{"id":18354,"date":"2020-06-28T15:35:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T19:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=18354"},"modified":"2020-06-28T15:35:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T19:35:59","slug":"shameless-reckless-warmongering-mainstream-media-blatantly-published-false-and-derogatory-story-about-russian-bounties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=18354","title":{"rendered":"SHAMELESS & RECKLESS WARMONGERING: Mainstream Media Blatantly Published False and Derogatory Story About ‘Russian Bounties’"},"content":{"rendered":"

All Players In The NYT ‘Russian Bounties’ In Afghanistan Story Have Slammed It As Fake News<\/h1>\n

ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n

Some are calling it a\u00a0last ditch attempt to keep Russiagate alive<\/a>\u00a0ahead of November. The\u00a0New York Times<\/a>\u00a0on Friday said Russian intelligence officers have been offering Taliban militants cash rewards to kill American and British soldiers.<\/p>\n

In the past two days the claims by the usual anonymous US intelligence officials have crisscrossed the mainstream media, with more “confirmation” offered by…\u00a0more anonymous intelligence officials<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Of course\u00a0Russia promptly denied it<\/strong>, but more importantly\u00a0the White House vehemently rejected the report as “fake news” with the president and his aides saying they’ve never seen such intelligence crossing the president’s desk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Certainly something of this level, which hearkens back to the original 1980’s proxy war between Moscow and Washington centered in Afghanistan (where it should be noted roles were reversed: the CIA spent years funding and weaponizing the jihadists, many of which would go on to make up today’s Taliban), would have been a top national security priority, something presumably impossible to keep from the commander-in-chief.<\/p>\n

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Saturday in response to the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0story that neither\u00a0Trump nor Vice President Mike Pence was ever briefed on such a brazen Russian intelligence plan to hand out bounties.<\/p>\n

“This does not speak to the merit of the alleged intelligence but to the inaccuracy of The New York Times story erroneously suggesting that President Trump was briefed on this matter,”<\/strong>\u00a0she\u00a0said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And Trump himself confirmed as much,\u00a0tweeting\u00a0Sunday morning<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Nobody briefed or told me, VP Pence, or Chief of Staff Mark Meadows<\/strong>\u00a0about the so-called attacks on our troops in Afghanistan by Russians, as reported through an \u201canonymous source\u201d by the Fake News NY Times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Nobody briefed or told me, @VP<\/a> Pence, or Chief of Staff @MarkMeadows<\/a> about the so-called attacks on our troops in Afghanistan by Russians, as reported through an \u201canonymous source\u201d by the Fake News @nytimes<\/a>. Everybody is denying it & there have not been many attacks on us…..<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n