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"Trump Pushed CIA to Give Intelligence to Kremlin, While Taking No Action Against Russia Arming Taliban"
Ryan Goodman for Just Security(.org); July 8, 2020.
https://www.justsecurity.or...ssia-arming-taliban/


This is a valuable addition to the "Russia Paid The Taliban Bounties For Killing American Troops" thread library.

The President's supporters and defenders could scroll through this well organized article and engage with some of what's being argued against the President in this matter.

The estimated time to read this closely from end to end is 20 minutes.

This is a little "blurb" about the author of this report, Ryan Goodman.
https://www.justsecurity.org/author/goodmanryan/



That's the same message that I posted on the previous page of this thread. I am here to add to it.

This is how Ryan Goodman's report begins:

quote Why would the Russian government think it could get away with paying bounties to the Taliban to kill American soldiers? 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. President Trump’s actions in the face of the Russia-Taliban arms program likely signaled weak US resolve in the eyes of Putin and Russian military intelligence. Three dimensions of Trump’s response are described in detail in this article, based on interviews with several former Trump administration officials who spoke to Just Security on the record. First, President Trump decided not to confront Putin about supplying arms to the terrorist group. Second, during the very times in which U.S. military officials publicly raised concerns about the program’s threat to U.S. forces, Trump undercut them. He embraced Putin, overtly and repeatedly, including at the historic summit in Helsinki. Third, behind the scenes, 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.

I underlined the phrase "based on interviews with several former Trump administration officials."

These are not just the commonplace "unnamed" or "anonymous" sources.

Ryan Goodman's report includes more names of current and former Trump administration officials and serving and former U.S. military and IC officers than you could "shake a stick at." It's replete with names. Names like "Marc Polymeropoulos, who retired in mid-2019 from the Senior Intelligence Service at the CIA," and "Douglas London, a CIA Senior Operations Officer who retired at the end of 2018."

You may even want to scroll through it, to see if your own name was used.

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