“It may now be impossible to get to the bottom of this because some government official somewhere decided to leak allegations before we had a chance to get to the bottom of it.â€
Given that the allegations of Russians paying bounties to Taliban for killing US servicemen are even accurate,
Someone who was privy to classified information figured it was worth fouling up attempts to get more information and specifics on any players who might be involved just so they could run to the New York Times and have something to throw in the POTUS' face.
This is partisanship over Country.
Someone needs to be stripped of their clearance and charged.
To some this may seem like a 'gotcha!", but to anyone paying attention, this person has just put their political issues ahead of the well-being of our servicemen.
I do not have words which can be published here to describe the level of contempt I have for that, and no mere invective would be sufficient.