GOP senator demands accountability over reports of Russian bounties on U.S. troops

[babylonsister]

16 mins ago - Politics & Policy
GOP senator demands accountability over reports of Russian bounties on U.S. troops
Fadel Allassan
Fadel Allassan


Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) sent a letter to President Trump on Monday calling for Senate hearings over media reports that U.S. intelligence assessed that a Russian spy unit offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

Why it matters: The letter, from a Republican Trump ally on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is a sign that the Senate could break partisan lines to scrutinize whether the president knew about the intelligence — and if so, why he did not act on it.

The big picture: Trump has denied reports that he was briefed on the intelligence, and White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Monday that there was "no consensus within the intelligence community" about the allegations.

McEnany would not say whether the intelligence was included in the President’s Daily Brief, and instead reiterated that Trump was not “personally briefed on the matter."

The White House briefed several House Republicans on the intelligence on Monday, including House Republican Conference chair Liz Cheney — who called on the administration to provide answers about the reports on Sunday.

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Read the letter via DocumentCloud @ link~

https://www.axios.com/gop-todd-young-senate-hearings-russian-bounty-28b06a4d-934d-4d45-ac68-da99058e4454.html

[Nevilledog]

1. Letter written before or after the treason meeting with trump and repubs?

[Thomas Hurt]

2. Todd drew the short straw to be the "reasonable" con...

[SouthernCal_Dem]

3. He says this in the letter:

"I believe that you would have wanted to know this critical intelligence information and be provided with the resources necessary to save the lives of our men and women in uniform."

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Ummmm.......no.

That's where you're wrong, Todd.

Trump doesn't give a shit about the troops. He only cares about himself.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. So Young is the

water carrier for Mothers Boy if his Party needs to dump Trump.

[Whiskeytide]

5. Is Todd calling for investigations into ...

... Obama, Hillary, Hunter or Joe??? Or the fake media? Or the biased intelligence community? Or all of the above?

[Iliyah]

6. List all the letters that the GOP sent to shithole showing "concern" . . .

Crickets . . .

Response from WH and it's ok with republicans.

[wiggs]

7. Everybody knows damn well what he did and that it's likely he has done as

bad or worse many times, in other ways. At this point, everybody knows and the only question is what to do about the entire debacle.

Hearings or investigations on specific scandals have to happen, I suppose, but I view them as ways to delay immediate action by his party or by individual goprs in a position to save the country from this and a dozen other outrages.

It should be assumed this guy in the WH is exactly what he's shown us to be, unfit and literally dangerous. And the machinery of removal should be in motion without lengthy court cases, investigations, subpoenas, and more. Those can continue of course and maybe their focus is criminal. But there couldn't possibly be more information required, in a healthy society, in order to limit the danger and rid ourselves of an enormous accident of 'democracy' that has proven disastrous.

This is a crossroads. If none step up and step forward, then the last hope is the election. Literally, a hope...because there's no certainty the election process and results will be fair. Those who tainted the last election are still around and have even more wealth and more powerful allies in the WH and DOJ. The Senate, looks like, was theirs last time around already.

So if hearings and investigations will let those goprs off the hook, then we aren't fully pursuing the best path unless we ALSO demand immediate action and accountability from them.

[rusty fender]

8. He wants an investigation

so that a “deep-state” scapegoat can be identified. He has already indicated that he believes Trumpass wasn’t notified