Now, to be sure, from time to time when they do these kind of raids, you find weapons and you find other kinds of things. In fact, just a few weeks ago —The problem is many of the things that we talk about are about Putin.— he invited Russia to join the G8 conference in Washington —Then I say have him in the room. And if he was there, it would be much easier to solve.So as this information breaks, it breaks against a backdrop of the president continuing to enjoy, in his view, very warm relations with Vladimir Putin in Moscow.And how does the White House explain this? So this set off a lot of questions.And as they conduct other raids, the commandos, C.I.A., other authorities in Afghanistan, they seize the cell phones of different fighters — Taliban fighters — and they start exploiting that to see if there’s any clues in the cell phones that might lead them back to the source of this money. I’m asking that my entire committee be briefed by the intel agencies and —Democrats and Republicans both demand briefings from the president’s top advisers on what the intelligence report says.But is this another situation where the president either was told and just rejects it —— or his people are too scared to tell him because it contradicts this narrative of Vladimir Putin being his buddy?What his aides knew and when they knew it. President Trump is not known to read it very often, very much. Dark gray puffs burst all around. There’s no good answer for the White House in this. They found some $500,000 in American money inside this safehouse. McGrath will now face Republican Senator Mitch McConnell in the fall. On the other hand, those which miss are quite obvious because they leave concentric waves to ripple out from the point of contact, and I saw two of these below. Antiaircraft fire had become greatly intensified, but in my continued observations I saw no enemy fighter planes. How were they protecting their soldiers, first of all, in Afghanistan? In this essay he gives an overview of the U. S. Army Vietnam Combat Art Program and takes the reader with him into the fields of Vietnam. So often we’ve seen the past about some of the president’s utterances and judgments and tweets which have kind of fallen into partisan camps, and people can say what he really meant or not. He never had a briefing from the C.I.A. We began our run and met with fierce antiaircraft concentrations.
See you tomorrow.A New York Times investigation has revealed evidence of a secret Russian operation to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan — and of the failure of the Trump administration to act on that intelligence. Basically electronic intercepts of the financial transactions themselves from this Russian military intelligence unit, down to the Afghans on the ground who are the intermediaries, who are basically managing this program for them there. They were patrolling on a normal day when a large car bomb basically blew up. There’s no evidence that we were behind this.But Eric, even so, even with a middleman cutout, as you just called it, I have to imagine that this kind of an operation by Russia is very risky and represents a pretty significant escalation by Russia.Absolutely, Michael. That they’d been paid by a secretive Russian military intelligence unit for the express purpose of killing American, British and other coalition forces in Afghanistan.But these investigators, they were searching around for other proof — how to link all this together because, of course, how do you assess that these Taliban guys weren’t telling lies or some kind of disinformation?And then investigators learned of something else that sealed the deal, that seemed to kind of be the glue that pieced all these disparate parts together. How should the United States government respond to this? This became a very compelling argument that the military C.I.A. In the Battle of the Aleutian Islands (June 1942-August 1943) during World War II (1939-45), U.S. troops fought to remove Japanese garrisons established on a
This is some of the most sensitive intelligence in the American government, both because of the ramifications if it’s true that Russia has put a bounty on American soldiers heads, and the political sensitivity that anything to do with Russia has with this administration and specifically this White House. When I looked back to see what had happened, the radioman said: 'The fuselage is holed and the rudder wire damaged.' Even some money. I presumed that it was battleship
In 1967, Jim Pollock was one of these soldier-artists. Yes, the battleships were there all right, eight of them! The battle at Stalingrad bled the German army dry in Russia and after this defeat, the Germany Army was in full retreat. The soldiers act like a crescent and take the enemy in the middle of the crescent and surround it. When an armor-piercing bomb with a time fuse hits the target, the result is almost unnoticeable from a great altitude. We take the U.S.‘s place and we humiliate Washington and President Trump in the process.And I guess the reason why Russia would turn to a middleman, the Taliban, on this is because it would never want to attack U.S. soldiers on its own in Afghanistan, just the way the U.S. didn’t want to ever attack Russian soldiers directly in the 1980s.That’s right. But perhaps one of most important things that happens is when they seize a couple of very important senior Taliban and Taliban-related figures. I’m going to be briefed at the White House tomorrow. And so for some years, there’s actually some cooperation between Moscow and Washington.Until a few years ago, when President Putin of Russia starts to become disillusioned with the U.S. plan in Afghanistan, doesn’t believe it’s going to work, and begins — behind the backs of the U.S. — to support the Taliban. You hire basically cutouts to do your dirty work, and it’s very hard for the other side to prove that you’re responsible. I mean, what would these guys be doing with $500,000? And, in effect, there are dissenting opinions from some in the intelligence community with regards to the veracity of what’s being reported.The White House press secretary is saying that the reason he wasn’t briefed was because there was no consensus among the intelligence agencies on what to brief him about.We need to get to the bottom of these reports. They’re the ones setting these killings in motion if they’ve happened. That’s something very, very troubling indeed, if true.Dr.