RUSSIA/РОССИЯ THREAD—ASSANGE CHRGD W/ SPYING—DJT IMPEACHED TWICE-US TREASURY SANCTS KILIMNIK AS RUSSIAN AGNT
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The Fukin Prophecy
RIP Champ
Unfortunately there are too many people attached to this shyt to let it die...
This will all be forgotten in a few months...
If the government slaps them with fines it may be a wrap though...
Facebook can be fined for every user whose data was compromised...
87 million could potentially be a billion dollar fine...
DonKnock
KPJ Gonna Save Us
The issues seem to be with minimum wages, implementation of “trickle down”, and upper echelon tax evasion/inversion rather than the actual untarrifed exchange of goods
yeah, somebody is pushing the buttons to make this happen.
this is an important question.
Mercer is the mastermind
Trump asked CIA official why drone strike didn’t also kill target’s family: report
Morgan Gstalter04/06/18 08:03 AM EDT
President Trump reportedly asked a CIA official why the agency didn’t kill a terrorist target's family during a drone strike.
The Washington Post reported Thursday that, after watching a recorded video of a drone strike in Syria in which officials waited until the target was outside of his family’s home, Trump asked, “Why did you wait?”
The agency’s head of drone operations explained to an “unimpressed” Trump there are techniques to limit the number of civilian casualties.
Trump called for the CIA to start arming its drones in Syria and reportedly asked for it to be started in days.
“If you can do it in 10 days, get it done,” Trump said in a meeting, according to two former officials.
Rules from the Obama administration limit the CIA’s ability to use surveillance flights.
The goal of Trump’s predecessor was to pull back the CIA to return to its core espionage mission and let the military take out terrorists, the Post reported.
Trump has advocated for swift military action to “knock the hell out of” Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) forces.
Trump said on the campaign trail in 2015 that he would “take out” the families of terrorists.
"When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives, don't kid yourself. But they say they don't care about their lives. You have to take out their families,” Trump previously said.
On Tuesday, Trump signaled that he wanted to pull the roughly 2,000 U.S. troops out of Syria but then reluctantly backtracked a day later. He reportedly agreed to hold off until ISIS is defeated.
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GnauzBookOfRhymes
Superstar
TPP failed bc the administration and its supporters tried to rush it before anyone knew what it was.
:ALERTRED::ALERTRED::ALERTRED:
Kremlin discussed support for Maria Butina as she visited NRA headquarters in 2014
Exclusively obtained photos show Sheriff Clarke and NRA leaders drinking with Russian politicians and Putin confidants in 2015
Scott StedmanApr 6
Leaked 2014 text messages from Kremlin officials have shown that the Russian government was discussing support for the woman whose outreach to NRA members has drawn scrutiny from Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Maria Butina, a Russian national and deputy to the scandal-plagued Alexander Torshin, has garnered attention from US investigators as they probe whether any Russian money flowed to the NRA in support of then-candidate Trump. The duo’s outreach to gun-rights activists in the United States dates back to 2011 when Torshin attended his first NRA convention.
Butina has insisted that her pro-gun group The Right to Bear Arms is entirely independent from any Kremlin backing.
“Hey. Help please,” reads a May, 2014 text message from Marika Korotaeva, a Kremlin official to her boss Timur Prokopenko. “Butina (for legalization of weapons)…now posts pictures with the President of the US gunsmiths now at the main office in Virginia. Against the background of statements about the supply of arms to Ukraine. I ask your help.”
Butina with former NRA President David Keene in 2014. This tweet caught the attention of the Kremlin as it debated whether to support Butina’s efforts.
Prokopenko serves as the head of the Internal Politics department in President Putin’s administration. Russian hackers known as “Humpty Dumpty” released Prokopenko’s text messages to various journalists in Europe and elsewhere. These messages were then exclusively shared and verified via open-source information.
It is unclear what action, if any, the Russian government took to support Butina. She could not be reached for comment.
