US Sanctions Russians Over Military, Intelligence Hacking (reuters.com)

The U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions on three Russian individuals and five companies on Monday, saying they had worked with Moscow's military and intelligence services on ways to conduct cyber attacks against the United States and its allies. From a report: "The United States is engaged in an ongoing effort to counter malicious actors working at the behest of the Russian Federation and its military and intelligence units to increase Russiaâ(TM)s offensive cyber capabilities," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement. "The entities designated today have directly contributed to improving Russia's cyber and underwater capabilities through their work with the FSB and therefore jeopardize the safety and security of the United States and our allies," Mnuchin said, using an acronym for Russia's Federal Security Service.

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Sure seems like it.

[Gravis Zero]

But isn't Trump working for Putin?

Honestly, we don't know for sure but he's "working overtime" to try and shut down the investigation that would allow us to find out.

Re:Sure seems like it.

[bobbied]

How long do you suppose it would take to find out? Muller has pretty much a blank check and authorization to investigate pretty much any leads he finds into pretty much anything. He's been going over a year now and the FBI 9 months before that.

Are you sure we don't already know enough to be reasonably sure? You cannot prove a negative, but if you cannot come up with some kind of prove of the positive after a year, it's starting to look like nothing happened. Of course, you can keep looking until you find something or the target leaves office... Historically, That's what special councils do anyway, but how much time does it take before we can assume there is no there there? A year, two years? Eight years?

Re:Sure seems like it.

[forgottenusername]

Nothing happened?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

"Through June 2018, the Special Counsel has publicly initiated criminal proceedings against 20 peopleâ"five U.S. nationals, 14 Russian nationals, and one Dutch nationalâ"and three Russian organizations."

This is just Russia, not even his other illegal doings like stuff Cohen is under investigation for. Quite the nothingburger.

"They haven't proved anything about Trump!"

No, just a bunch of his associates, including several directly involved with his administration and election campaign. I guess they all acted independently & committed crimes for teh lulz. If you believe the ultimate boss of a bunch of criminals isn't involved then you need your common sense meter checked.

So tired of the "nothing has been found" false narrative. Many indictments have come down. There are so many moving pieces, and it's such a sensitive investigation, if it had wrapped up by now it'd mean Mueller was subverted ala House investigation. "No one showed up, no one answered our questions, the WH was in direct communication with interviewees. However based on available data we can say there was absolutely no collusion"

Pretty easy to come to that conclusion when your investigation is a farce.

Re:Collusion

[bobbied]

So.... You are saying Trump, who is supposed to be the stupidest man to ever serve as president, is smart enough to actually arrange for this kind of diversionary tactic, but the American public is stupid enough to fall for it, but the press is willing to overlook it? (Not likely, perhaps, no way in HE double tooth picks.)

Who's off in the weeds here?

Could it just possibly be the government working as it is currently implmented? That the Russians have been hacking and we are dealing with it in the standard bureaucratic way and the administration has little to do with this?

Sanctions for how long

[PraiseBob]

I expect Trump to step in personally, and reverse these sanctions, just like he did to all previous anti-Russian actions. He is Vladimirs stooge. The only way the sanctions would remain in place is if these oligarchs are political enemies of Putin.

Re:Collusion

[amiga3D]

A lot of what Trump says is just meant to make the press go crazy and distract them from something else. They're like cats chasing the red dot of a laser pointer. I swear sometimes he just does it for entertainment purposes. You can take the Reality TV star off his series but you can't get him to stop playing Reality Star. It's like we have the Apprentice 2.0, DC Whitehouse Version.

Re:Collusion

[jittles]

I won't be either the first or the last to point this out, but this looks like staged chaff to distract the feeble-minded American public away from the new psy-ops operations now gearing up for the next election cycle.

So easy to think: "Ha. If Trump was colluding with the Russians would he allow this!" (stupid libs.)

Obvious answer: No.

Correct answer: Not so fast.

More likely it’s just the Trump administration working out a ‘legal’ way to initiate a funds transfer into the Trump Organization. After all, we hit ZTE with sacntions and what happens literally days later? Chinese government authorizes a $500M loan to Trump and all of the sudden we are costing the Chinese people too many jobs. So he’s just sticking his hand out asking for another check.