NYT: Russians paid Afghans to kill American troops

[Dill]

(06-28-2020, 04:46 PM)GMDino Wrote: Which begs the question, why?  Why didn't the POTUS get briefed on it?

Maybe because, as many have said, Trump just doesn't understand or want to listen to briefings?

I see three possibilities.

1. It was in his PDB, but he never saw it because he notoriously never reads or even monitors them consistently. People are afraid to bring up information that might force difficult choices with regard to Russia (as we have heard from three books now), so no one alerted him.

2. Knowing he doesn't read PDBs, some one did specifically altert him to that intel, but he knew making it public would complicate his relation to Putin and US voters in an election year. So he chose not to say or do anything.

3. Or as with his intended signing of the order recalling Troops for S Korea, he may have resolved to do something, then forgot about the whole thing.

This may push another .75% out of the Trump camp.  But not these guys.