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DetlefK

(16,670 posts)
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 12:12 PM Jul 2020

2018: Russia armed the Taliban against the US. Trump ordered CIA to share intelligence with Russia.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/trump-admin-urged-cia-to-share-intelligence-with-the-kremlin-and-took-no-action-against-russia-arming-the-taliban-report/

“Why would the Russian government think it could get away with paying bounties to the Taliban to kill American soldiers?,” Just Security’s Ryan Goodman writes. “One answer to that question may be the extraordinary response that Moscow received when the Trump Administration learned of a precursor to the bounty operation. From mid-2017 and into 2018, Pentagon officials became increasingly confident in intelligence reports that the Kremlin was arming the Taliban, which posed a significant threat to American and coalition forces on the ground in Afghanistan.”

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And according to Goodman, “Trump directed the CIA to share intelligence information on counterterrorism with the Kremlin despite no discernible reward, former intelligence officials who served in the Trump Administration told Just Security.”

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According to Douglas London, a former CIA senior operations officer, “Despite increasing reflections of Russian material support to the Taliban raised publicly by Defense Secretary James Mattis in 2017 and throughout 2018 by Gen. John Nicholson, President Trump pressured CIA to invest time and resources increasing counterterrorist cooperation with Russia.”
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2018: Russia armed the Taliban against the US. Trump ordered CIA to share intelligence with Russia. (Original Post) DetlefK Jul 2020 OP
Traitor!!!!!!!!!! secondwind Jul 2020 #1
Remember the Oval Office Meeting? Wellstone ruled Jul 2020 #2
What could he possibly have on him? superpatriotman Jul 2020 #3
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
2. Remember the Oval Office Meeting?
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 12:42 PM
Jul 2020

There was a story about a Memory Stick and a Encrypted phone exchanged by Trump and the Russian PM.

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