Republican senators on Tuesday said reports on intelligence suggesting Russia may have offered bounties for the killing of American troops were portrayed wrong, saying the…
Republican senators on Tuesday said reports on intelligence suggesting Russia may have offered bounties for the killing of American troops were portrayed wrong, saying the intelligence wasn’t conclusive or verified.
Major newspapers “reported on unverified and inconclusive intelligence as though it had been conclusively determined that Russia paid bounties on U. S. troops,” Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) said at the U. S. Capitol after taking part in a briefing on the intelligence.
Some senators received a briefing from Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien, and other officials at the White House earlier in the day.
The intelligence has “long been available,” Young added, charging that every member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence should have been aware of it.
