RUSSIA/РОССИЯ THREAD—ASSANGE CHRGD W/ SPYING—DJT IMPEACHED TWICE-US TREASURY SANCTS KILIMNIK AS RUSSIAN AGNT
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Neither do I, clown. :mjplsufedup:
But please, don't let me interrupt your day. You can kindly go f*ck yourself after you're done dikkriding Jeff Sessions and IG Horowitz.:denzelcmonson:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...3ad4f8-417f-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html
Trump puts the brakes on new Russian sanctions, reversing Haley’s announcement
by Philip Rucker, Carol D. Leonnig, Anton Troianovski and Greg Jaffe
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley raises her hand to veto a Russian proposed draft resolution during a U.N. Security Council meeting concerning Syria on April 14, 2018. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
President Trump on Monday put the brakes on a preliminary plan to impose additional economic sanctions on Russia, walking back a Sunday announcement by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley that the Kremlin had swiftly denounced as “international economic raiding.”
Preparations to punish Russia anew for its support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government over the alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria caused consternation at the White House. Haley said on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” that sanctions on Russian companies behind the equipment related to Assad’s alleged chemical weapons attack would be announced Monday by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
But as officials in Moscow condemned the planned sanctions as overly punitive, Trump conferred with his national security advisers later Sunday and told them he was upset the sanctions were being officially rolled out because he was not yet comfortable executing them, according to several people familiar with the plan.:whatyoumean:
Administration officials said the economic sanctions were under serious consideration, along with other measures that could be taken against Russia, but said Trump had not given final authorization to implement them. Administration officials said Monday it was unlikely Trump would approve any additional sanctions without another triggering event by Russia, describing the strategy as being in a holding pattern.
Sometime after Haley’s comments on CBS, the Trump administration notified the Russian Embassy in Washington that the sanctions were not in fact coming, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said Monday.:50centscust:
The Trump team decided to publicly characterize Haley’s announcement as a misstatement. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement Monday: “We are considering additional sanctions on Russia and a decision will be made in the near future.”
How Trump, a reluctant hawk, has battled his top aides on Russia and lost]
Privately, another White House official said Haley got ahead of herself and made “an error that needs to be mopped up.”
But other administration officials expressed skepticism that Haley had merely misspoken. They said Haley is one of the most disciplined and cautious members of the Cabinet, especially when it comes to her public appearances. She regularly checks in with Trump personally to go over her planned statements before she sits for television interviews.:rambling:
Haley issued no clarifying statement on Sunday after news organizations, including The Washington Post, reported prominently that the new sanctions would be announced Monday based on her comments to CBS.
Asked Monday morning why it had taken 24 hours for the administration to walk back Haley’s comments, one White House official said only that there had been confusion internally about what the plan was.
Doubting the intelligence, Trump pursues Putin and leaves a Russian threat unchecked]
Early in the Trump administration there were conflicts between Haley’s team and the president on Russia. Shortly after Trump’s inauguration, Haley delivered a speech at the United Nations that recommitted the White House to the Obama administration’s policy on sanctions related to Russian aggression in Ukraine. The speech was cleared by David Cattler, then a senior official on the National Security Council, but the remarks frustrated Trump, who demanded to know who had approved them.
“Lots of people got yelled at — some by the president,” said a U.S. official at the United Nations. Cattler, in turn, was pushed out of his job a couple of weeks later in a reorganization of the NSC by McMaster.
White House officials said Trump has been impressed with Haley lately, particularly her remarks about Syria over the past week, and stressed Monday that the president holds her in high regard.
In the absence of a permanent secretary of state, Haley has been the face of American diplomacy, playing an especially prominent role over the past week as the Trump administration responded to the attack in Syria.
Haley said Sunday on CBS, “You will see that Russian sanctions will be coming down. Secretary Mnuchin will be announcing those on Monday, if he hasn’t already. And they will go directly to any sort of companies that were dealing with equipment related to Assad and chemical weapons used. And so I think everyone is going to feel it at this point. I think everyone knows that we sent a strong message, and our hope is that they listen to it.”
The Russians were listening. After Haley’s comments, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow that the sanctions were a U.S. ploy to oust Russia from international markets and constituted “undisguised attempts of unfair competition.”
