I also dug into the "American intelligence" claim that is now echoed like a fact both by Indians and American media.
I already knew it traces back to this statement of a small Amerian website doing mostly shady infomercials (i.e. paid advertisements for products written to look like news articles) and an author called Paul Shinkman himself. Unsurprisingly with a history of writing lazy anti-China propaganda for clickbait.
So without the euphemistic speech thats means
someone anonymous told this fake journalist from usnews.com that they are
familiar with what
U.S. intelligence thinks.
The article carefully does not claim that this info is necessarily real U.S. intelligence
The article carefully does not claim that this info is necessarily from U.S. intelligence agencies.
The article carefully does not claim to have any evidence that its true.
What I didnt heed enough attention the last time is this part in their report:
That is the claim Indian propaganda fabricated and only Indians touted at this point.
So their anonymous source claiming to know what" U.S. intelligence" thinks, was also peddling the Indian "Chinese intelligence leak confirming 43 Chinese deaths" propaganda lie pushed out by ANI.