The good ole cited "sources familiar" and 'unnamed sources"
The actual Spokespeople at the National Security Council, the Pentagon, the State Department and the C.I.A. declined to comment.
But the NYTimes went with their claims
https://t.co/zMVyDpgaaT
The MSM went ballistic when the claims it was Russia and Trump pushed beck saying that report was inaccurate.
Now there is actual documented Intel soon to drop that indicates it was actually CHINA paying non-state actors in Afghanistan to attack US soldiers!
The original leak out of the Pentagon didn't indicated foreign bad actors were financing Bounties on US Soldiers, and the MSM just immediately inserted Russia to keep up the Trump Russia narrative. Johnny Ratcliffe pushed back on the original report saying it was inconclusive!
Now further intelligence along with an actual money trail is pointing to China as the financiers of Bountygate, and when Trumps said he asked Putin point blank about Bountygate, Putin denied Russian involvement, may have been actually true, and the MSM got it wrong again
Remember back in June, when
@PressSec lashed out at the NYTimes for publishing "unverified" allegations about the Russian bounty intelligence. She said "rogue intelligence officers" were undermining Trump & US security.
She also said POTUS hadn't been briefed because the intelligence hadn't been fully verified.
Now the ODNI has stated "The US has evidence that the CCP attempted to finance attacks on American servicemen by Afghan non-state actors by offering financial incentives or 'bounties'"
All this happened some time after late Feb 2019 when the US struck its deal with the Taliban. It initiated with Chinese manufactured weapons flowing into the region increasing by 200%.
We also need to note that there has not been an American combat death in Afghanistan since.
British and US government officials have previously complained about Chinese-made weapons being used by the Taliban, it's nothing new, but the increase was became substantial.
https://t.co/xyNF4gpPjn
To fully understand the CCP interest in Afghanistan look no further than the CCp's treatment of the Uyghurs and Beijing's desire to prevent Chinese Muslim separatist groups from using the country as a base.
Afghan security officials recently discovered an alleged Chinese spy ring operating in the country apparently seeking to target Uyghurs there
https://t.co/CJ9Mh26zeB
The MSM scoffed at the commander of US forces in Afghanistan, calling him a "Trump lackey" but Gen Frank McKenzie, said back in September that "it just has not been proved to a level of certainty that satisfies me that Russia offered these bounties, intel suggests otherwise."
Remember when Clinton gave China the gyroscopic targeting technology for "launching satellites" that they could also use to vastly improve ICBM targeting? I've written tons on the ties to China with the CLintons and in long form the top tier democrats, including Biden
After Clinton released this technology then we were totally lax in security and let them easily take small warhead technology so they could begin development of effective MIRV warhead technology, vastly increasing the nuclear threat from China! How soon we forget
