"And the Department of Defense, through Chief Pentagon Spokesman Jonathan Hoffman, said that"[t]o date, DOD has no corroborating evidence to validate the recent allegations found in open-source reports.
"It's not clear whether the denials that the president had been briefed mean the intelligence never appeared in the President's Daily Brief or that the issue was never brought up to the president personally, and seemingly conflicting information going public has muddied the issue of just how sure the government is that Russia has put bounties on American troops in Afghanistan.
The White House has also denied that the issue was ever flagged to Vice President Pence.
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was not one of the Democrats attending the Tuesday morning briefing at the White House, but on Monday said that she spoke with Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe and Central Intelligence Agency Director Gina Haspel about the bounty allegations.
Pelosi did not say in a statement what they told her, but said that she called on the intelligence community leaders "To follow up on my formal request for a full House briefing on the intelligence surrounding Russian bounties."
"Pelosi added:"Many serious questions remain regarding what the White House is doing to address threats to American and allied troops and to hold Russia accountable.
The inconvenient question neither querulous Dems nor mainstream and social media aren't asking, is if the New York Times knew about the Russian bounty allegations back in March, why did they wait until now to release them?
"It's not clear whether the denials that the president had been briefed mean the intelligence never appeared in the President's Daily Brief or that the issue was never brought up to the president personally, and seemingly conflicting information going public has muddied the issue of just how sure the government is that Russia has put bounties on American troops in Afghanistan.
The White House has also denied that the issue was ever flagged to Vice President Pence.
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was not one of the Democrats attending the Tuesday morning briefing at the White House, but on Monday said that she spoke with Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe and Central Intelligence Agency Director Gina Haspel about the bounty allegations.
Pelosi did not say in a statement what they told her, but said that she called on the intelligence community leaders "To follow up on my formal request for a full House briefing on the intelligence surrounding Russian bounties."
"Pelosi added:"Many serious questions remain regarding what the White House is doing to address threats to American and allied troops and to hold Russia accountable.
The inconvenient question neither querulous Dems nor mainstream and social media aren't asking, is if the New York Times knew about the Russian bounty allegations back in March, why did they wait until now to release them?
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