The DNC Times, formerly known as the NY Times, reported an incendiary story that suggested the Trump administration was briefed on Russia offering bounties to the Taliban for killing Americans. It was flatly denied
“The CIA Director, National Security Adviser and the Chief of Staff can all confirm that neither the President nor the Vice President were briefed on the alleged Russian bounty intelligence,” press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said.
The statement did not confirm that the intelligence existed, in keeping with ordinary practice, she said, but was a comment on “the inaccuracy of The New York Times story erroneously suggesting that President Trump was briefed on this matter.”
The report claimed that the president and the National Security Council were informed of the covert operations in March, but had taken no action in response.
The current DNI denies it
Statement by DNI Ratcliffe: "I have confirmed that neither the President nor the Vice President were ever briefed on any intelligence alleged by the New York Times in its reporting yesterday." (1/2)
— Office of the DNI (@ODNIgov) June 28, 2020
The former Acting DNI also denied it
https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1277024942232530945
The story may not even be accurate. I am not buying any more of this crap until someone actually puts his or her name to it. But that got me thinking. I know of someone else who in essence paid Iran to murder Americans.
Early this year, on the orders of President Donald Trump, Qassem Soleimani met his demise. Soleimani was personally responsible for the deaths of more than 500 Americans:
“Soleimani is the guy that sent the copper-tipped IEDs into Iraq,” said Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, referring to powerful improvised explosive devices, which Marine Corps Commandant General Joseph Dunford testified last week were responsible for the deaths of 500 soldiers and Marines.
Soleimani supplied the Explosively Formed Penetrators, which were used to kill at least 603 Americans, to Iraq. In 2007 Soleimani said that he “was the sole decision-maker on Iranian activities in Iraq.”
Got that?
For these murders, Barack Obama rewarded Iran with $1.7 billion in cash, and freed up $8 billion in assets. Additionally, obama gave Iran everything it wanted in the JCPOA agreement.
Not only did obama reward Iran for these murders, he gave Soleimani sanctions relief
That Soleimani—who runs Iran’s elite paramilitary and covert operations group, the Quds Force—was even on the list appeared to catch some U.S. officials by surprise. A senior administration official briefing reporters on Tuesday morning didn’t have a ready response when asked when and why Soleimani was added. Secretary of State John Kerry reportedly denied that the 58-year-old general was on the list to be freed from the sanctions yoke. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, agreed, saying Soleimani—whom the U.S. accused in 2011 of plotting to launch a terrorist attack in the United States—had been confused with someone else with a similar name.
They were all wrong—or maybe didn’t want to be right. Soleimani is, in fact, on the list, a Treasury Department official later confirmed to The Daily Beast. And his presence definitely surprised some powerful lawmakers, who are already sharpening their knives for a filleting of the Iran deal.
Iran put that cash to good use, funding terrorism across the region.
The U.S. government has traced some of the $1.7 billion released to Iran by the Obama administration to Iranian-backed terrorists in the two years since the cash was transferred.
According to knowledgeable sources, Iran has used the funds to pay its main proxy, the Lebanon-based terrorist group Hezbollah, along with the Quds Force, Iran’s main foreign intelligence and covert action arm and element of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
The number of deaths underwritten by that money has yet to be determined.
So let’s be clear. There is concrete proof obama rewarded Iran for killing American soldiers.
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