Any Bets? It's Pay-Black-Time for Russia

[Cigar]

CNN reporting now. There's a draft Executive Order to drop (some?) Russian sanctions.



This comes days ahead of a call between trump and his daddy Putin.

He's paying back Putin in his first week in office


Will update as I find more confirmation beyond "numerous D.C. Sources", but it sounds par for the course.

Trump, Putin to talk Saturday



http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/316442-trump-putin-to-talk-saturday-report

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are set to speak by telephone on Saturday, the Kremlin has announced.

It will be the first time the two leaders talk since Trump took office on Jan. 20.

The Kremlin did not make clear what the presidents would be discussing.


Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway during an interview Friday morning refused to answer when asked which side had initiated the call.
"I won't divulge that. But it also doesn't matter, in that we have to have leaders talking to each other," Conway said on "CBS This Morning."

Trump has expressed a willingness to ease tensions with Moscow, to the dismay of many foreign policy hawks. He has also stirred criticism for expressing admiration for Putin, at one point calling him a better leader than former President Barack Obama.

Moscow and Putin have congratulated Trump on his election and also expressed desire to improve relations.

Trump has also repeatedly questioned U.S. intelligence community reports that Russia interfered in the 2016 election in his favor, frustrating intelligence experts.

Sources say Trump will also speak by phone with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday, with the main topic of discussion set to be Russia.





Are there any Bets that Russia gets their Sanctions lifted for Free? :wink: Well ... Kinda Free

[Mister D]

Pay black...lol you know where his mind is.

[Captain Obvious]

Pay black...lol you know where his mind is.
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[Bo-4]

I got a buck to make fiddy cents that Trump gives Daddy Poot whatever he wants.

Betting on an executive order removing all sanctions.

Thank you Poppy - I love you and here you go!

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[waltky]

Da fix is in...
http://www.politicalforum.com/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif
U.S. eases sanctions on Russian intelligence agency
Friday 3rd February, 2017 - The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday adjusted sanctions on Russian intelligence agency FSB, making limited exceptions to the measures put in place by former President Barack Obama over accusations Moscow tried to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election with cyber attacks on political organizations.


The department said in a statement it would allow U.S. companies to make limited transactions with FSB that are needed to gain approval to import information technology products into Russia. At the White House, President Donald Trump responded to a reporter’s question about whether he was easing sanctions on Russia, saying, “I’m not easing anything.” Sanctions experts and former Obama administration officials stressed the exceptions do not signal a broader shift in Russia policy. They said the license was designed to fix an unintended consequence caused by December’s sanctioning of the FSB.

The exceptions were likely in progress before Trump took office on Jan. 20, said Peter Harrell, a sanctions expert and former senior U.S. State Department official. Beyond its intelligence function, the FSB also regulates the importation of software and hardware that contains cryptography. Companies need FSB approval even to import broadly available commercial products such as cell phones and printers if they contain encryption. Harrell said tech companies had complained. “I don’t think when they sanctioned FSB they were intending to complicate the sale of cell phones and tablets,” Harrell said.

David Mortlock, a former National Security Council advisor for Obama said that before granting such exceptions, the administration would ask who a sanction was hurting and who it was benefiting. Mortlock, now an attorney, said “here it’s a pretty easy calculus” because it was clear tech companies were the ones harmed by not being able to import software into Russia, not the spy agencies. U.S. intelligence agencies accused the FSB of involvement in hacking of Democratic Party organizations during the election to discredit Democrat Hillary Clinton and help Republican Trump.

The agencies and private cyber security experts concluded the FSB first broke into the Democratic National Committee’s computer system in the summer of 2015 and began monitoring email and chat conversations. They said FSB was one of two Russian spy agencies involved in a broad operation approved by top-ranking people in the Russian government. In December, Obama expelled 35 suspected Russian spies and sanctioned two spy agencies. He also sanctioned four Russian intelligence officers and three companies that he said provided support to the cyber operations.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/us-politics/us-eases-sanctions-on-russian-intelligence-agency/article33877079/?cmpid=rss1

[Cigar]

Pay black...lol you know where his mind is.

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Mister D

[Cannons Front]

Sounds like a non story now that the details have started to come out, it looks like changes were started prior to Jan 20th.....

[Mister D]

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@Mister D (http://thepoliticalforums.com/member.php?u=4) Captain Obvious LOL

[Captain Obvious]

Captain Obvious LOL

There is a flowchart for dialogue with this guy that starts with the race card, moves to gay sex innuendo then to internet tough guy veiled threats.

Every time, like clockwork.

[Mister D]

There is a flowchart for dialogue with this guy that starts with the race card, moves to gay sex innuendo then to internet tough guy veiled threats.

Every time, like clockwork.

lol Sometimes he'll mix it up by putting the Internet tough guy treats before the gay sex innuendo but, yeah, it rarely varies.

[resister]

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