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(22,671 posts)
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 03:50 PM Jul 2020

Duckworth asks Esper whether DOD is probing links between troop deaths and Russian bounties

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., is demanding to know whether the Pentagon is investigating whether any American troops died in Afghanistan as a result of the bounties reputed to have been offered by Russia to attack them.

“It is unacceptable that to date, the Trump administration appears to be ignoring a matter of great importance to Gold Star family members whose loved ones were killed while serving in Afghanistan: were any U.S. troop casualties in Afghanistan connected with the alleged [Russian military intelligence service] bounty payments to Taliban-linked militants?,” Duckworth wrote in a letter sent Thursday to Defense Secretary Mark Esper.
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Thursday’s letter is the latest action by the senator in response to the reports regarding the intelligence assessments. Duckworth also requested in June that the Senate Armed Services Committee hold a public hearing on the intelligence. - Stars and Stripes
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Duckworth asks Esper whether DOD is probing links between troop deaths and Russian bounties (Original Post) ffr Jul 2020 OP
Go Senator Duckworth! Nevilledog Jul 2020 #1
Keep after this gratuitous Jul 2020 #2
God I love her. How I wish she were my senator. SoonerPride Jul 2020 #3
Ginger Lurch! Wednesdays Jul 2020 #4
That too. 😝 SoonerPride Jul 2020 #5
TY Sen Duckworth! This will NOT go down the Cha Jul 2020 #6
*shock* What an image! ffr Jul 2020 #8
I know.. Cha Jul 2020 #10
The draft-dodging Republican President does not want an inquiry Champp Jul 2020 #7
Fucker is Busted & he's Lividly After the Leaker! Cha Jul 2020 #9
That's incredibly potent. Stars And Stripe is still the paper active and veterans visit for real erronis Jul 2020 #11
They are always diverting tavernier Jul 2020 #12
Get the answer under oath safeinOhio Jul 2020 #13
Great Post..K and R..This ain't a game..Life & Death..Trump Ignored, and Trump Goes Down Stuart G Jul 2020 #14
Yay! BigOleDummy Jul 2020 #15
I don't know how many here can recall some pictures taken during the Vietnam War Ford_Prefect Jul 2020 #16
and Esper replied...... onethatcares Jul 2020 #17

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. Keep after this
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 03:52 PM
Jul 2020

I know Sen. Duckworth doesn't need to be told, but mercy! A lot of news outlets seem to have forgotten all about this. Sure, there is a lot of crap flying around all day every day, but this story seems like it could be important on several levels.

SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)
3. God I love her. How I wish she were my senator.
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 03:52 PM
Jul 2020

Instead of those embarrassments Inhofe and the ginger Lurch

Champp

(2,114 posts)
7. The draft-dodging Republican President does not want an inquiry
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 04:36 PM
Jul 2020

He, and his fellow Republican shitheels, and his Russian pals, want this whole sordid affair to be buried in firehose flood of irrelevant propaganda and evasion.

Cha

(297,378 posts)
9. Fucker is Busted & he's Lividly After the Leaker!
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 04:43 PM
Jul 2020


trump expects people to believe the Intelligence community treats him like a gd mushroom.. kept in the dark and fed Shite.. because that's what he DOES.

erronis

(15,306 posts)
11. That's incredibly potent. Stars And Stripe is still the paper active and veterans visit for real
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 05:00 PM
Jul 2020

information. I know they are independent and have been harassed by this bone-spur administration.

They reach a lot of people, especially vets - older, mainly white, mainly males.

When these vets get motivated, there's no PR campaign by the WH/pascale/fux-news that will change their minds. Fux will lose almost all of its viewers!

tavernier

(12,393 posts)
12. They are always diverting
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 05:08 PM
Jul 2020


I’m so proud of Tammy for staying on top of it!

She’s like a tenacious little bulldog,
standing up for our troops and their families.

BigOleDummy

(2,272 posts)
15. Yay!
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 05:56 PM
Jul 2020

At least Sen. Duckworth is keeping this alive. I've been totally dismayed that its been allowed to sink under the horizon both as a veteran and as an American.

Ford_Prefect

(7,905 posts)
16. I don't know how many here can recall some pictures taken during the Vietnam War
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 06:06 PM
Jul 2020

of a group of uniformed men each wearing human ears in a necklace around their necks. The ears were supposed proof of a VC kill. The soldiers were a Special Forces unit attached to the 101st Airborne division and were known as Tiger Force.

I do not know that Tiger Force were paid extra for each pair of ears. I heard that a similar practice was said to have occurred in Africa during 1950s when Kenya fought the UK for independence. British special forces were used to hunt rebellious Mau-Mau and proof of a kill was the ears.

The idea that substantial reward would have no effect on attacks against US troops, or that courtroom quality, jury proof, evidence could be the only measure is ludicrous. The Russians are rather particular that they get value for money. So if the money was there it was paid for a reason and a result.

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