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National Security Trump administration sanctions Russian spies, trolls over U.S. election interfere

Acadia said:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...3d931db7f68_story.html?utm_term=.6c87b88dd896

"The Trump administration on Thursday imposed fresh financial sanctions on Russian government hackers and spy agencies to punish Moscow for interfering in the 2016 presidential election and for a cyberattack against Ukraine and other countries that officials have characterized as “the most destructive and costly” in history.

Sanctions also were imposed on individuals known as “trolls” and Russian organizations that supported them in connection with the election interference.

The administration on Thursday also alerted the public that Russia is targeting the U.S. energy grid with computer malware that could potentially sabotage the systems.

The move seeks to deter Russia from tampering in this year’s midterm elections and is intended to signal that the United States will not allow Russian aggression in cyberspace to go unchallenged.

“The administration is confronting and countering malign Russian cyber activity, including their attempted interference in U.S. elections, destructive cyberattacks, and intrusions targeting critical infrastructure,” said Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin. “These targeted sanctions are a part of a broader effort to address the ongoing nefarious attacks emanating from Russia.”"

I hope these sanctions will be sufficient enough to impact and disrupt Russian trolls who have been very successful in dividing Americans.
Way overdue.
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I'll wait to see if the whitehouse actually enforces said sanctions and how tough they actually are. I won't hold my breath.
 
" National Security Trump administration sanctions Russian spies, trolls over U.S. election interfere"

It's rather apt that the word "sanction" has a secondary meaning: a blessing or approval.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Well, I have to admit it was signed into law by leftist president Bush.
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Signed by? Hell it had as its major proponents people like Dianne Feinstein, Charles Schumer, and other prominent democrats right beside GOP members.
 
Khayembii Communique said:
Let's make it clear. This is not sanctions on Russia. This is "sanctions" on 19 Russian individuals and 5 Russian companies:



Remember that Congress passed sanctions against Russia and the Trump administration has refused to impose them.
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They only need to give the perception of doing anything for the trump idiots to believe it. God, these people are the worst. Just like his so called bombing in Syria where he basically bombed nothing, after warning of bombing. How stupid are these people?

He's firing everybody that speaks out against Russia in his administration, and he refused to put into place congress approved sanctions previously.
 
VanceMack said:
Signed by? Hell it had as its major proponents people like Dianne Feinstein, Charles Schumer, and other prominent democrats right beside GOP members.
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It was, indeed, a bipartisan attack on the fifth amendment.
 
What if...? said:
So not the Chinese or some fat kid in his mom's basement.

Too bad we didn't start addressing this when it first became obvious, huh?
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Yeah. Why didn't Obama do anything when he knew it was going on? He ordered them to stand down.
 
Acadia said:
Well, Trump was never going to win;)
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Exactly! If Hillary had won the election, Obama would have never booted any Russians out, closed any Russian compounds in the US, and never sanctioned Russia at all.
 
HERA the Stars said:
Well the issue here is not the US political system but the security of vital infrastructure that could have shut the entire country down. To me this hack of the energy, nuclear, commercial, water, aviation and manufacturing sectors substitute and attempted act of terrorism. Does this mean Russia have now turned into a state of terror while fighting terror, crazy times we live in.
What is desperately needed is more security for US infrastructure, I hope this is now being taken care of. I'm also concerned for many other western countries around the world, have the Russians infiltrated there? What is being done?
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Yup. This is what we need to concentrate on - stopping hacking from Russia, China, NK, and even criminals. If we don't, we are in a boatload of trouble. It is naive to just let things be and think that if we slap Russia's wrist they will change their ways and that doesn't even take into account the dangers of China, NK, and criminals. We need to stop all of them.
 
VanceMack said:
Signed by? Hell it had as its major proponents people like Dianne Feinstein, Charles Schumer, and other prominent democrats right beside GOP members.
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Shhhhhhhhhhsh. It's easier for him to just blindly accept liberal propaganda as truth.
 
Moderate Right said:
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Wasn't the patriot act in existence for eight years under Obama?
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Irrelevant.

You are claiming that Obama’s actions in enacting sactions on russia were based on partisanship.it did not matter who won or lost the election, the hacking that Russia engaged in was never going be tolerated.

The Magnitsky sanctions were already in existence prior to November of 2016.
 
Unitedwestand13 said:
Irrelevant.

You are claiming that Obama’s actions in enacting sactions on russia were based on partisanship.it did not matter who won or lost the election, the hacking that Russia engaged in was never going be tolerated.

The Magnitsky sanctions were already in existence prior to November of 2016.
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Obama DID tolerate it! He told everyone to stand down instead of doing anything! Then, after Hillary lost, he decided it was time to do something.
 
Unitedwestand13 said:
Irrelevant.

You are claiming that Obama’s actions in enacting sactions on russia were based on partisanship.it did not matter who won or lost the election, the hacking that Russia engaged in was never going be tolerated.

The Magnitsky sanctions were already in existence prior to November of 2016.
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What? That doesn't have a damn thing to do with Russian collusion to influence the elections. The whole world implemented sanctions on Russia for the Crimea thing too and the whole world removed those sanctions. You're really reaching for straws now.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Yes, and seven under Bush. It passed back in '01.
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Well then if Obama and the Democrats could have stopped the Act and didn't then you can't blame it on Republicans. For the record though, we needed the patriot act and that's why several leading Democrats voted for it and Obama and his administration kept it.
 
Moderate Right said:
Well then if Obama and the Democrats could have stopped the Act and didn't then you can't blame it on Republicans. For the record though, we needed the patriot act and that's why several leading Democrats voted for it and Obama and his administration kept it.
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Therefore it was the "left" who passed it.

That's so if you agree that Bush is a leftist. It wouldn't be too hard to make that case.
 
chuckiechan said:
Obama chose not to do anything about it. After Trump won, Obama expelled some diplomats. Obama was not a "doer".
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That is an outright ****ing lie.

Obama expelled 35 Diplomats, then imposed sanctions against Russia that trump had been trying to get overturned and seized two Russian compounds. And I'm sure if he weren't headed out the door he'd have done more.

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And we have another one pushing this lie:

Moderate Right said:
Yeah. Why didn't Obama do anything when he knew it was going on? He ordered them to stand down.
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he'd have have done more
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another reset button, another unilateral withdrawal of missile D from E europe (with nothing in return), a red line in syria that wasn't even pink, crimea, ukraine...

and that famous promise of flexibility which we were never sposed to hear

yeah, he'd have done more, alright
 
The Prof said:
another reset button, another unilateral withdrawal of missile D from E europe (with nothing in return), a red line in syria that wasn't even pink, crimea, ukraine...

and that famous promise of flexibility which we were never sposed to hear

yeah, he'd have done more, alright
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He did more than simply take Putin at his word that he didn't do it.
 
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