https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1277797711094394885
The Defense Department said late Monday that there is “no corroborating evidence” to support the explosive New York Times report last week that said the Russian military offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
The report sent shock waves through Washington and prompted President Trump to outright deny knowing anything about the intel cited in the report.
“To date, DOD has no corroborating evidence to validate the recent allegations found in open-source reports. Regardless, we always take the safety and security of our forces in Afghanistan—and around the world—most seriously and therefore continuously adopt measures to prevent harm from potential threats,” Jonathan Hoffman, the chief Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement.
The New York Times, citing unnamed officials, reported Friday that it is believed that some “Islamist militants” or “criminal elements” collected payouts. The report pointed out that 20 Americans were killed there in 2019. It was not clear if any of those deaths were the result of a bounty.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pentagon-says-no-corroborating-evidence-to-stand-up-nyt-report-on-russian-bounties
30 Jun 2020
The Associated Press | By The Associated Press
LONDON — A British judge said Monday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange must attend his next court hearing unless he can provide medical evidence to support his absence.
Lawyers for Assange said he could not attend the latest hearing on his U.S. extradition case by video link from prison for medical reasons.
District Judge Vanessa Baraitser set another hearing date of July 27 and said Assange must appear “unless there is medical evidence” to explain his non-attendance.
The 48-year-old Australian has been indicted in the U.S. on 18 charges over the publication of classified documents. Prosecutors say he conspired with U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to crack a password, hack into a Pentagon computer and release secret diplomatic cables and military files on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Last week the U.S. Justice Department added a new, superseding, indictment that alleges Assange conspired with members of hacking organizations and sought to recruit hackers to provide WikiLeaks with classified information. The indictment does not add any new charges, but broadens the allegations against Assange.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/06/30/uk-judge-warns-assange-us-extradition-hearing-attendance.html
The current director of policy at Reddit, Jessica Ashooh, arrived at the tech platform from her post at the George Soros-funded left-wing globalist agitation group The Atlantic Council. Ashooh’s Soros ties are especially relevant in light of Reddit’s mass purge of subreddits that supposedly promote “hate,” including The Donald subreddit, which traditionally was the main platform for Trump supporters on the site.
“Jessica Ashooh…has been leading the charge to shut down the Q Anon movement on the Reddit platform. The Great Awakening, the second-largest pro-Trump subreddit, was banned Tuesday night in a move that has rocked the online community.
More than 30 covert left-wing actors have been identified in the censorship Plot, which includes posing as Trump supporters to post intentionally offensive content and flagging it. Some of these activists are linked to Media Matters and the ACLU. An employee of CBS has been identified as a member of the plot but denies involvement. Top Reddit moderators continue to investigate the network of activists who are executing “Ban Out 2018,” an assault on Trump supporters.
Ashooh, overseeing policy at Reddit, is a veteran of George Soros’ Atlantic Council, where she served as deputy director of the Middle East Strategy Task Force as recently as the spring of 2017, when she moved to Reddit. The January 2017 David Brock meeting in Florida, where he laid out a social media censorship plan, kicked off a period of Silicon Valley aggression against the American people at just the time Ashooh was transferring from the Atlantic Council to Reddit. The Atlantic Council now works with Facebook to police independent news content on Mark Zuckerberg’s social media platform.
https://nationalfile.com/reddit-policy-director-is-recent-soros-official-who-led-charge-against-qanon/