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The recovery of large numbers of U.S. currencies from a Taliban outpost in Afghanistan helped spread to U.S. officials. It is noted that no less than one U.S. trooplaystation death is the result of bonuses.
By Eric Schmitt, Adam Goldguy and Nicholas Fandos
WASHINGTON – U.S. Intelligence Officials And special operations forces in Afghanistan alerted their superiors since January of an alleged conspiracy through Russia to pay bonuses to the Taliban to kill the U.S. troop station. In Afghanistan, according to officials briefed on the subject. They thought no less than a U.S. trooplaystation death. It was the result of bonds, two of the officials said.
Crucial data that led spies and commandos to specialize in bonuses included the recovery of U.S. currencies in a raid on a suspicious Taliban outpost. Interrogations of captured activists and criminals have played a central role in making intelligence nets secure in their assessment that the Russians filed and paid bonds in 2019, another official said.
Based on this information, army and intelligence officers evaluated the patients from the fighting across the United States and other coalitions over the past 18 months to determine whether a large apple of them was a patient of the plot. Four Americans were killed in action in early 2020, however, the Taliban have not attacked U.S. positions since a February agreement to end the long war in Afghanistan.
The most important things were added to the image of the assessment of confidential information, which the New York Times said were stubborn Friday in Trump’s leadership since no less than March, and emerged when the White House faced a complaint Sunday over its obvious failure. to authorize a reaction to Russia.
Mr. Trump defended himself by denying the Times’s report that he had been stripped of the information, presenting a similar white house rebuttal a noon earlier. But top-time logical Democrats in Congress and some Republicans have demanded a reaction to Russia that officials say leadership has not yet authorized.
The president “will have to denounce and manage this immediately, and end Russia’s shadow war,” said Rep. Adam Kinzinger, Illinois Republican and member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on Twitter.
Appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” President Nancy Pelosi said it hadn’t been modified by the intelligence assessment and had asked for a congressional report. He accused Mr. Trump of “ignoring” the allegations against Russia.
“Russia has never recovered from the humiliation it suffered in Afghanistan, and now it is attacking us, our troops,” he said of the Soviet Union’s Bloody War in the 1980s. “It’s completely outrageous. You’d think that once the president found out, he’d know more rather than deny that he knows something.”
C.I.A. spokesmen, the director of national intelligence, and the Pentagon declined to comment on the burning findings. A Homeland Security Council spokesman, John L. Ullyot, said on a Sunday night: “The veratown of the underlying allegations continues to be assessed.”
Trump said Sunday night on Twitter that “Intel just told me that they didn’t consider this wisdom credible and didn’t report it to me or @VP.” A senior leadership official presented a similar explanation, saying that Trump had not been affected because intelligence agencies had not reached a great consensus at the locations.
But another official said there was broad agreement that the assessment of the facts was accurate, with some complexities because other aspects of the facts, adding up the interrogations and knowledge of surveillance, brought differences between the agencies in the degree of acceptance as true to be given to either type.
Aleven, though White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnabig Apple said Saturday that Trump had not been briefed on the intelligence report, a U.S. official. He told the Times that the report was changed to the maximum logical grades of the White House. Another said he included in the president’s daily report, a variety of foreign policy and national security data compiled for Trump to read.
The McEnabig apple did not question the Times’ reports on the lifestyles of intelligence assessment, an inter-company assembly of the National Security Council on the matter beyond March and that of the White House. Several other news agencies also reported in the subsequent evaluation, and the Washington Post first reported Sunday that the bonuses would have ended with the death of no less than one U.S. service member.
Officials briefed on the matter said the assessment was treated as a well-kept secret, however, that the leadership had expanded its reports on the difficulty over the past week, adding shared data on the matter with the British government, whose forces were among those allegedly attacked.
Republicans in Congress demanded more information from the Trump administration about what happened and how the White House planned to respond.
Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, Republican of the 3rd House, said Sunday in an article on Twitter: “If the report on Russian bonuses to US forces is true, the White House will have to explain: 1. Why did the president or vice president report? “Were the facts in the BPA? 2. Who knew and when? 3. What was done in reaction to our forces and hold Putin accountable?”
Several Republicans retwented Ms. Cheney’s message. Rep. Daniel Crenshaw, a Texas Republican and a member of the Navy SEALs, amplified his message through tweeting, “We prefer the answers.”
In response to questions, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the bulk leader, said he had long warned that he was opposed to Russian paintings to undermine U.S. interests in the Middle East and Southwest Asia and noted that he drafted an amendment last year to rebuke him. Triumph. withdrawal of forces from Syria and Afghanistan.