Among the various activities undertaken by Butina that have caught the eye of investigators is the incorporation of a South Dakota company called “Bridges, LLC” in February, 2016. Records show that the company was established by Butina and conservative activist Paul Erickson. In a phone interview last year with McClatchy, Erickson claimed that the firm was established in case Butina needed any monetary assistance for her graduate studies.
Documents filed with the South Dakota Secretary of State indicate that Butina and Erickson paid an extra fee to have the company’s incorporation expedited. It remains unknown why the two found it necessary to hasten the process.
The NRA has recently insisted that the only money it has taken from any Russians was Torshin’s membership dues, which amounted to less than $1,000. Stephen Hart, outside counsel to the NRA, told ABC News, “I know this is difficult but the political arm of the NRA has not ever accepted foreign contributions. That is illegal.” Hart said. “They cannot disclose what does not exist.”:conceitedsideeye:
A spokesman for the Special Counsel’s office declined to comment on their ongoing investigation.
Nah zda-rovh-yeh!
Newly obtained photos from the NRA delegation’s trip to Moscow in December 2015 offer a behind-the-scenes look at the relationship forged by Russian officials and American gun-rights activists in the lead up to the 2016 election.
The images, taken at a party thrown by Russian politician Alexander Torshin at a Moscow hunting club, show American gun-rights leaders including Sheriff David Clarke, drinking and laughing with the Russians. The American delegation consisted of the aforementioned Clarke, NRA Presidents Pete Brownell and David Keene, NRA funders Arnold and Hilary Goldschlager, the Outdoor Channel’s Jim and Kim Liberatore and others. Hosting them were Torshin and leading Russian journalist Pavel Gusev, who has not been previously reported as taking part in any of the NRA activities in Moscow.
Full group including NRA funder Arnold Goldschlager, NRA President Pete Brownell, David Keene, Maria Butina, Sheriff Clarke, Alexander Torshin
Clarke, Gusev, Keene
The presence of Gusev, the head of the Moscow Journalists’ Union, is an important new chapter in the relationship between the NRA and Kremlin allies. Gusev was appointed by Vladimir Putin as a “trustee” or trusted confidant for his campaign in the 2018 Russian elections. This appointment is a recognition of Putin’s most ardent supporters and people he trusts to appear on television and other campaign events in his place.
According to Ilya Zaslavskiy, the Head of Research at the Free Russia Foundation, a US non-profit, the group of trusted confidants usually consists of around five hundred “cultural figures and celebrities who meet [Putin] and get televised as his supporters.” These representatives are trusted by Putin himself and are often rewarded with “various small and not so small privileges after elections,” according to Zaslavskiy.
Zaslavskiy noted that Gusev can sometimes be mildly critical of the Kremlin but remains “definitely a pro-regime guy.”
At the time of the party with NRA officials, Gusev was the Chairman of the Public Counsel at the Russian Defense Ministry. In his role as Chairman of the public face of the Russian military, Gusev serves directly under Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu. Widely seen as a potential heir to Putin, Shoigu is considered an inner-circle fixture in the Kremlin.
Putin with Defense Minister Shoigu
The leaked text messages and the inclusion of a Putin confidant at a party celebrating the NRA’s trip to Moscow raises new questions about the Kremlin’s involvement in courting the Americans. In his testimony to the House Intelligence Committee, Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson made a point to mention Torshin and Butina. “It appears the Russians,” Simpson said, “infiltrated the NRA.”
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It had to be done that way
Laymen started talking and fukked it up cause they dont understand geopolitics
Dorian Breh
Veteran
TPP has some pretty questionable anti-consumerist policies, breh. Nothing compared to the current admin bullshyt. You dont have to stan everything they tried to do.
Could it be that he was the subject approached at the airport and Trump wanted to get ahead of Mueller so as not to appear weak? I'm not convinced the timing was a coincidence
Fits most boxes, excpet the one where it still implicate Dotard Jr. as he was the likely person who met with him.
Unless Trump doesnt mind throwing him under the bus...