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

The Times has had to walk back its initial scoop on Bountygate. A familiar pattern. US National Security officials used dubious intelligence reports to derail Trump's planned troop withdraw from Afghanistan.

 

Obviously the US needs such BS fake news and lies every now and then to justify tough reactions up to war ...
Gulf of Tonkin ... there was nothing illegal or evil expressed in North Vietnam, on the contrary ... and the USA was already at war in Vietnam and failed miserably there!
Saddam and WMDs in 2003 ... where he really didn't have any and all the lies about how Saddam bought uranium in Africa etc. ... and Iraq was attacked and the USA failed miserably again ...
Assad has used poison gas ... although there is no evidence for it ... and Tomahawk missiles hailed in Syria ... and the United States gave up cowardly in Syria and retreated miserably. US soldiers there said they had never been as ashamed of being Americans as they were after this retreat ...

It just seems to be the latest variant of lying and cheating to make the new Cold War with Russia even colder ...

 

Are you trying to say there were no bounties offered?
Cause I just saw some general on TV saying it wasn't to bad.

 

Revolving door between Pentagon and defense contractors continues to spin

 

(CNN)The top US general overseeing operations in the Middle East and Afghanistan said Tuesday that the intelligence concerning Russian operatives offering bounties to Taliban-linked militants was "very worrisome" but that the information wasn't solid enough to hold up in a court of law.

Gen. Frank McKenzie, the commander of US Central Command, also told a small group of reporters while traveling to the region that he was not convinced that the Russian bounty program was directly responsible for the deaths of US personnel.
"The intelligence wasn't proved to me. It was proved enough to worry me. It wasn't proved enough that I'd take it to a court of law. That's often true in battlefield intelligence," McKenzie said, according to a transcript provided by the Defense Department.
His comments mark the first time a Pentagon official has answered questions about the US intelligence that assessed there was an effort by a Russian military intelligence unit to pay the Taliban to kill US soldiers.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/politics/us-russia-afghanistan-bounty-intelligence/index.html