U.S. expels 35 Russian diplomats, closes two compounds: official
Source: Reuters
The United States on Thursday expelled 35 Russian diplomats and closed two Russian compounds in New York and Maryland in response to a campaign of harassment by Russia against American diplomats in Moscow, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday.
The U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters the Russian diplomats would be given 72 hours to leave the United States. Access to the two compounds will be denied to all Russian officials as of noon on Friday, the official added.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-cyber-idUSKBN14I1TY
From the NYT...
U.S. Punishes Russia for Election Hacking, Ejecting Operatives
WASHINGTON The Obama administration struck back at Russia on Thursday for its efforts to influence the 2016 election, ejecting 35 Russian intelligence operatives from the United States and imposing sanctions on Russias two leading intelligence services, including four top officers of the military intelligence unit the White House believes ordered the attacks on the Democratic National Committee and other political organizations.
In a sweeping set of announcements, the United States was also expected to release evidence linking the cyberattacks to computer systems used by Russian intelligence. Taken together, the actions would amount to the strongest American response ever taken to a state-sponsored cyberattack aimed at the United States.
The sanctions were also intended to box in President-elect Donald J. Trump. Mr. Trump has consistently cast doubt that the Russian government had anything to do with the hacking of the D.N.C. or other political institutions, saying American intelligence agencies could not be trusted and suggesting that the hacking could have been the work of a 400-pound guy lying in his bed.
Mr. Trump will now have to decide whether to lift the sanctions on the Russian intelligence agencies when he takes office next month, with Republicans in Congress among those calling for a public investigation into Russias actions. Should Mr. Trump do so, it would require him to effectively reject the findings of his intelligence agencies.
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Coventina
(27,164 posts)fletch18
(7 posts)Sanctuary city and all?
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)Sanctuary cities aren't set up to provide safe havens that allow enemy nation's spies to remain in the U.S., despite our federal government's expulsion ruling.
That's quite the cartoonish idea you have there, regarding what the sanctuary movement is all about. Very conservative, very uninformed, but not very amusing.
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)Blue Shoes
(220 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)cilla4progress
(24,760 posts)has good and strong...unequivocal...evidence that they somehow participated.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Russia as the rationale
jpak
(41,758 posts)n/t
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)jpak
(41,758 posts)n/t
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Ukraine and several other countries. Used the same dump hacked emails on WikiLeaks to destabilize a government- Republicans allowed in America.
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)Wow!
There are two groups--perhaps one person each, but that's unlikely from what I've seen.
They aren't government backed. They cooperate with the government. On the other hand, they also engage in purely malicious and criminal hacks for fun and profit. It's a cultural thing. They're criminals, but nationalist and patriotic criminals, the kind of thing you get in sharply fascist states where the government's corrupt and the attitude of the populace is that they'll baldly lie to protect the government (even if they resent the local officials). They're Russian; they might be in Russia, but at least in the past they were physically located some place in the SW part of the country, and have been allied with or form a unit with Russian hackers in the E. Ukraine. The government doesn't want to reign them in, because they often do on their own what the government would want, and the space between them and the government provides plausible deniability.
One tends to work with the FSB; the other, military intelligence. The two organizations do not coordinate or cooperate; if anything, they're usually described as competitive, acting more in parallel than in tandem. It would be like the FBI and CIA if both were fully authorized to conduct operations domestically and abroad, instead of being complementary.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,469 posts)notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)So far they are dumbfounded. Will they defend Russia? Guess what news will dominate the media today?
coco22
(1,258 posts)RepubliCon on msnbc now defending russian talking about election again. That hate is strong.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)(So long, devil's spawn)
liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)aquamarina
(1,865 posts)Alekzander
(479 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,113 posts)Too bad most of their voters dont understand this.
Seedersandleechers
(3,044 posts)And he still has 22 more days.
kacekwl
(7,021 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,257 posts)he may have been willing to compromise with Boehner too often
but he always studies all his options and acts in the best interests
of the United States
what will Bouffant Don do now?
