MSNBC report on Treasury sanctions against Russia / groups.

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Weird stuff.

Another report:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-sanctions-russian-spies-trolls-over-us-election-interference-cyber-attacks/2018/03/15/3eaae186-284c-11e8-b79d-f3d931db7f68_story.html?utm_term=.4995514a3eb7

[Angry Dragon]

1. How come the Sec of State is not speaking out??

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3. Do we have one?

[Angry Dragon]

8. no

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2. What now Nunes?

[triron]

4. I wonder what event precipitated this??

Unexpected to me. Anyone else?

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5. Is this the start of a Cover My Ass for 2018?

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6. "The impact of the sanctions would be diluted by the administration's 'mixed messaging strategy'"

Always watch what they do, not what they say

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7. In the article

it says:

Other experts said the sanctions have no bite, noting that a number of the individuals and entities were sanctioned during the Obama administration as well.

“Such narrowly targeted sanctions don’t impact Russia’s economy at all, and that seems to have been the administration’s intent,” said Michael Carpenter, a former Pentagon and White House official who worked on Russia policy. “Russia’s intelligence services don’t exactly have retail bank accounts in the United States, and so this will have a negligible impact on their operations.”

He also said the impact of the sanctions would be diluted by the administration’s “mixed messaging strategy” in which “Cabinet-level officials have ventured forth to condemn Russia’s subversion of democratic institutions, but the president himself continues to refrain from personally saying anything negative” about his counterpart, Vladimir Putin

I think we need more comparison of these sanctions and what congress approved. They are probably quite different, and this could just be for appearances sake.

Eta: Although, Mnuchin did provide that bogus list from Forbes. That could technically be the sanctions congress approved...which still would probably contain the wrong targets. Wall Street has an interest in sanctions being lifted since some of their funds are being sanctioned. Mnuchin being a former wall street banker has an interest in avoiding putting a real effort into it.

So color me skeptical.