Russia Paid Bounties to Murder US Troops, Trump Lets Them

John Bolton did not brief him. John Bolton has not made this claim and does even claim to know about it

There hasn't been a casualty in Afghanistan since the supposed written brief.

 

You are having great trouble keeping up, I see. People close to John Bolton have made the claim.

https://apnews.com/425e43fa0ffdd6e126c5171653ec47d1

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...ould-have-personally-briefed-trump-on-russian

John Bolton himself saying "I would have "

Let it go

 

I don’t know if trump was briefed or not, but he know now so what is he doing about it?

secondly, why the hell was he not briefed if indeed that’s the case. I can’t imagine another admin not briefing the president or another president not being briefed

 

Why does this matter ?

 

This is so stupid. Typical liberal. I just want Trump to nanny boo boo Putin. **** actual lives.

 

Jeez

Aren’t you implying that lives killed prior to written brief and after the actual bounty doesn’t count ?

 

Only for typical liberals. Typical conservatives are not good with math, so no skin off their nose.

 

and of course, Schiff was most likely who leaked it to the NYT

 

Why do you seemingly care more about “owning the libs” than keeping our troops and our allies troops safe from Russians?

 

And citing mollie and sean from the federalist... smh...

 

I think the point is Adam Schiff has been out front criticizing Trump on this. I think the bigger issue is intelligence wasn't making a big deal about this for whatever reason.

 

Because it's the Admin's job to make a big deal about it, not the intelligence community.

 

Actually it's the intelligence community who informs on threats. How would the administration know what's pressing?

Edit: and again there hasn't been a casualty in over four months

 

When you're ready to get off his dick and read facts let me know.

Former Trump intelligence officials say they had trouble briefing him on Russia: report

Former Trump administration officials said President Trump’s national security advisers began limiting their briefing of the president on matters relating to Russia due to his frequent pushback on such assessments, CNN reported.

Former officials responsible for briefing Trump on national security issues said they found he frequently became angry when being presented with intelligence implicating Russia in political interference.

"The president has created an environment that dissuades, if not prohibits, the mentioning of any intelligence that isn't favorable to Russia," a former senior national security staffer told the network.

To avoid such episodes, briefers often only included Russia-related material in the president’s written briefing materials, but later found that he frequently did not read the written material, the network reported.

While the briefers did not cease briefing Trump on Russia-related matters altogether, they made a calculation to only brief him on them when severe threats were involved, officials told CNN.

A former intelligence official told the network that briefers’ approach was "Never casually go in on Russia, decide when it's differential …. Save it for when it matters."

The report comes amid allegations that Russian intelligence officials offered Afghan militants bounties to kill coalition forces, including U.S. troops, and that the information was included in a February briefing. The president and White House officials have vocally pushed back on the reports that Trump was briefed on it, with Trump calling the intelligence itself a “hoax.”

"The president was not briefed because at the time of these allegations they were uncorroborated," White House national security adviser Robert O'Brien said Wednesday. "The president's career CIA briefer decided not to brief him because it was unverified intelligence ... and knowing all the facts I know, I certainly support her decision."

“Any thought that we wouldn't brief him on something because it would anger him, I don't even know how to respond to that question,” O’Brien added.

White House Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, who took office in May, told CNN the report was “totally false.”

The Hill has reached out to the White House and Ratcliffe’s office for comment.

https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...e-officials-say-they-had-trouble-briefing-him

 

It’s not the intelligence committee’s responsibility to inform the Administration. Congress doesn’t have their own intel agencies those are under the Executive Branch. That was the whole basis of the conflict regarding testimony of Intel officials during the impeachment hearings.

 

This is about collusion mostly more important the accusations were not corroborated. That's the point.

 

You're missing the point. Apparently intelligence wasn't heavily pushing something needed to be done

 

**** waiting for the election. Let’s get this ****ing traitor out of office and in to jail now.