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Top White House officials have reportedly narrowed the list of potential individuals who could have leaked information about Russian agents providing funds to Taliban-linked militants to target American troops in Afghanistan.
Politico Playbook reported Tuesday that fewer than 10 people remain on a list of suspects in the internal investigation, a sign that President Trump is serious about finding and possibly punishing whichever official was behind the leak to the media.
Congressional Republicans including Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) have also joined in on the criticism, demanding a firm response from the president, who has argued that intelligence surrounding the bounties was not credible.
"I'm interested in hearing the administration speak clearly about their plans that aren't just hypothetical sanctions sometime out in the future, but what should we be doing now to make [Russian intelligence] have more doubts about their behavior not just in Afghanistan but more broadly," Sasse told The Hill this week.
We shouldnt be cozied up to Russia or giving them favors of any kind, added his colleague, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah). What we do know is Russias been helping the Taliban, the Talibans been killing Americans, and thats all I need to know to know that we should be tough on Russia. I certainly wouldnt want to be inviting them to the G-7, (referring to the Group of Seven).
White House officials have engaged in numerous hunts for leakers throughout Trump's first term, though most have fizzled out without resulting in notable firings.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/506147-trump-administration-narrows-suspects-in-russia-bounty-leak
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,457 posts)He's decided to go to war against people whom leaked the information? Brilliant.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)He should have to pay the money it costs back to the American people.
grumpyduck
(6,290 posts)Magicians call it misdirection.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,457 posts)Trump's MO
agingdem
(7,874 posts)with a candlestick...that was easy
NCjack
(10,279 posts)always the one with the best credentials. Kinda embarrassing since TRE45ON only hires THE Best.
underpants
(183,024 posts)Its been 3 + years of leak after leak. Wouldnt you figure sources by containing info to certain groups and finding out where specific info was coming from?
These 5 people get this info and these 5 get this. Test with other info to see if you can ID 2-3 people in each group. Every once in a while give them bullshit so you know exactly where it comes from.
Im not that smart to be able to figure that out.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)agingdem
(7,874 posts)he has to make up the Mar-a-Lago budget shortfall somehow..now tell me that hasn't crossed your mind???
Phoenix61
(17,027 posts)Whoever leaked that has access to a lot more. If I knew I was going down Id go for a Down in a blaze of glory scenario.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Too bad they think the problem is the leak, rather than Turd's criminal complicity in murdering US troops.
Arkansas Granny
(31,543 posts)for placing bounties on the heads of our soldiers? Trump might as well move Putin into the West Wing for the rest of his term and cut out the middle man.
Raster
(20,998 posts)chriscan64
(1,789 posts)there was less need to leak to the press. If a threat was false, nothing had to be done or said. If true, responses were crafted and the release of information to the public was considered. The right choice was not always made on this issue, but overall the system worked.
What we have now is dereliction at best and treason at worst. In between, the unanswered questions sit like a 400 pound gorilla. If he really didn't know, then there is another line of inquiry as to why not. None of the possible options pass muster. The most charitable of these options is that Trump simply does not do his job. Circumstantial evidence points to a darker reality.
Arkansas Granny
(31,543 posts)chriscan64
(1,789 posts)The silence is the main part of the circumstantial evidence of Russian appeasement or compromise. The worst possible reality is most likely the truth.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)Got it.
C_U_L8R
(45,039 posts)Meanwhile Trump has done squat about Putin murder troops by bounty. They've betrayed everyone but their bank accounts.
spanone
(135,935 posts)but WHO THE FUCK LEAKED IT.
edhopper
(33,666 posts)when they try to turn the story to the "leakers", it means they lost and can't run away from the story.
It never works.
2naSalit
(86,951 posts)is that the military are like his slaves... he's C in C so they HAVE to do as he commands. I'm sure it arouses him.
The sooner he is neutralized the better.
Nevilledog
(51,286 posts)If it was a hoax then it's made up so there would have been nothing to leak.
Champp
(2,114 posts)Perverted draft-dodging Republican bastards are betraying our soldiers.