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We mentioned the murder of the afghan policewoman, and the fact the taliban is denying any kind of involvement, although people locally are blaming taliban fighters. there is a difference between what the commanders in kabul say, and the authority and the cohesion i suppose. this could be a case of plausible deniability. there have been reports that female judges and police officers were receiving threats, and the taliban would like the world to believe they have changed and offering amnesty to ...

Dont think the taliban seem equipped to handle that in a way that would be acceptable to the afghan population or those who do not subscribe to their view of how it should be governed. view of how it should be governed-— view of how it should be governed. view of how it should be coverned. ~ ., governed. we mentioned the murder of the _ governed. we mentioned the murder of the policewoman, | governed. we mentioned the - murder of the policewoman, and the fact that alabama is denying any kind o...

Kimberley Strassel and Gregg Jarrett join ‘Hannity’ to react to claims about the Democratic nominee on ‘Hannity’ Joe Biden and his presidential campaign are staying mum after Hunter Biden’s former business associate went public to say he met twice in the past with the former vice president — despite past statements from Biden on the campaign trail that he had no involvement with or discussions about his family’s overseas business ventures. That associate, Tony Bobulinski, gav...

Kept the cold war cold for four decades. there was no incentive to shoot first because you knew the retaliation would come and it would be devastating. but with cyber, this whole question of atribution. its almost impossible to know who is doing it and when you use these so-called nonstate actors, the shadowy groups, theres often a space or some distance between them and government. so putin will basically say, hey, i knew nothing about it. i had nothing to do with it. in the intelligence busine...

Intent. unfortunately, new york tools are not as good as federal tools. but, you know, what emily said is exactly right. you know, if trumps -- trump is -- goes out of his way to insert plausible deniability, a cover story into everything he says. like on the day of the riot. like with the michael cohen testimony before congress. but that doesnt get you off the hook, if -- if the prosecutors can, otherwise, prove that the person had the intent. so, there is lots of ways to do that. i mean, a gre...

It is called plausible deniability. covering your tracks. if we are going to do something can we cover our tracks by saying there is a reason arc plausible reason somebody else could have done it. it is plausible. >> it is also the basis for impeach. the articles of impeachment just approved by the house of representatives focused on a conversation, focused on a event that basically can be traced facebook the russians. the question beings -- the concern is what is the extent of russian influence...

President. listen to this. >> applying your common sense to this type of situation, youd think, of course, the president was acting through rudy giuliani. if the united statse of giulian create plausible deniability, i dont think it works because it doesnt make sense. >> what do you think, avalon? >> its clear from the testimony weve seen the president was referring contentious ukraine questions brought to him by his state department to rudy giuliani saying he understood his mind. he understood ...

>> there are a couple ways of addressing it. certainly one of the classic ways is simply saying, with all respect, i resign. thats something i cannot do. another way, and this is quite common in washington, as you all know very well, is to do confidential calls to the press. and thats what were seeing. were seeing increasingly the information leaking out of the white house, and i think thats designed in part to refer people to make sure they are okay with the law. >> yeah. and barbara, to robert...

Unlikely, more likely potentially from iraq, then that is, according to my sources, an additional message to the united states that their economy is vulnerable and that they want to be taken seriously and its not all about a meeting -- in fact, apparently according to my source, the supreme leader of iran doesnt want a meeting even though the treasury secretary steve mnuchin said president trump was willing to have a meeting no conditions with the iranian president. you have a lot of sort of mix...

Response from them. >> it is fascinating. i mean, just clarify for us here, why would putin want this private army, clarissa? >> i think theres a number of reasons, erica. primarily, this is an expendable cheap fighting force that can do any number of things. theyre not particularly skilled fighters, but they can guard oil fields or diamond mines, they can train local forces. they do whatever it is that needs to be done, but most importantly there is the element of plausible deniability, the kre...