds of highly classified phone calls with foreign heads of state, President Donald Trump was so consistently unprepared for discussion of serious issues, … Read more
With the latest revelations we are left with only two options: (1) Donald Trump is an asset of Russian intelligence, or (2) he is guilty of dereliction of duty as commander-in-chief to defend the safety and security of the United States. I suppose a third option may be that both apply, they are not mutually exclusive. … Read more
Raw Story gets to the heart of the scandal: It seems the president has uncovered where the intelligence faltered in the reporting of a Russian bounty on American soldiers. Trump tweeted late Sunday that “Intel” never told him about the story because they didn’t find it “credible” enough to tell him. [However] intelligence officials believed … Read more