LisaM
(27,827 posts)For all of his smarts, he did not do enough before the election vis a vis Comey and the Russians. He just didn't. I'm freaking out.
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)They underestimate others' ability to be foolish and self destructive.
Abouttime
(675 posts)That once and for all will bring don the con down before he's even confirmed by the house
japple
(9,838 posts)Bernie winning!
SunSeeker
(51,658 posts)So he didn't want to stir the pot and generate charges that he was helping her. Of course, after Comey put out his letter, all bets were off and at that point Obama should have condemned Russia loud and clear. But I think even after the Comey letter, Obama thought she was going to win.
Hindsight is 20/20.
LisaM
(27,827 posts)Anytime she got any kind of a bump, some new roadblock would be thrown up. I was terrified a couple of days before the election; not that I thought the Comey thing meant anything, but then down went the polls, in predictable fashion.
Abouttime
(675 posts)Don't forget that, she won by 3 million votes. PA, WI, MI and FL were most likely stolen handing the EC to tRump.
I wish Obama would reference this!!
SunSeeker
(51,658 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)when they wanted to cover up something else in the news.
I don't see how this will have any impact.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)sdfernando
(4,937 posts)they will blackmail to get their ends.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Russia probably holds many, many party fun videos as blackmail.
That's why trump paid off the girl he raped and beat in his & pedophile friend Jeffery usa 'party' so very fast.
When she got a good lawyer & lawyer threatened a public press interview on election week. He (and Republican backers?) paid millions, on the spot to stop the interview. And shut her up.
SunSeeker
(51,658 posts)And, sadly, without the public outrage.
elmac
(4,642 posts)being his corporate credit rating is in the dumpster. That plus his history of not paying for services, contracts, he can't get any traditional loans in this country.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)from Russia". Still, trumps a silly-stooge to his Fellow Republicans, a patsy-president.
People like old Cheney will start scarfing-up Americas Federal and state money again for their personal war-businesses and the idiot (R) president, will blame the food stamp abuse.
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)Russians leaked UN resolution Obama conspiracy doc
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.761741?v=8E9A556A0D3A4B42C3830D92C69C4C4E
vkkv
(3,384 posts)Screw pro-Bibi Israelis.
Screw pro-Trumper Americans.
agree completely
nini
(16,672 posts)no thanks
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)It's the only major left-oriented newspaper remaining in Israel.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Two State solution.
unlike you Russians who want to group up with warmonger republicans and slay couple million woman, men and children with cluster bombs and poison gas and call babies 'terrorists'
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)When else would that sort of leak emerge?
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Bias often requires little more than timing to validate itself, upon which all the great post hoc ergo prompter hoc fallacies rest.
vkkv
(3,384 posts)flamingdem
(39,319 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)As a reward for hacking the election.
JustAnotherGen
(31,866 posts)Update to OFAC's list of Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) and Blocked Persons
Today, the President issued an Executive Order Taking Additional Steps To Address The National Emergency With Respect To Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities. This amends Executive Order 13694, Blocking the Property of Certain Persons Engaging in Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities. E.O. 13694 authorized the imposition of sanctions on individuals and entities determined to be responsible for or complicit in malicious cyber-enabled activities that result in enumerated harms that are reasonably likely to result in, or have materially contributed to, a significant threat to the national security, foreign policy, or economic health or financial stability of the United States. The authority has been amended to also allow for the imposition of sanctions on individuals and entities determined to be responsible for tampering, altering, or causing the misappropriation of information with the purpose or effect of interfering with or undermining election processes or institutions. Five entities and four individuals are identified in the Annex of the amended Executive Order and will be added to OFACs list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN List). OFAC today is designating an additional two individuals who also will be added to the SDN List.
Please visit this page to access the latest version of the SDN list. Check this page periodically as it may also be updated if a new list-related format or product is offered. For more information on this specific action, please visit this page.
