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Friday, 30 December 2016

Barack Obama expels 35 Russian diplomats from the US, gives them 72 hours to leave the country

US President Obama on Thursday, accused Russia of hacking and interfering with the US presidential election on orders from President Vladimir Putin. Even though he had previously said, on several occasions, that he didn't think the election was rigged in any way. He ordered 35 Russian intelligence operatives to leave the country as part of sanctions ordered for what he said where the country's attempts to 'interfere with democratic governance' and harassment of U.S. diplomatic officials in Russia.
In a statement he released while announcing the sanctions against Russia, he launched a scathing attack on Putin's Kremlin. He all but named Ptuin in his statement as the brain behind the hacking. The said the hacking was 'ordered at the highest level'. The 35 diplomats were given 72 hours to leave the US with their families. So they have till Sunday to leave.

Other sanctions include revealing in public exactly what technical information the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI hold on Russian hacking capabilities.

Obama also shut down two Russian compounds, one in New York and one in Maryland, which he said had been used for intelligence-related purposes.

And he introduced financial sanctions on the two Russian spy agencies, the GRU and the FSB, four named GRU officers, and three companies said to have provided 'material support' for the GRU's hacking.

Russia responded to President Obama’s sanctions by reportedly closing the Anglo-American School of Moscow, a facility for the children of American, British, and Canadian diplomats.

Dmitry Peskov, a Putin spokesman, told reporters on a conference call that Moscow doubted the effectiveness of the measures, since Obama will leave office in just three weeks.

He said:
'Such steps of the U.S. administration that has three weeks left to work are aimed at two things: to further harm Russian-American ties, which are at a low point as it is, as well as, obviously, deal a blow on the foreign policy plans of the incoming administration of the president-elect,'. 
However, senior administration officials said that they expect the sanctions to stick after Donald Trump takes over.
The official said:
'These are executive actions, so if a future president decided that he wanted to allow in a large tranche of intelligence agents, presumably a future president could invite that action. We think it would be inadvisable,'. 'Hypothetically you could reverse those sanctions, but it wouldn't make a lot of sense.' Michael McFaul, the former U.S. ambassador to Russia, said Obama's measures were 'appropriate and better late than never.'

Source: CNN, Daily Mail, NY Post

23 comments:

Unknown said...

Wow... Dnt worry Trumpy is coming to bring them back! 😂

Unknown said...

cyber warfare, Russia, China and North Korea have been taunting the USA. it has got to stop

Unknown said...

Don't know if this was actually necessary. Obama has just 3 weeks left in office and should better not make his "legacy" more tarnished that it already is.

NaijaDeltaBabe said...

Hmmmm


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Unknown said...

good
-D great anonymous now as Vivian Reginalds

Unknown said...

so you think usa is not also attacking them?? Usa always wants to be everybody's superman and kolewerk. The evils they do are more that what u imagine

Unknown said...

All over the WORLD, OPPOSTION has been wining ELECTIONS, even in the US!!!
This year isn't an EXCEPTION!!!
WHY should ANOTHER COUNTRY be blamed???
This US has been "DOING SUCH THINGS" in other countries!!!
A saying goes, "A woman unable to put to bed will be blaming the husband's family witches"!!!

Unknown said...

Why always USA?

kismet kiddies ENTZ said...

War in progress

Unknown said...

Why change his stance now??? Linda take note!

Unknown said...

These russians tho...why meddle with the US? There must be something

Unknown said...

Obama just want war he is a fool cos things did not go his way

Eddy Ogbunambala said...

Hmmmm

Unknown said...

Let's see how it's goes,hope there would be no war.

kbagger said...

America is just an empire that is about to fall

kbagger said...

America is just an empire that wants to fall

CHERYL (aka FROM GLORY to GLORY) said...

If there is every reason to believe Russia is guilty then the sanction is in order else I think trump might reverse it cos he has shown he's interested in having diplomatic relations with Russia.


Long Live LIB

Unknown said...

Russia will take over as the world power? Well, you are complaining about USA but you never know the power of the Russians and trust me, they will destroy the world with their rasicm

kulikuli said...

Black man syndrome; never leaving power gracefully.
First Israel, now Russia.
Where else will he go to within these dying days,
stirring up diplomatic sleeping dogs,
just because things did not go his way,
and therefore to spite the in coming president.

Na wao!

Unknown said...

This is just a bid by obama to paint Trump as a Russian stooge. He wants to reduce relationship with Russia to the barest minimum and if Trump tries to revive the relations, he will be branded as a Russian stooge. This is very petty of Obama and the democrats. How can you take such serious decision when you only have 3 weeks to go? Is it today that Russia and America have been playing their cat and mouse games? Why did he not expel these diplomats since?

Anonymous said...

the world is deffinately coming to an END..when two powers don't seem to agree on terms..war starts!

Anonymous said...

Danny Peter, your type is very rare on LIB. Most pepole who comment here are either teenagers who still have a lot to learn about the world or just half baked illiterate adults. I can't imagine any serious minded adult who would prefer the likes of Russia to the US. You think you have it bad now, wait till God forbid power shifts to the East. Maybe then you will appreciate the freedom you do not think you have now.

Unknown said...

Ok

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