Former US National Security Adviser Susan Rice criticized President Donald Trump's handling of intelligence that Russia offered rewards to militants linked to the Afghan Taliban in exchange for killing American soldiers in Afghanistan.
Rice, who held the post during the term of former President Barack Obama, said in an article for the New York Times - that Trump has not done anything so far with this information, but rather rejected it and considered it unreliable, and said it "may be another fabricated hoax against Russia and false news." Their goal is to show Republicans a bad look. "
And I questioned the credibility of the White House denial that President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence knew of this sensitive intelligence information before it was first published in the New York Times.
"If we put the credibility of this claim aside, why did the president not publicly condemn any Russian efforts to kill American soldiers when he was told this most disturbing intelligence, and he is exploring options for a quick American response," Rice asked.
She saw that what was happening was worrying and raised many questions about the reasons for Trump's reluctance to respond if he had already been informed of what Russia had done, and he also asked questions about the reasons for withholding that sensitive information from the president if he had not been told.
Lack of efficiency:
The former National Security Adviser asked whether it was due to Trump's lack of efficiency, or because they feared bad news for the President, especially about Russia, and she asked whether Trump ran a "rogue" foreign policy completely separate from national interests.
She also said that there is a dangerous and persistent pattern of events that underlines Trump's strange tendency to serve Russian interests at the expense of US interests.
On Friday, the New York Times quoted officials - whose identities were not revealed - that Trump in March reported the aforementioned intelligence, and British authorities were also informed of the same information.
The newspaper added that the Russian intelligence rewards motivated militants (linked to the Taliban) to target American forces in Afghanistan, at a time when the president seeks to withdraw those forces, satisfying one of the main demands of this movement in order to end the longest war in the United States.