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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Fri Dec 30, 2016, 06:14 AM Dec 2016

President Barack Obama Expells 35 Russian Diplomates for election activities


Barack Obama Sanctions Russia Over Election Meddling

With Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell welcoming the move, it would be politically difficult for Donald Trump to reverse it.

President Barack Obama sanctioned Russian officials and entities on Thursday in response to Moscow’s reported hacking during the U.S. presidential election.

“All Americans should be alarmed by Russia’s actions,” the president said in a statement.

In addition to hitting two Russian intelligence agencies, three companies and four individual intelligence officers with sanctions banning them from travel and business with U.S. companies or individuals, Obama ordered 35 Russian operatives posted at diplomatic facilities in Washington and San Francisco to leave. The president asked the State Department to bar Russians from entering two Russian-owned compounds in Maryland and New York that were used to gather intelligence, according to his statement. And Obama’s Treasury Department barred U.S. business with two Russians accused of cyber-theft of money and data.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-sanctions-russia-over-election_us_586560e7e4b0d9a5945a9b3a

They need to ask Trump and Roger Stone under oath in an official capacity what they know and how much did they coordinate their election activities with the Russian spies. Until the people in trump's sphere are officially cleared there is a justification for suspicious un American activities. All of the Trump people need to be put under oath and activities investigated.

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President Barack Obama Expells 35 Russian Diplomates for election activities (Original Post) UCmeNdc Dec 2016 OP
The president asked the State Department to bar Russians from entering two Russian-owned compounds HoneyBadger Dec 2016 #1
Why not ask Trump to answer under oath how much contact his campaign had with Russians? UCmeNdc Dec 2016 #2
 

HoneyBadger

(2,297 posts)
1. The president asked the State Department to bar Russians from entering two Russian-owned compounds
Fri Dec 30, 2016, 08:14 AM
Dec 2016

Interesting language.....so the Russians have not actually been barred from entering then compounds, Obama has just asked that be done. Wonder why that is is, are the compounds technically no longer US soil?

UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
2. Why not ask Trump to answer under oath how much contact his campaign had with Russians?
Fri Dec 30, 2016, 12:22 PM
Dec 2016

Why won't the FBI fully investigate this whole situation?

Who has Roger Stone been coordinating news releases within the Russian Embassy?

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