U.S. Intel Walks Back Claim Russians Put Bounties on American Troops

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right.

George Orwell, he/his/him

It was a blockbuster story about Russia's return to the imperial "Great Game" in Afghanistan. The Kremlin had spread money around the longtime central Asian battlefield for militants to kill remaining U.S. forces. It sparked a massive outcry from Democrats and their #resistance amplifiers about the treasonous Russian puppet in the White House whose admiration for Vladimir Putin had endangered American troops.

But on Thursday, the Biden administration announced that U.S. intelligence only had "low to moderate" confidence in the story after all. Translated from the jargon of spyworld, that means the intelligence agencies have found the story is, at best, unproven—and possibly untrue.

"The United States intelligence community assesses with low to moderate confidence that Russian intelligence officers sought to encourage Taliban attacks on U.S. and coalition personnel in Afghanistan in 2019 and perhaps earlier", a senior administration official said.

"This information puts a burden on the Russian government to explain its actions and take steps to address this disturbing pattern of behavior", the official said, indicating that Biden is unprepared to walk the story back fully.

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U.S. Intel Walks Back Claim Russians Put Bounties on American Troops

Well, they walked back AFTER the election, so it's all good