Bountygate Disinformation Post-Mortem

Complete bullshit war propaganda exposed, but it still succeeded in preventing an end to the Afghan war.

 

How the Pentagon failed to sell Afghan government’s bunk ‘Bountygate’ story to US intelligence agencies 

 

The New Unreality: Evidence-Free Claims From Nameless Spies

In ‘Russian Bounty’ Story, Evidence-Free Claims From Nameless Spies Became Fact Overnight

Empire Files: Afghanistan Exposed

 

CIA/Media Mighty Wurlitzer & Afghanistan

 

NY Times Russia-Taliban Backpedaling?

 

Three steps forward two-and-a-half back?

 

A spokesman for the Taliban has denied that they accepted Russia-paid bounties to carry out attacks on Americans and other coalition soldiers, saying that the group needed no such encouragement for its operations. But one American official said the focus had been on criminals closely associated with the Taliban.

So not-Taliban-Taliban are the culprits now.

… the Taliban are known to have hired local criminals as freelancers, said Gen. Zaman Mamozai, the former police chief of the province.

This story gets more full of shit the more you read.

The central claim arrived with zero corroborating evidence that a wire transfer ever even happened.

When you’re talking about Afghan criminal networks with money, the obvious answer is: OPIUM TRAFFICKING. But, that gets no mention in the NY Times, as if there was no opium trafficking in the world’s #1 source for opium.

Suspicions of Russian Bounties Were Bolstered by Data on Financial Transfers

 

War is racketeering: US in Afghanistan for Trillions in minerals

 

General Patraeus, 2010:

 

NY Times / CIA Big Lie: Russia Paying Afghans

 

“To date, DOD has no corroborating evidence to validate the recent allegations found in open-source reports.”

Big surprise…

Pentagon says ‘no corroborating evidence’ of Russian bounties on US troops as media claims increase

Afghan War Ending?

 

The United States and the Taliban Sign a Peace Agreement

Is Trump doing something right?

US-Taliban Peace Deal:
-US troops to be brought down to 8,600 within 135 days.
-US to withdraw from Afghanistan within 14 months
-Start intra-Afghan talks
-Remove members of #Taliban from #UNSC sanctions list#USTalibanAgreement #USTalibanDeal
#AfghanPeaceProcess #DohaPact pic.twitter.com/26aabkjenE

— Geeta Mohan گیتا موہن गीता मोहन (@Geeta_Mohan) February 29, 2020

CIA Pete

Buttigieg said “we were working with everybody across the civilian spectrum in the intelligence community.” Newsweek listed those agencies as the CIA, the NSA, and Defense Intelligence Agency.

Media darling Pete Buttigieg was in unit that worked with the CIA in Afghanistan

During the year of Buttigieg’s deployment in Afghanistan, the United Nations found that opium production skyrocketed and that “Afghanistan produces some 90 percent of the world’s illicit opiates.”

While Mayor Pete Buttigieg waxes humble about his Midwestern upbringing and touts his outsider story, his work alongside the CIA and DEA halfway around the world was a highly unusual task that helped set the stage for his rise to national prominence.

Afghan Papers Expose WaPo’s Own Lies

 

Afghan Papers Inadvertently Document WaPo’s Role in Spreading Official Lies\

 

columns calling for or assuming a military response to the attacks were given a great deal of space, while opinions urging diplomatic and international law approaches as an alternative to military action were nearly nonexistent.

Afghanistan War (Crime) Lies & Incompetence

“What are we trying to do here? We didn’t have the foggiest notion.”
-US General

Arms to Terrorists: The Serbia Files – Islamic State weapons in Yemen trace to US Government

 

Islamic State weapons in Yemen traced back to US Government: Serbia files (part 1)

 

US Task Force Smoking Gun smuggles weapons to Syria: Serbia files (part 2)