from Charlie Savage(nat sec, NYT)
An analytics shop overseen by Trump's DNI Ratcliffe has taken another look at the intel supporting the CIA's assessment that RU paid bounties for killings of US soldiers in Afghanistan, producing a memo that seeks to highlight doubts
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/us/politics/memo-russian-bounties.html
The memo is said to contain no new info & both its timing/stressing of doubts suggested that it was intended to bolster the Trump admin's attempts to justify its inaction on the months-old assessment
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@cephalopie It is a hard argument and it took a week to develop while the TRE45ON message has sunk in.
@mhsheikh vote vets ad is gloves off, knives out.
@cephalopie yep - cold.
@mhsheikh cold as dead soldiers.
@mhsheikh 19000 lies in, people won't believe the politicized bullshit