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В продолжение вчерашней записи "Is he mad at Putin?"

В той записи я приводил утверждение Трампа и нынешнего DNI о том, что Трампа не поставили в известность.

С тех пор много чего произошло.

Во-первых, NYT сообщил: Trump Got Written Briefing in February on Possible Russian Bounties, Officials Say
American officials provided a written briefing in late February to President Trump laying out their conclusion that a Russian military intelligence unit offered and paid bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill U.S. and coalition troops in Afghanistan, two officials familiar with the matter said.

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The new information emerged as the White House tried on Monday to play down the intelligence assessment that Russia sought to encourage and reward killings — including reiterating a claim that Mr. Trump was never briefed about the matter and portraying the conclusion as disputed and dubious.

But that stance clashed with the disclosure by two officials that the intelligence was included months ago in Mr. Trump’s President’s Daily Brief document — a compilation of the government’s latest secrets and best insights about foreign policy and national security that is prepared for him to read. One of the officials said the item appeared in Mr. Trump’s brief in late February; the other cited Feb. 27, specifically.

Moreover, a description of the intelligence assessment that the Russian unit had carried out the bounties plot was also seen as serious and solid enough to disseminate more broadly across the intelligence community in a May 4 article in the C.I.A.’s World Intelligence Review, a classified compendium commonly referred to as The Wire, two officials said.
AP добавляет подробности:
The assessment was included in at least one of President Donald Trump’s written daily intelligence briefings at the time, according to the officials. Then-national security adviser John Bolton also told colleagues he briefed Trump on the intelligence assessment in March 2019.

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Bolton declined to comment Monday when asked by the AP if he had briefed Trump about the matter in 2019.
DNI сегодня запостил новое заявление:



Также свое заявление через несколько минут сделала и директор ЦРУ:



P.S. Забыл добавить. Есть шанс, что Трамп в этот раз не врет, когда говорит, что не знал этой информации, поскольку он не читает письменные брифинги.

И, наверное, уже никто не удивится, что и на этот случай there is a tweet:

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