Thread: Russia Considers Returning Snowden to U.S. to ‘Curry Favor’ With Trump: Official

Everyone wants to poke at the KGB from the old days. Well, it's my opinion that the new KGB is the US CIA and Americans better wake up and smell the crap. Wire-tapping foreign ambassadors? How is that even possible? How can that possibly be correct action by our CIA? How do they even accomplish that? Does that mean all these countries are wire-tapping our ambassadors and President? Honestly? This is globalism, where no sovereignty exists for any country, not even their own leaders on their own soil.

Sure isn't differences between them....and CIA should keep their noses just here...)

Let's be clear.... Soros is an American with 170 foundation abroad...his fingers are everywhere...faiting against current governments and the leaders, like, now, just here.

He is the enemy....the most dangerous speculator of all modern history.

Russia Deploys Missile, Violating Treaty and Challenging Trump

Trump needs to be careful and never appear to be so naive as to believe Russia is interested in a mutual friendship based on trust. To fall in such a trap could leave him looking like the idiot Russian Manchurian candidate the Democrats have been calling him all along. At the very least, an attempt to cozy up with Putin could end up causing our country and President Trump a lot of embarrassment. IMO, Putin is not to be trusted.

Tread lightly Mr. President.

Originally Posted by Judy

Everyone wants to poke at the KGB from the old days. Well, it's my opinion that the new KGB is the US CIA and Americans better wake up and smell the crap.
Wire-tapping foreign ambassadors? How is that even possible? How can that possibly be correct action by our CIA? How do they even accomplish that?
Does that mean all these countries are wire-tapping our ambassadors and President? Honestly?

This is globalism, where no sovereignty exists for any country, not even their own leaders on their own soil.

Senators launch query on Trump's smartphone security

AFP February 14, 2017


Washington (AFP) - Two US senators have requested details on President Donald Trump's smartphone security, saying he could jeopardize national secrets if he is still using his old handset, as some reports say.

"Did Trump receive a secured, encrypted smartphone for his personal use on or before Jan. 20? If so, is he using it?," said a tweet Tuesday by Senator Tom Carper, who along with fellow Democrat Claire McCaskill released a letter to the administration requesting information on the president's device.

"Trump should be well aware by now of the appropriate and necessary protocol to safeguard our nation's secrets."

The letter from the two lawmakers, dated February 9, was sent to Defense Secretary James Mattis along with Homeland Security chief John Kelly and the National Security Agency director Michael Rogers. The senators released the letter late Monday.

The lawmakers said they were concerned by reports that Trump was still using an Android device that may be several years old for his frequent personal Twitter messages.

"While it is important for the president to have the ability to communicate electronically, it is equally important that he does so in a manner that is secure and that ensures the preservation of presidential records," the letter said.

"The national security risks of compromising a smartphone used by a senior government official, such as the president of the United States, are considerable."

The New York Times reported last month that while Trump had received a new, secure device after his inauguration, he still relied on his older device despite protests from aides.

That report prompted a flurry of comments from security experts who argued that the president would be inviting danger by using his old personal phone.

Trump's smartphone "would probably be the most widely prized device on the internet for hackers -- and top of the target list for intelligence agencies around the world," said independent security researcher Graham Cluley in a blog post Tuesday.

Last month, Nicholas Weaver of the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California, warned that "Trump's continued use of a dangerously insecure, out-of-date Android device should cause real panic."

Writing on the Lawfare blog, Weaver noted that hackers could gain access to the phone's location as well as its microphone and camera and that "the working assumption should be that Trump's phone is compromised by at least one -- probably multiple -- hostile foreign intelligence services and is actively being exploited."

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/senators-...144619708.html

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Tue Feb 14, 2017 | 1:42pm EST

Trump expects Russia to return Crimea to Ukraine: White House

Russia tells White House it will not return Crimea to Ukraine

It's good that Russia took Crimea off the table. Crimea should be with Russia not Ukraine.

White House: Trump Made It Clear Russia Must 'Return Crimea' To Ukraine


February 14, 2017

• RFE/RL

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Speaking at a February 14 press conference, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said that "at the same time," Trump "fully expects to and wants to get along with Russia."


WASHINGTON -- The White House has said that President Donald Trump fully expects Russia to return control of Crimea to Ukraine.

Spokesman Sean Spicer made the remarks at a contentious February 14 news conference that focused largely on the abrupt departure of Trump's national security adviser, Michael Flynn.
Flynn resigned less than 24 hours earlier, following news reports that said phone calls he held with Russia's ambassador prior to Trump's inauguration included discussions of sanctions imposed by then-President Barack Obama.

The Obama administration hit Russia with several waves of sanctions following Russia's March 2014 annexation of Crimea and the subsequent war in eastern Ukraine between Kyiv's forces and Russia-backed separatists.

Trump, meanwhile, has repeatedly said he wants better relations with Russia and that he would consider lifting sanctions against Moscow.

Multiple news reports in the past week have said Flynn specifically mentioned the issue of sanctions in phone calls with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak weeks before Trump's inauguration on January 20.

Spicer defended Trump's approach to Russia, telling reporters on February 14 that the president "has made it very clear that he expects the Russian government to de-escalate the violence in the Ukraine and return Crimea."

"The irony of this entire situation is that the president has been incredibly tough on Russia. He continues to raise the issue of Crimea, which the previous administration allowed to be seized by Russia," Spicer said.

Spicer also pointed to remarks made by Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, in her first appearance before the Security Council on February 3, in which she forcefully condemned Russia, saying that "Crimea is a part of Ukraine."

Haley said in her remarks that "Crimea-related sanctions will remain in place until Russia returns control of the peninsula to Ukraine."

It was not clear whether Haley was also referring to sanctions imposed on Russia for its backing of separatists in eastern Ukraine.

One of the phone calls that Flynn had with Kislyak reportedly occurred on December 26. That was the same day that Obama announced a new set of sanctions against Russia in retaliation for what U.S. intelligence concluded was a systematic effort using computer hacking and propaganda to influence the presidential election.

Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton to win the election.

http://www.rferl.org/a/us-ukraine-ru.../28309743.html

Crimea should stay with Russia where the Crimeans want it to be. They voted in a referendum. A follow up poll confirmed their choice. They are Russian for generations. They were never part of Ukraine, the people of whom are not Russians. They were "gifted" to Ukraine by Khrushchev because his wife was from Ukraine and he wanted to do something nice for them. Then the USSR breaks up and the poor Crimeans got stuck with the Ukainians who discriminate against the Russians. Then there was a coup in Ukraine and the Russians in Crimea said THAT'S IT, we want to move our province back home with Russia.

Why would Americans ever oppose a correction of a wrong??!! Gifting Crimea to Ukraine was wrong to begin with, that's not democracy, that's what Kings do, and when it was all USSR maybe it didn't matter so much, but now it does, they are separated and isolated from their homeland, Mother Russia. So, they decided to go back to Russia, their choice, they voted to go home.

Why would Trump demand that Russia Must 'Return Crimea' To Ukraine if it wasn't the right decision ?

I guess you you think you know better than Trump and his advisors.

"White House: Trump Made It Clear Russia Must 'Return Crimea' To Ukraine"