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The C.I.A. is expanding its covert operations in Afghanistan, sending small teams of highly experienced officers and contractors alongside Afghan forces to hunt and kill Taliban militants across the country ...This is not going to be a counter-insurgency campaign, even when some will assert that. A counter-insurgency campaign requires political, security, economic, and informational components. It can only be successful in support of a legitimate authority.
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The C.I.A.'s expanded role will augment missions carried out by military units, meaning more of the United States' combat role in Afghanistan will be hidden from public view.
Comment: Unverifiable at this point, but all of the above is plausible. Slowly, details of the concerted campaign to destroy Trump are coming to light. The focus is currently on the dodgy dossier research that seems to have been the justification for a lot of the surveillance of Trump and his campaign team - as well as the surveillance itself and the unmasking of Trump-related individuals at the behest of Samantha Power or someone using her authority. (Clinton-Russia collusion is just icing on the cake of hypocrisy.) See: