The White House reportedly hasn't authorized any official response to the alleged operation, despite knowing about it for months — and it's not clear why
President Donald Trump speaks to the troops during a surprise Thanksgiving day visit at Bagram Air Field, on November 28, 2019 in Afghanistan. Photo: AFP via Getty Images A Russian spy unit secretly offered bounties last year to Taliban-linked militants for the killing of U.S. coalition forces in Afghanistan, including American troops, the New York Times reported Friday. President Trump was briefed on the intelligence and the U.S.
The National Security Council discussed the intelligence during an interagency meeting at the White House in March, but the Trump administration did not brief U.S. allies about it until this week. The Kremlin has purportedly begun backing the Taliban in recent years as part of its efforts to destabilize adversaries like the U.S., despite having declared the Islamist militant group a terrorist organization in 2003 — but it had been considered low-level support up to now. Per the Times:
G.R.U., of course, is the same Russian intelligence organization which, though two cyber-units, worked to interfere in the 2016 U.S. president election. Russia did so both to boost overall political discord in the U.S. as well as to help elect President Trump — who has since repeatedly taken a soft approach toward the Kremlin, and who seems to trust and genuinely admire Russia’s strongman leader, Vladimir Putin.
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