NEW: Trump admin. tells Congress intelligence about potential Russian bounties may have been included at some point in the president's daily brief but not conveyed in a formal threat briefing because it wasn't yet 'actionable,' Republican Rep. McCaul says.
McCaul, who said he emerged from the briefing with deep concerns that the intelligence may be correct, said lawmakers were told that no U.S. service members had died as a result of Russia's paying Afghan militants to kill them.
The remarks add to deepening confusion about whether a Russian bounty offer was ever acted upon and when the U.S. learned about it. An official familiar with the intelligence said it showed that U.S. troops and Afghan civilians did die as a result, although other officials have indicated that that hasn't been corroborated.
"They did stress that fact that they did everything possible to protect our forces over there," McCaul said."And the record, according to them, the fact no one had been killed, you know, I think speaks to that."Still, McCaul and other Republicans left the hearing calling for swift action to respond if the intelligence is corroborated. McCaul said that if the allegations prove true, the U.S.
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