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Ya'll remember when Trump tweeted Obama did nothing about Russian interference?
Well here's one thing Obama did that Trump's working hard to undo:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-moves-to-return-russian-compounds-in-maryland-and-new-york/2017/05/31/3c4778d2-4616-11e7-98cd-af64b4fe2dfc_story.html?utm_term=.1f7ac4cb2f9
Trump administration moves to return Russian compounds in Maryland and New York
By Karen DeYoung and Adam Entous May 31
The Trump administration is moving toward handing back to Russia two diplomatic compounds, near New York City and on Marylands Eastern Shore, that its officials were ejected from in late December as punishment for Moscows interference in the 2016 presidential election.
President Barack Obama said Dec. 29 that the compounds were being used by Russian personnel for intelligence-related purposes and gave Russia 24 hours to vacate them. Separately, Obama expelled from the United States what he said were 35 Russian intelligence operatives.
[The luxurious, 45-acre compound in Maryland being shut down for alleged Russian espionage]
In early May, the Trump administration told the Russians that it would consider turning the properties back over to them if Moscow would lift its freeze, imposed in 2014 in retaliation for U.S. sanctions related to Ukraine, on construction of a new U.S. consulate on a certain parcel of land in St. Petersburg.
Two days later, the U.S. position changed. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at a meeting in Washington that the United States had dropped any linkage between the compounds and the consulate, according to several people with knowledge of the exchanges.
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BannonsLiver
(16,399 posts)These "compounds" are nothing but fronts for spying.
former9thward
(32,028 posts)Its no secret.
BannonsLiver
(16,399 posts)But we do it on our own. I doubt Putin lends a helping hand. The same can't be said for the Trump regime. Where do their loyalties lie?
procon
(15,805 posts)spanone
(135,847 posts)Doodley
(9,095 posts)OnDoutside
(19,962 posts)Russian Visa requests, for entry to the US, during 2016 ? It was mentioned in yesterday's WaPo article, but didn't make the link between the two.
If this is the case, then it suggests to me that US Intel had them under surveillance, and perhaps they interacted with the Trump organization too. It is interesting that they were brought over to the US, there's a story there that will surely come out in time.
trof
(54,256 posts)MurrayDelph
(5,299 posts)for services rendered.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Russia better not get those compounds back.