[Trump tries to appear strong on Syria even as he prepares to withdraw]
“The sanction campaign against Russia is truly assuming the nature of an obsessive idea,” Peskov said, according to the Interfax news agency. “We still do not see these sanctions as lawful. We see them as going against international law.”
Peskov added, “Certainly, this cannot have any relation to and cannot be motivated by considerations of the situation in Syria or any other country . . . I would call this international economic raiding rather than something else.”
But after the Kremlin got word through Russia’s embassy in Washington that the sanctions would not be coming, there was a subtle shift in Moscow toward a less confrontational tone, even as officials continued to slam U.S. sanctions as veiled attempts at gaining economic advantage.:PutinTrollFace:
Russian lawmakers were crowing Friday that they were going to make the United States pay for already imposed sanctions, potentially by blocking American imports or U.S.-Russian aerospace cooperation or allowing Russians to violate U.S. intellectual property rights. Russia, one top lawmaker promised, was going to “hit the Americans in the gut.”
But on Monday, senior lawmakers in the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, decided to hold off until May 15 before considering any counter-sanctions against the United States. Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said the Duma needed to meet with experts and the business community first.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov also urged calm.
“Let’s first wait until these sanctions are implemented,” Ryabkov said in reference to possible new U.S. sanctions, Interfax reported. “We have to see what will be announced, at what scale, and who or what will become the targets of these sanctions.”
Troianovski reported from Moscow. Shane Harris, John Hudson and Ashley Parker contributed to this report.
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ELLEN NAKASHIMA WITH THE EXCLUSIVE!
ELLEN NAKASHIMA WITH THE EXCLUSIVE!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...6fda6b404c7_story.html?utm_term=.c1aa3bba0bb5
U.S., British governments say Russia has hacked routers used by businesses globally
By Ellen Nakashima
The U.S. and British governments on Monday accused Russia of conducting a massive campaign to compromise computer routers and firewalls around the world — from home offices to Internet providers — for espionage and possibly sabotage purposes.
The unusual public warning from the White House, U.S. agencies and Britain’s National Cyber Security Center results from monitoring the threat dating back more than a year. It was the two countries’ first such joint alert.
“We have high confidence that Russia has carried out a coordinated campaign to compromise ... routers, residential and business — the things you and I have in our home,” said Rob Joyce, the White House cybersecurity coordinator.
Officials say millions of users worldwide have been targeted.
[Trump administration hits Russian spies, trolls with sanctions over U.S. election interference, cyberattacks]
“We condemn the actions and hold the Kremlin responsible for the malicious activities,” said Jeannette Manfra, the chief cybersecurity official for the Department of Homeland Security.
The move is unrelated to the administration’s recent strikes in Syria, which Russia condemned. Rather it is part of a broader ongoing effort by the U.S. government to call out bad behavior in cyberspace and impose costs as a deterrent.
“When we see malicious cyber activity, whether it be from the Kremlin or other malicious actors, we’re going to push back,” said Joyce.
Monday’s announcement is the latest in a series of related moves by the Trump administration, which in recent months has publicly blamed Russia for launching the NotPetya worm that’s been characterized as the costliest and most destructive cyber attack in history. It also recently publicized that Russia had targeted the U.S. energy grid with computer malware and slapped fresh sanctions on Russian hackers for illicit cyber activity.
The U.S. government also has obtained indictments against Iranian hackers, and accused North Korea of being behind the WannaCry computer worm that affected more than 230,000 computers around the world.
The U.S. and British governments jointly tracked the latest campaign, which has targeted millions of machines globally, said Ciaran Martin, chief executive officer of Britain’s NCSC, the government’s central cybersecurity agency.
The aim seems to be to “seize control” over the machines that connect networks to the Internet, and in the case of Internet providers, to gain access to their customers, for espionage or other purposes, he said.
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These network devices make “ideal targets,” Manfra said. Most traffic within a company or between organizations traverses them. So a hacker can monitor, modify or disrupt it, she said. And they’re usually not secured at the same level as a network server.
“Once you own the router you own the traffic that’s traversing the router,” she said.
The agencies, which include the FBI, do not know how many routers, firewalls and switches have been compromised and to what extent. They are seeking the cooperation of home office and private sector business owners in sharing information if they determine their networks have been compromised.
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U.S. Attorneys officially arguing against Trump in a public setting.
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She had money on the table
Top notch hoes got the most
not the lesser 
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that little cigar smoking session looked like one of those get together someone has before a long bid or something more permanent 