Cyber-Related Sanctions Designations
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According to Brian Krebs, the people named here have been on the FBI's most-wanted list for a long time.
Does it even matter if Trump is so soft on Russia? Won't he just revert this decision in January?
He might, but now that the ball is in motion, it's the difference between him just doing nothing and letting it get swept under the rug, and him explicitly killing an active investigation against the recommendations of his intelligence organizations. It'll look a lot worse for him to do so.
It sounds like you're both complaining that the government is doing anything about cyber attacks, while also complaining that it hasn't done enough about cyber attacks.
Suspicious timing? What's suspicious? Absolutely it's related to the formal sanctions of the US against Russia—what could that possibly be apart from politics?
"Suspicious timing" is a perfect term for the distinct election-cycle correlate ratcheting-up of verbal belligerence coming from certain Washington Mil/Intel sectors of unproven allegations involving Russians and just about every malfeasance in current existence... (the dog ate my homework)
I'm no Trump supporter, nor Republican supporter in general, but let me make absolutely clear that the Democratic party is as tied to the American War-n-Empire machine as the Republican party. Kennedy, despite his youthful charm, sent as many(or more) men of his own age or less to their death in Vietnam (to say nothing of Vietnamese casualties) as Nixon did. Clinton, Kerry, Feinstein, et al (the Senate Intel committee members certainly) are in lockstep march with the military machine, and indeed partially constitute it, on the political support side. Make no mistake: "liberals" who beat the war drum have blood on their hands, despite the domestic spin that their social policies provide. The total lack of global perspective and introspection regarding this Washington Insider fake left, fake humanitarian (LGBQT-friendly cluster bombs anyone?) pseudoliberal establishment fools very few people outside of the American Media Bubble.
Clinton, Kerry, Feinstein, et al, also voted for both the Patriot Act (granting various nefarious and secret powers, totally unconstitutional on many levels...) and the Iraq War resolution...
Let me be very clear: The WaPo and the NY-Times were some of the primary news sources spouting the WMD in Iraq nonsense that led to G.W. Bushs ill-advised 2003 invasion. They are a source of fake news.
Let's cut the crap: Our Nobel-Peace-Prize winning president has us bombing 7 countries currently, that we have no declared wars with, by the way. He has not returned any of his predecessors ill-gotten powers, but rather has expanded them. In a way, it's fitting that Trump, as an impulsive dangerously juvenile "man", is the one to inherit the car keys as it's a perfect example of WHY we shouldn't be granting absolute power and "total informational awareness" to our already "out of check/balance" executive branch.
I'm not one of those "constitutional fundamentalists", but its obvious as the nose on my face that the executive branch today has far more power than it was intended to: 1) every single armed force 2) every single intel agency foreign and domestic (and they don't stick to one or the other anymore)
TL;DR: America is still behind it's cold-war "golden curtain" and continues to prosecute global empire and domination-based policies using foreign bogeymen to sway the populace into action they otherwise would be too comfortable to support.
As an American currently residing in Europe it is clear to me that the snarky spin bubble created by hipster-friendly approaches to media is still part of the same propaganda machine. You can hire some PR specialists to California-up the image, but its the same stinky bastard at the controls...
I have loads of friends in both Kiev and Moscow and the whole thing stinks.
we (USA) stirred up the Maidan (CIA) in the first place, and aided in deposing Yanukovych and installing Poroshenko.
The Crimean residents have largely been dual or Russian passport holders since WW2 anyway. It used to be full of Tatars, until Catherine the Great imported loyal Slovaks to help send them packing to central Asia, as there were loyalty issues vs the Ottomans.
In any case, the whole "Russia is not gay friendly!" propaganda started to be emitted around that time... (as if traditional Slavic society was any different in Poland or Ukraine? as if Matthew Shepard wasn't beaten to death naked tied to a fence post in Wyoming USA...)
I don't get this statement. Are you saying you don't believe the intelligence reports? Or, are you saying that we should do nothing, even if true?
Assuming those orgs even remotely resemble the same things they are now after inauguration. Clinton gutted the CIA after he got into office.
Do you really think Donald Trump cares if it will look worse for him?
Had an acquaintance who had the misfortune on traveling with a fairly fresh passport while sharing a name with some one on the list he was held for 6 hours at O'Hare for winning that lottery.