Trump Treasury relaxes sanctions on KGB (FSB) personnel

[yllus]

I'm sure a lot of news outlets will be talking about this shortly; looks like there was a directive from the Trump White House to ease up on financial sanctions against members of the Russian FSB (that is the renamed KGB).

Document: https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/cyber_gl1.pdf

America very badly needs its Congress to push to establish an independent commission to look into how and whom Russia has been in contact with before, during and after the election. This entirely unilateral move by the Trump White House should worry absolutely everyone.

 

[JSt0rm]

35% of our population is deep in the propaganda machine of the alt right. They wont worry about anything.

 

[jackstar7]

"Russia is not our enemy!" - countless President Snowflake defenders


Meanwhile:
Foreign policy insider: ‘No readout of Trump-Putin call because White House turned off recording’

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Seriously, what possible legitimate rationale could exist for this? It increasingly looks as though Trump is in the tank for Russia, for God knows what reason (the Steele report suggests some). Meanwhile, he can't conduct a civil phone call with the PM of Australia. Great governance, Mr. President!

 

[Capt Caveman]

Trump thanking the Russians for helping him win the election.

 

[K1052]

McCain is gonna be a touch upset.

Wonder if he'll torpedo a cabinet nominee in revenge.

 

[HomerJS]

So no recording of the call with Putin? But the Trump supporters will be fine with this too??

 

[Bitek]

Of course he did.

If you look at Trump's actions, I can't imagine Putin being any happier.

 

[UNCjigga]

So no recording of the call with Putin? But the Trump supporters will be fine with this too??

FAKE NEWS...there were recordings! They were just photos!!!

 

[jackstar7]

Interesting lack of defenders to the crown in this thread.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Interesting lack of defenders to the crown in this thread.

They haven't been told what to think yet. It's coming. I will bet it's in the form of "this is a routine tweaking to prevent unintended consequences" any minute now.

The unintended consequence being negatively impacting the Russian intelligence service.

 

[soundforbjt]

So no recording of the call with Putin? But the Trump supporters will be fine with this too??

The tape probably broke. Trump uses only the best technology.

 

[vi edit]

McCain is gonna be a touch upset.

Wonder if he'll torpedo a cabinet nominee in revenge.

Is there ever a tipping point where the spineless old fucks on the hill will ever put country over party and end this madness? He rage quit a phone call with Australia FFS.

 

[cytg111]

Here we go

 

[senseamp]

 

[ivwshane]

Is there ever a tipping point where the spineless old fucks on the hill will ever put country over party and end this madness? He rage quit a phone call with Australia FFS.

No.

 

[cytg111]

... He rage quit a phone call with Australia FFS.

- That was a good one.. Rage quit, lol...

 

[Pens1566]

Yeah, there's going to be a delay on a response until the talking points can be distributed out.

 

[K1052]

Is there ever a tipping point where the spineless old fucks on the hill will ever put country over party and end this madness? He rage quit a phone call with Australia FFS.

Well Trump did the one thing he explicitly said not to do. If not now then never.

 

[senseamp]

GOP needs to read up on where other populist Putin puppet parties end up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_of_Regions

 

[cytg111]

Is that legal? To turn those recordings off?

Anyway, its in the press now (FSB etc)
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/02/politics/treasury-sanctions-russian-intelligence-agency/index.html

At this point Arnold is looking good

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/arn...over-petty-apprentice-boasts-at-prayer-event/

 

[soundforbjt]

It does make that look more likely than not, he's been ranting about all our allies and not ONE bad word about Russia...hmmm

 

[Pens1566]

This taken along with reports of shouting down one of our closest allies really does seem to put things into (a scary) perspective. It's some combination of intent or rank incompetence. Your choice, but neither is good.

 

[Commodus]

Starting to think that even the die-hard Trump apologists are suspecting that something's wrong. There's just no good reason to ease sanctions on FSB members, and it looks extra-suspicious when you're doing it less than a month into your term.

 

[FIVR]

Sputnik news posted a story about this an hour before the request was even submitted to the treasury. I wonder how they got the scoop on Trump's latest order before the Treasury?


https://sputniknews.com/us/201702021050285359-us-sanctions-fsb/