{"id":35436,"date":"2020-07-02T06:50:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T14:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=35436"},"modified":"2020-07-02T06:50:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T14:50:28","slug":"us-claim-of-russian-bounty-plot-in-afghanistan-is-dubious-and-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/02\/us-claim-of-russian-bounty-plot-in-afghanistan-is-dubious-and-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"US Claim of &#8216;Russian Bounty&#8217; Plot in Afghanistan Is Dubious and Dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple US media outlets, citing anonymous intelligence officials, are claiming that Russia offered bounties to kill US soldiers in Afghanistan, and that President Trump has taken no action.<\/p>\n<p>Others are contesting that claim. \u201cOfficials said there was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/29\/us\/politics\/russian-bounty-trump.html\">disagreement among intelligence officials<\/a> about the strength of the evidence about the suspected Russian plot,\u201d the <em>New York Times<\/em> reports. \u201cNotably, the National Security Agency, which specializes in hacking and electronic surveillance, has been more skeptical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe constant flow of Russiagate disinformation into the bloodstream of the Democratic Party and its base is moving that party constantly to the right, while pushing the US deeper into this Cold War,\u201d Blumenthal says.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xMfV0cr1_T4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Reposted from <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/\">The GrayZone<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple US media outlets, citing anonymous intelligence officials, are claiming that Russia offered bounties to kill US soldiers in Afghanistan, and that President Trump has taken no action. Others are contesting that claim. \u201cOfficials said there was disagreement among intelligence officials about the strength of the evidence about the suspected Russian plot,\u201d the New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-35436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":"Max Blumenthal breaks down the \u201cRussian bounty\u201d story\u2019s flaws and how it aims to prolong the war in Afghanistan \u2013 and uses Russiagate tactics to continue pushing the Democratic Party to the right"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35436"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35438,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35436\/revisions\/35438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35436"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=35436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}