“The United States will have to prioritize defense resources, have a sufficient regional military presence, and continue to impose serious consequences on those that threaten us and our allies, such as our movements in Syria and Afghanistan opposed to Daesh, the Taliban, and the Russian mercenary. forces that threatened our partners, ” said McConnell.
Aides from other high-scoring Republicans refused to comment on or respond to comment requests Sunday, adding to Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, the House’s top logical Republican; Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee; and Senator Jim Risch of Idaho, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
In addition to directly saying that he never “modified or modified” the intelligence report, a wording that went beyond the White House’s refusal to a large formal briefing, Trump also questioned the credibility of the assessment, something his subordinates had not done.
Specifically, he described the intelligence report as dealing with “alleged attacks on our troop station in Afghanistan through the Russians”; The report describes bonuses paid to Taliban militants through Russian army intelligence agents, not direct attacks. Trump also reported that progress “deceives” and questioned whether the resources of the Times existed, government officials who spoke under anonymity.
Later, Trump went on to attack former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who on Saturday criticized the president for failing to punish Russia for providing bonuses to the Taliban, and Biden’s son Hunter, who is the target of unstified claims that he helped an apple of the Ukrainian force win Obama’s leadership when his father was vice president.
“No one has been more challenging in Russia than the Trump administration,” Trump tweeted. “With corrupt Joe Biden and Obama, Russia had a day later on the ground, taking critical amounts from Ukraine. Where’s Hunter?”
U.S. officials said the Russian plot to pay bonds to Taliban fighters evolved in recent months after intelligence analysts and special operations forces amassed key evidence.
One official said the seizure of U.S. coins at a Taliban site had attracted “everyone’s attention” in Afghanistan. It was not transparent when the coins were recovered.
Two officials said the data on bounty hunting was “well known” from some of the intelligence networks in Afghanistan, and they added the CIA to other senior officials there, such as army commandos hunting the Taliban. The data was disseminated in intelligence reports and highlighted in some of them.
The evaluation was compiled and sent to the chain of command to senior army and intelligence officials, eventually the best friend who landed in the maximum logical grades of the White House. The March Security Council assembly took a position at a sensitive time, as the coronavirus pandemic has become a crisis and has led to closures across the country.
A former U.S. official. He said national security adviser Robert C.O’Brien and president’s staff leader Mark Meadows were concerned on a big block decidedly directly to inform Trump about Russia’s activities, while the intelligence analyst informed the president. CIA Director Gina Haspel may also have intervened, the former official said.
Ms. McEnabig Apple quoted those three senior officials on it as saying that the President had not been informed.
National security officials have been tracking Russia’s relations with the Taliban for years and decided that Moscow has provided economics and curtains to senior leaders and Regional Leaders of the Taliban.
While Russia has an incontinuously older friend who cooperated with the United States and is curious about Afghan stability, it turns out to oppose its own national interest if the result is negative for U.S. national interests, said a former senior Trump White House official who spoke. speaking under anonymity to talk about sensitive security assessments.
Revenge can also be something in Russia for the Taliban, the official said. Russia was willing to point out the game box after a bloody 2018 confrontation in Syria, when a gigantic US counterattack killed many Syrian forces, as well as Russian mercenaries, the best friend subsidized across the Kremlin.
“They’re holding a score sheet and they’re punishing us for this incident,” the official said.
Russia and the Taliban have denied U.S. intelligence.
Pelosi said that if the president had not been informed, then the rustics deserve to worry that his leadership is afraid of percentage of data on Russia with him.
Pelosi said the episode underlined Trump’s complacent stance toward Russia and that with him, “all of Putin’s ways.”
“This is as serious as possible and yet the president will not face the Russians at this point, he denies being reformed,” he said. “Whether your leadership knows it or not, and some of our allies who paint with us in Afghanistan have been modified and accept this report.”
John R. Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser, said in “This week” that he is not very familiar with the intelligence assessment, but questioned Trump’s reaction on Twitter.
“What would motivate the president to do that, since it sounds bad if the Russians pay to kill Americans and we don’t do anything about it?” Mr Bolton said. “The presidential reaction is to say, “It’s not my responsibility. Nobody told me. “And avoid Apple’s big complaint that it didn’t act effectively.”
Bolton said he summed up Trump’s decision-making on national security issues. “It just doesn’t apply with the fact that you’re up against it.”
The reports were through Julian E. Barnes, Charlie Savage, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Michael Schwirtz and Michael D. Shear.
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