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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Jul 2, 2020, 08:06 PM Jul 2020

Intel officials brief congressional leaders on reported Russian bounty on US troops

Source: ABC News

CIA Director Gina Haspel led a slate of intelligence officials to the U.S. Capitol Thursday to brief a select group of lawmakers on reports Russia offered bounties to the Taliban to kill American troops in Afghanistan.

Following a briefing for the so-called "Gang of Eight" -- party leaders including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, as well as the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees -- Pelosi said President Donald Trump “should have been verbally briefed” on the intelligence.

“I thought that before the hearing and has nothing to do with anything that we were presented at the hearing,” Pelosi, D-Calif, said. “Of course, the president should have been briefed. This is of the highest priority. Force protection, a threat to our men and women in uniform.”

“The president, it was in his PDB, presidential daily brief, but it wasn't verbally,” she asserted. “That doesn't mean that he shouldn’t have read that. But again it has nothing to do with we saw today.”

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/intel-officials-brief-congressional-leaders-on-reported-russian-bounty-on-us-troops/ar-BB16gg5Z?li=BBnb7Kz

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Schumer was so pissed off he could barely speak afterwards. BigmanPigman Jul 2020 #1

BigmanPigman

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1. Schumer was so pissed off he could barely speak afterwards.
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 08:19 PM
Jul 2020

All he got out before he stormed off was, "There is nothing being done to punish Russia for what they are doing".

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