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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRachel Tonight, Holy Shit; Rex Tillerson gave the security contract on the US Embassy in Moscow ..
.... to a Vlad Putin company.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/14/world/europe/embassy-moscow-kgb.html
U.S. Hires Company With K.G.B. Link to Guard Moscow Embassy
MOSCOW When President Vladimir V. Putin in July ordered American diplomatic missions in Russia to slash their staff by 755 employees, the State Department said it would need time to assess the impact of such a limitation and how we will respond to it.
Part of that response has now become clear: To make up for the loss of security guards axed in the Russian-mandated staff cuts, Washington has hired a private Russian company that grew out of a security business co-founded by Mr. Putins former K.G.B. boss, an 82-year-old veteran spy who spent 25 years planting agents in Western security services and hunting down their operatives.
Under a $2.8 million no-bid contract awarded by the Office of Acquisitions in Washington, security guards at the American Embassy in Moscow and at consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok will be provided by Elite Security Holdings, a company closely linked to the former top K.G.B. figure, Viktor G. Budanov, a retired general who rose through the ranks to become head of Soviet counterintelligence.
A State Department official in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity in accordance with the departments rules, said that Elite Security and individuals associated with it had been vetted with relevant national and local agencies and would not increase the threat risk.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)For their betrayal of America.
Initech
(100,107 posts)onit2day
(1,201 posts)GP6971
(31,224 posts)Not me.
Botany
(70,600 posts)It was a coup and we have treason
orangecrush
(19,636 posts)And talked to an aide.
He said he doesn't believe the Senator was aware of this, and is passing the message.
This means the embassy is compromised and now basically worthless.
pandr32
(11,625 posts)Botany
(70,600 posts)... when and if the sanctions are lifted. Rex did not have one day of diplomatic experience
when Trump piked him to be S.o.S.. Funny how everything about Trump seems to go back
to Russia, the Bank of Cypress, or China which holds a lot of Trump/Kushner debt.
Baitball Blogger
(46,765 posts)for the Russians.
Crazy, crazy, crazy.
Phoenix61
(17,019 posts)mdbl
(4,976 posts)why did the official remain anonymous?
chaking53
(76 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Freethinker65
(10,064 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,638 posts)illnesses that occurred in Cuba at the embassy and people suffered hearing loss from sonic waves or something unseen.
keithbvadu2
(36,949 posts)blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)Botany
(70,600 posts)This is treason. Trump is owned by Russia.
Crash2Parties
(6,017 posts)Initech
(100,107 posts)Fuck these fucking assholes!!!!
struggle4progress
(118,378 posts)spanone
(135,895 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)burrowowl
(17,653 posts)Our State Department is gravely wounded. The EPA screwed over. etc.
Our government is being destroyed from within with the aid of greedy corporations and the repukes doing their bidding, etc. traitors all.
SunSeeker
(51,740 posts)superpatriotman
(6,253 posts)Excuse me, billions MORE.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)And, shouldn't they be paying us?
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Seriously, how much evidence of collusion does anyone need?
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)It is worse than Hamlet's nightmares. "We must all hang together or we shall all hang." paraphrase
grantcart
(53,061 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,025 posts)One evil deal at a time.
Corvo Bianco
(1,148 posts)You deserve a Vlad friend medal!
Wait...
oasis
(49,426 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,753 posts)fierywoman
(7,696 posts)up the deal?
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)fatally and will render the building useless.
I demand this deal end before it begins and if not, to send the bill for a new embassy to dump and Rex!
Traitors!
Hekate
(90,849 posts)Her usual history lesson was a good reminder of what I remembered and what I had forgotten. Both the article and her whole segment are recommended?
Gods damn how HOW can Uncle Sam be so stupid?
StarzGuy
(254 posts)WOW, what a list of Russian spying. All the way back to the 1970's. Americans were asleep at the switch. How could it happen that the US allowed the Russians to build our new embassy in Russia awash in spy gadgetry built right into the building itself. Oh, that's right who was in charge of our government? Republicans. Now, we have Trump and his traitors in charge of the US. How did we come to this?
Rex tittlator gutting our state department? What the hell is going on here? What do the pukes in Congress do? Nothing, absolutely nothing. Nero fiddling while Rome burns. Ouch.
Our media is partly the blame as they continue to give ear to these traitors rather than doing any investigation into the matter.
Thank you, each and every one of you Trump voters. Thanks for turning over our government to the Russians. I hope you all get what is coming to you...
dlk
(11,578 posts)And the GOP will continue to obfuscate, obfuscate, obfuscate...
malaise
(269,211 posts)What do you expect from these treasonous scumbags making up this kakistocracy
Botany
(70,600 posts)n/t
ancianita
(36,148 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)benld74
(9,911 posts)panfluteman
(2,070 posts)What is??? What more proof do you need that the administration's goal and objective is to make the US a puppet or vassal state of Russia? You can get all philosophical about it, and say that the power of various nations and empires has constantly waxed and waned throughout history, and every superpower has had their rise and fall, but there's absolutely NO excuse for our country's top leaders to willingly sell out to an adversarial foreign power. SAD!!!
DFW
(54,447 posts)Sounds like the line from the ending of the first Indiana Jones film when Jones asks who is working on the Ark, and gets the answer from the U.S. government paper pusher, "top men."
packman
(16,296 posts)What the fuck is wrong with these people?
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)orangecrush
(19,636 posts)From these treacherous scumbags surprises me anymore.
Dems need to call for congressional hearings on this NOW.
They_Live
(3,241 posts)GUILTY.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Trump and Tillerson are Putins lapdogs. And Vlad is laughing his ass off at these pushover-dimwits.
harun
(11,348 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)"Told you."
Shaking my damn head so much I'm getting vertigo.
get the red out
(13,468 posts)the R reaction if a D administration had done this? Fake patriots, nearly all the R lawmakers! And the Trump Admin is literally treasonous.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)Be afraid.
barbtries
(28,811 posts)i think putin has many more than simply trump under his thumb.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)I mean, how can anyone possibly justify this?
Fox, welcome to the hen house. Here are the keys.
harun
(11,348 posts)Lovely
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)WTF
rockfordfile
(8,706 posts)spike jones
(1,689 posts)with all the listening devices that were installed during Trumps recent White House remodel.