New Republican’s motto,“Rather Red Then Dead.”
“I tried to steal some of their secrets ! That’s what we do at the CIA !”
Pompeo seems to miss a key point. Why are we Americans finding out about such meetings only after they have been reported upon by the Russian press or Reuters? Why are Administration officials, including the President, meeting with Russians without disclosing the fact of the meetings, much less their substance? Whatever has happened to the “transparency” that Trump repeated repeatedly touts (or lies?) about?
Right. Pompeo meeting with any Russian official is defensible IMHO, depending on the agenda and presuming no laws were broken or policies were violated.
Pompeo secretly meeting with Russian officials is not kosher.
The same week Trump decides to defy Congress regarding sanctions, comes up with a laughable Forbes list of Russian billionaires, they meet with three heads of Russian spy agencies? Just incredible.
Maybe it’s on the up and up. And maybe I was born yesterday.
Lordy, I hope the FBI was listening in.
Who new the best way to avoid being charged with treason was to simply do it out in the open.
Pompeo’s report to Trump on the meeting was concise and to the point.
What would’ve happened in a HR Clinton administration if her CIA Director met with Russians, didn’t reveal it at the time, and then said when caught “there is nothing untoward about meeting with representatives of a country hostile to ours”? Asking for a friend.
This is what happens when you never punish your kids for bad behavior, the behavior gets worse and worse…then it’s too late.
Same thing goes for Republicans.
Not enough red. And definitely not enough bears.
hahahaha you’re on a roll!
Another Kochsucker that doesn’t have the balls to stand
up to TRump, and he graduated from West Point ?? Gutless!!
Was he not supposed to meet with his opposite number in the FSB? That’s his job. Truly, fake news.
At the same time this meeting was disclosed in the press, there was also mention in the press that the list of dubious Russian actors compiled by actual experts on the topic of dubious Russians was tossed in favor of the Forbes/Wikipedia/Whatever copy-paste version ultimately supplied by the White House.
Could we --please-- see some follow-up reporting on the list substitution process?
Source article:
US ‘name-and-shame’ list of Russian oligarchs binned by top Trump official – expert
Lede:
A “name-and-shame” list of Russian oligarchs who made their money corruptly from their ties with Vladimir Putin was compiled by the US government agencies but then cancelled last week by a senior administration official, according to a Russia expert who was consulted on the list.
It was replaced by an all-inclusive list of rich Russians apparently copied straight from the Forbes magazine’s ranking of wealthy Russians, together with the names of some top Kremlin officials.
‘Believe me’…seems to be the meme of anyone working for Trump while they lie to the American public. Treasonous bastids.
The CIA has acknowledged that the meeting with Russian officials took place, but did not reveal which Russian officials attended the meeting. In his letter defending the meeting, Pompeo did not specifically confirm that he met with Naryshkin.
https://twitter.com/anneapplebaum/status/959042882786164737
Russia’s ambassador to the United States had earlier confirmed that Sergei Naryshkin, the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), was in Washington in recent days to meet with U.S. officials about terrorism and other matters.
But the presence of the two other chiefs – Aleksandr Bortnikov, director of the Federal Security Service (FSB), and Colonel General Igor Korobov, chief of Russian General Staff’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) – was not previously known.
The Washington Post said on January 31 that Bortnikov and Korobov came to the U.S. capital last week, and that Bortnikov had met with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, as did Naryshkin.
That is not the issue. What is in question here is Administration officials meeting with Russian officials in secret. That’s a no-no.
So Much for the HONOR of being a West Point Graduate!
Maybe someone in Russia is trying to defect and sell some info on Donald.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/russia-something-trump-congresswoman-frederica-wilson-claims/