White House bosses knew in early 2019 that Russia would secretly reward the Taliban for the deaths of Americans, according to the report, giving intelligence to US officials
According to officials, there was at least one estimate of the daily intelligence details written by President Donald Trump at the time. John Bolton, the then-national security adviser, also told colleagues that he had briefed Trump about the March 2019 intelligence assessment.
The White House did not answer questions about Trump's or other officials' understanding of Russia's provocation in 2019. The White House said it had not provided information on intelligence assessments that Trump had not yet completed. However, it is very rare to verify intelligence before submitting it to superiors.
Bolton declined to comment on Monday when the AP asked if Trump would explain the case in 2019. On Sunday, NBC's "Meet the Press" accused Trump of ignoring Russia's provocation, suggesting that his administration's response was lacking.
"If no one told him about this, he could melt everything," Bolton said.
The revelation raised new doubts over the White House's efforts to remove Trump from Russian intelligence estimates. AP Sunday reported that concerns about Russian gifts were included in a second written presidential paper earlier this year, and that current national security adviser Robert O'Brien has discussed the matter with Trump. O'Brien denies that he did.
On Monday night, O'Brien said intelligence estimates about Russian rewards were "unconfirmed. The administration" is preparing for a warrant action of the situation. "
The administration's preoccupation with Russian efforts raises additional questions as to why Trump did not take punitive action on Moscow, which endangers the lives of Americans. Trump has called in his office full time to improve relations with Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, who is seeking to reestablish Russia as part of a group of world leaders.
Officials said the intelligence assessment was not considered an emergency in 2019, adding that Russian mediation in Afghanistan was not a new phenomenon. For Trump, Bolton clearly said officials with knowledge of the briefing had "no actionable intelligence", meaning the intelligence community didn't have enough information to make a strategic plan or response. However, the categorical evaluation of Russian gifts is the sole purpose of the conference.
Officials insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to disclose highly sensitive information.
Intelligence reports that the Russian operators Taliban and the Haqqani network are allied with the Taliban in Afghanistan in early 2019 and are willing to sign a deal with those named in the Obama administration in 2012 as a foreign terrorist organization. . .
There were meetings about the National Security Council and the Intelligence of Defense Intelligence. The Pentagon declined to comment and the NSC did not respond to questions about the meetings.
Members of the Elite Naval Special Warfare Development Group, popularly known as Seal Team Six, attacked the Taliban outpost and attacked the US. Concerns about Russian navies this year sparked after the seizure of about 500,000,000 currency. This money diminished American intelligence sources' suspicions that the Russians owed money to Taliban terrorists and other affiliates.
The White House said the president was unaware of this development.
Officials have told the AP that career government officials have developed potential options for the White House to respond to the Russian aggression in Afghanistan, first reported by the New York Times. However, the Trump administration has yet to authorize any action.
In 2019 and 2020, surveillance around Russian bouncers came from talk of the takeover by Taliban militants. Authorities familiar with the case told the AP that Taliban activists and various tribes across the country provided similar accounts.
Authorities do not name specific groups in Afghanistan or set deadlines when they are detained.
Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov denies that Russian intelligence officials have paid the Taliban aimed at US and coalition forces.
The United States is investigating whether Russian bouncers caused an American death. Authorities are particularly focused on the April 2019 attack on the American convoy. Returning to Bagram Airfield, the largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan, three U.S. Marines exploded near their armored vehicles with explosives.
The Marines exchanged bullets with a vehicle at some point; However, it is unknown whether the car was shot before or after the explosion.
Bagram district police chief Abdul Rakib Kohistani said at the time that at least five Afghan civilians were injured in the aftermath of the attack on the convoy. It is not known whether civilians were injured by car bombs or that there were shots fired from US Marines.
The Defense Department identified the Marine Staff Sergeant. Christopher Slutman, 43, of Delaware, Newark; Sgt. Benjamin Hines, 31, of York, Pennsylvania; And Robert Hendricks, 25, of Locust Valley, New York, New York, who was a Marine in April 2019. All three Marines were assigned to the 25th Marine, the reserve infantry unit headquarters from Garden City, New York.
Hendricks' father told the AP that the rumor of Russian gifts should be resolved immediately.
"If it flows under the carpet not to make it a big problem with Russia, and a ounces of blood spilled when it is known, I have lost all respect for this administration and everything," said Eric Hendrix.
Marine Major Roger Hollenbeck said at the time that the Reserve Unit was part of the Georgia Deployment Program-Resolution Support Mission, a six-month recurrence between the US Marines and the Georgian Armed Forces. The unit was first deployed in Afghanistan in October 2018.
Three other service members and an Afghan contractor were also injured in the attack. As of April 2019, the attack is under special investigation, which has nothing to do with Russian bounty to find out how.
Officials who spoke with the AP said they have been closely monitoring internal attacks - sometimes called "green-on-blue" incidents - from 2019 onwards in order to determine if they will become Russian.
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