US Intel Walks Back Claim Russians Put Bounties on American Troops
After it has served its election-interference purpose the deep state admits its lie
It was a blockbuster story about Russia’s return to the imperial “Great Game” in Afghanistan. The Kremlin had spread money around the longtime central Asian battlefield for militants to kill remaining U.S. forces. It sparked a massive outcry from Democrats and their #resistance amplifiers about the treasonous Russian puppet in the White House whose admiration for Vladimir Putin had endangered American troops.
But on Thursday, the Biden administration announced that U.S. intelligence only had “low to moderate” confidence in the story after all. Translated from the jargon of spyworld, that means the intelligence agencies have found the story is, at best, unproven—and possibly untrue.
“The United States intelligence community assesses with low to moderate confidence that Russian intelligence officers sought to encourage Taliban attacks U.S. and coalition personnel in Afghanistan in 2019 and perhaps earlier,” a senior administration official said.
"It was a blockbuster story….The Kremlin had spread money around [Afghanistan] for militants to kill US forces. It sparked a massive outcry from Democrats…But on Thursday, the Biden Admin. announced that U.S. intelligence only had “low to moderate” confidence in the story." https://t.co/Pxtas4RZH8
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
Remember this as you watch cable stars claiming to be "journalists" yet again treat a U.S. intelligence agency assertion, completely unaccompanied by evidence, as Truth.
This, apparently, is what they mean by "Real Reporting™": blind faith in CIA pronouncements.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
Remember: this discredited RUSSIA BOUNTY story wasn't just treated as Gospel by the CNN/NBC/NYT axis.
It was a main argument used in July by pro-war House Dems & their key ally, Liz Cheney, to try to block Trump's withdrawal plan from Afghanistan:https://t.co/iT5GB3WPc1
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
Debunking bullshit propaganda reports from the corporate press is one form of Real Reporting™ — a very important form of it — because media propaganda deceives and misleads people, while the debunking illuminates and informs: the core purpose of journalism.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
It's good that the Daily Beast noted the US intelligence assessment of "low to moderate confidence" in the Russia bounty story. But they were also one of the many, many outlets uncritically hyping and pushing it:https://t.co/qCwmgbnWLR
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
What's most amazing about this is that this "walking back" by US intelligence agencies is happening **on the same day** they just published a new evidence-free Russiagate claim, and it doesn't cause media stars to be even a tiny bit skeptical of it.https://t.co/zhoAhUenPr
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
If you don't know that US intelligence agencies exist to spread disinformation and lie, then you know literally nothing about how the US Government functions.
And if you claim to be a "journalist" but mindlessly treat all US Govt claims as true with no evidence, you're pitiful.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
Working on an article on how — even on the day a CIA leaked story about RUSSIAN BOUNTIES fell apart — major journalists are mindlessly repeating a new Russiagate claim from USG as Gospel, even though it has no evidence. Hardest challenge is picking examples – so many of them.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
This time I believe the US Government is telling me the truth – 😇
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
"Right now, I want to hear their plan for Taliban and GRU agents in body bags" — @SenSasse, June 29, 2020, calling for the US military to kill Russians and Afghans based on the now-discredited story of RUSSIAN BOUNTIES.https://t.co/wUC4uCHbfp
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
A mix of state TV and disinformation. CNN, June 28, 2020. Watch what they do:https://t.co/GcPFfOSKLf
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
Watch how pro-war House Democrats and Liz Cheney used this Russia bounty story to try to block Trump's withdrawal plan from Afghanistan. This is @sethmoulton in July. Listen to what he said:https://t.co/Fkzadf8ZHk
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
Not only was there no evidence presented for this Russia Bounty story — one that the CNN/MSNBC/NYT axis stated over and over was true (like the Brian Sicknick/fire extinguisher tale and many others), it was long clear this story was dubious. From Sept:https://t.co/4WPbtc9HJT
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
Do you see how often these media outlets disseminate utter falsehoods and fabrications? The reason they're obsessed with ranting about disinformation on Facebook & demanding censorship of others is so you don't realize how often they do this:pic.twitter.com/nrmifW6Ifq
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
This is where the most disinformation comes from. Right here. Over and over and over.https://t.co/PEvgI3t5P7
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
It's so fucking infuriating. These are the outlets which demand the internet be censored in the name of stopping disinformation — so that the only ones who can speak are them — yet they are the ones who spread the most Fake News of anyone.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
This is the individual in the US media most responsible for spreading deranged conspiracy theories, Fake News, jingoistic hysteria and CIA propaganda to millions of people over the last five years. Watch her in action:https://t.co/dMTNzqadTq
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
Watch Maddow's show tonight (I know, it's hard) to see if she acknowledges that she went on air over and over and unquestioningly ranted to millions of people about a dangerous and inflammatory CIA story for which there was no evidence presented. She's done this repeatedly.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
“This information puts a burden on the Russian government to explain its actions and take steps to address this disturbing pattern of behavior,” [LOL.] the official said, indicating that Biden is unprepared to walk the story back fully.
According to the officials on Thursday’s call, the reporting about the alleged “bounties” came from “detainee reporting” – raising the specter that someone told their U.S.-aligned Afghan jailers what they thought was necessary to get out of a cage. Specifically, the official cited “information and evidence of connections to criminal agents in Afghanistan and elements of the Russian government” as sources for the intelligence community’s assessment.
Without additional corroboration, such reporting is notoriously unreliable. Detainee reporting from a man known as Ibn Shaikh al-Libi, extracted from torture, infamously and bogusly fueled a Bush administration claim, used to invade Iraq, about Saddam Hussein training al-Qaeda to make poison gas.
Rarely discussed was the main reason to believe the story: the CIA actually did fund Afghan guerillas to kill Russian forces during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan of the 1980s.
The Pentagon said at the time its massive intelligence apparatus, which includes both battlefield intelligence and the world’s most sophisticated surveillance network, did not generate the bounties story. In September, McKenzie said that the intelligence remained uncorroborated. “It just has not been proved to a level of certainty that satisfies me,” he told NBC News.
But Democrats ran with the election-time story. Then-candidate Biden called it a “horrifying revelation” if true. The senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Robert Menendez (D-NJ), introduced a measure to sanction Russia for the alleged bounties. Congressional Democrats claimed to have been insufficiently briefed on the account, which the Trump White House called a “hoax,” and suggested there was a cover-up underway. When Trump himself denied being briefed on the story, House intelligence committee chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) remarked, “Is this an issue where they cannot tell the president things he doesn’t want to hear when it comes to Vladimir Putin and Russia?”
Added House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) in June, “I think we knew the White House perspective, what we need to know is the intelligence perspective.” Now he knows.
Source: The Daily Beast
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Russians Put Bounties on American Troops
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That Russian ?? Yupp IMO must be that Russian ..