Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Tuesday defended his department’s implementation of a bipartisan Russia sanctions law, vowing to senators that “there will be sanctions” stemming from the Trump administration’s work. Mnuchin’s remarks come amid rising frustration from Democrats over the administration’s decision Monday to delay the issuance of new penalties targeting Moscow’s defense and intelligence […]
Schumer to Trump Administration: Who Met with Putin’s Spy Chief?…
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is demanding to know whether anyone in the Trump administration met with a top Russian spy who visited the United States, after the Russian embassy said he had taken part in discussions on combating terrorism. “The Trump administration must immediately come clean and answer questions: which U.S. officials did […]
Whoa: Russian Jet Comes Within 5 Feet of U.S. Navy Plane Over Black Sea…
A Russian fighter on Monday flew within 5 feet of a U.S. Navy reconnaissance plane over the Black Sea, marking another close encounter that American military officials contend increases the risk of midair collisions. A Russian SU-27 crossed directly into the flight path of a Navy EP-3 and forced the U.S. aircraft to fly through […]
10 Solid Reasons the Dutch-Russia Hacking Story Is Fake News…
It was breathlessly announced today by that pillar of independent news sources, US intelligence contractor Eric Garland, that the Dutch possess incontrovertible proof that Russia indeed hacked the US election. Citing an article in a Dutch publication, Garland let fly with a series of narrative tweets with screenshots of a translation of the article, to […]
The Decline and Fall of General Electric, the Poster Child of Obamanomics…
Sometimes we look back a decade or so and reconsider our word choice. For instance, I used to call General Electric — with its heavy lobbying, its intimate ties to the White House, all its bets on green energy, on embryonic stem cells, on Obamacare, on industrial policy — the “for-profit arm of the Obama […]
Treasury Sanctions More Than 30 People, Firms Involved in Russia’s Annexing of Crimea…
The Treasury Department on Friday targeted 21 individuals and nine entities with financial sanctions for their support of Russia’s occupation of the Crimea region of Ukraine. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), which administers sanctions, banned more than a dozen Russian government officials, Russian business executives and Ukrainian separatist leaders involved with Russia’s occupation. […]
Top Senate Democrat: The House Intel Memo Is Sloppy And Baseless. Also, I’ve Not Read It…
It Looks Like the ‘James Bond’ Behind the Dossier Let a Putin Pawn Do All the Work…
Virtually all of the credibility of the so-called Steele dossier — and the Trump-Russia collusion narrative and investigations it spawned — hinges on Christopher Steele’s vaunted reputation as a former British intelligence agent who spied on Moscow and still maintains a network of sources inside the Kremlin. But now we are finding out from newly […]
Special Counsel Mueller Sends List of Questions to Pres. Trump’s Lawyers…
President Trump is expected to talk to Special Counsel Robert Mueller as part of his Russia probe. Mueller’s team reportedly sent a list of likely interview questions to the president’s attorneys. The special counsel may question the president on his alleged role in former FBI Director James Comey ending his probe into former National Security […]
White House Gave Robert Mueller Nearly 8,000 Pages of Documents Related to James Comey…
White House officials provided Special Counsel Robert Mueller with more than 20,000 pages of documents as they sought to cooperate with his probe of alleged Russian collusion — including nearly 8,000 documents related to the removal last year of FBI Director James Comey. President Trump’s legal team reviewed more than 100,000 pages of documents to […]
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