Here's the page:
https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List/Pages/default.aspx
JustAnotherGen
(31,866 posts)81 FR 94963
Russian Sanctions: Addition of Certain Entities to the Entity List, and Clarification of License Review Policy
This final rule amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by adding twenty-three entities to the Entity List. The twenty-three entities who are added to the Entity List have been determined by the U.S. Government to be acting contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States. BIS is taking this action to ensure the efficacy of existing sanctions on the Russian Federation (Russia) for violating international law and fueling the conflict in eastern Ukraine. These entities will be listed on the Entity List under the destinations of Russia and the Crimea region of Ukraine.
In addition to the Entity List changes described above, this final rule revises the licensing policy in three sections of the Commerce Control List (CCL)-based controls in the EAR to clarify that BISs review of license applications for exports, reexports and transfers (in-country) to Russia will take into account and protect U.S. national security interests.
https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/regulations/federal-register-notices#fr94963
Shit is getting real.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,749 posts)progressoid
(49,996 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)trump is ignorant, his 'betters', his fellow Republicans use him like a rug.
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geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)If you don't have a big problem with that, maybe this isn't the site for you.
BumRushDaShow
(129,361 posts)Too many Trump trolls continue to infest DU.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)The fact that ALL 17 civilian and military security agencies have corroborated that the Russians have interfered with our election is apparently meaningless to them. No doubt the Cult of Trump is ignoring those facts.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)As much as Trump tweets,
does that make him a twit?
kytngirl
(99 posts)...it makes him a twat.
blueseas
(11,575 posts)Looks like we have to watch twitter for everything.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)twit will be awake at 3am all "ritalined up" and send tweets to his internet-Jesus.
iluvtennis
(19,868 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Tatiana
(14,167 posts)Hope the covert actions are 100x worse.
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)I'm reading the commentary with people saying "every country does this, we knowingly allowed spies here..." Huh? Why the fuck did we knowingly allow spies to operate in this country?
All this too-clever-by-half shit is why we're facing Trump. The elites weren't taking our security seriously, allowing the Chinese and Russians to hack us for decades so long as the times were good. What happened to this country? How did we become so uncaring and naive?
BumRushDaShow
(129,361 posts)it's to determine other/deeper motives that go beyond the dime-store novel plots.
IMHO, the Trump thing was a "fortunate circumstance" that the Russian oligarchs could take advantage of and was probably not the initial intent for the spying.
And as for "hacking" - the fact that we had an OS at one time used by something like 80% of the population that the programmers thought was hilarious to pepper with "easter eggs" rather than focus on security of the product, has nothing to do with the current administration and its security personnel. As it is (and as we saw first hand), you can have a powerfully secured system become compromised due to human responses to socially-engineered click-bait emails.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)he's hoodwinking? So, did the Russians rig the election in favor of Trump, therefore Trump owes? I think we just ''elected'' the most corrupt President in U.S. History. It's not so much I can't wait for him to be sworn in, give or take a natural disaster that would prevent it, but to verify my convictions and speculation on what Trumps MOD is will be. Russian diplomats expelled? Yeah, that's telling them. The real cause for concern is the deal that Trump and Putin put together. We'll soon see won't we.
iluvtennis
(19,868 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,876 posts)ALBliberal
(2,344 posts)harun
(11,348 posts)and wants to undo Obama's action, he'd be bringing Russian KGB agents back in to the United States.
That wouldn't go over so well.
babylonsister
(171,079 posts)samir.g
(835 posts)fletch18
(7 posts)No harm no foul. Free vacation and they can hang out as long as they please😉
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)And it IS hilarious how treasonous they are, always.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)Holy moly!
Lady_Chat
(561 posts)So glad, he did what he did!
harun
(11,348 posts)for the last month of his Presidency. Better than nothing.
roomtomove
(217 posts)compounds were even allowed to exist in the first place...????????