Did Russia’s GRU military intelligence service pay the Taliban bounties to kill American military personnel in Afghanistan? It’s unclear. The intelligence community has given neither former President Donald Trump or President Joe Biden a high confidence assessment that such incidents occurred. But that’s not the end of the story.

For the CIA in particular, this is very much an open matter.

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