'There's almost no way... that the President could not have known' about the intelligence on the alleged Russian bounty scheme, says Steve Hall, former CIA chief of Russian and Ukraine operations.
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Nearly a week has passed since The New York Times published a story titled"Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says."The fallout has been coming ever since. Congressional leaders were briefed by intelligence leaders on Thursday.
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