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b_b · 1612 days ago · link · · parent · post: Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says
I just read a longish profile of Fiona Hill in the new Yorker. In it, she describes is decent detail how individuals inside the administration leak things to the press for the sole purpose of making other individuals look bad to the president, not to the public. They use the press to backstab each other without any regard to the public responsibility of either the government or the media. I'm sure this has been done in the past, but I'm also sure it's never been weaponized this way.