A) it aint' that bad
B) it's so secret we have to keep it a secret from the President
C) it's a secret we can't talk about because that's how secret it is
D) We don't tell the President everything
E) It's double super-secret and you have to quit pretending you know anything.
F) And it's so super double private secret we can't let the President say anything to Putin about it, either. Although it's fine if the President calls Angela Merkel "stupid." Because, come on, we all expected the President to do that, didn't we?
G) Besides, it was never "sufficiently serious" to bother Trump's pretty little head with. Soldiers die, amirite? Who cares what the reason is?
“So let’s back up. Let’s back up,” Pompeo said Wednesday when a reporter asked about his conversations with Russian officials after aides told him about the alleged bounties. “A lot of what you said suggests knowledge that I don’t think you actually have. I don’t want to comment on the intelligence.”Yeah, this is going great! And all that means he's not denying this:
He said that his department had responded in “precisely the correct way” and that U.S. and coalition forces were “postured appropriately.”
Pompeo bristled again when another reporter, prefacing the question by acknowledging that Pompeo didn’t want to delve into underlying intelligence, asked why Trump wasn’t briefed on the bounty allegations.
“I’m not going to further jeopardize intelligence capabilities,” he responded. “I’m not going to put at risk the young men and women of Afghanistan in the same way that some news organizations have done. I just simply won’t engage in that, Kylie. It’s inappropriate, it is dangerous, and you ought not be part of that.”
He added that the President is briefed when a threat is considered “sufficiently serious.”
“Afghan officials said prizes of as much as $100,000 per killed soldier were offered for American and coalition targets.” https://t.co/sGLDXxmtvI— George Conway (@gtconway3d) July 2, 2020
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