Posted on 06/16/2017 2:20:26 PM PDT by blueplum
...The NSC memo obtained by The Hill stated that reverting back to the pre-2014 policy on Cuba would have shown “a strong commitment to human rights and democracy” and pleased anti-Castro “interest groups,” but would have also come with a number of risks. “Global adversaries, such as Iran, Russia and China, would likely develop an even stronger footing in Cuba” if ties with the island were severed, the NSC document says. The memo warned that cutting off relations would have eliminated economic and political leverage over Cuba to extract reforms, damaged U.S. objectives in Latin America, hurt U.S. businesses that invested in Cuba and jeopardized collaboration with Cuban authorities on national security issues, including fugitives and migration.
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Trump NEEDS Florida in 2020 and this just might do it for him.
Same same with high-profile PA coal mine opening, etc.
Only people crying about this change are boat-owning Florida child-molesters.
What is with all these anti-American anti-Patriots infecting the Fed government? What losers. Find them and hang them on the WDC mall, letting them rot.
I'm talking a public hanging, televised during prime time, at the Washington monument. Maybe from the Washington monument.
Does Trump not realize that the United States is under attack from forces within the United States itself?
He needs to declare war on domestic criminals now! I only come short of using the word ‘terrorists’.
Lol, so until 2014 when the magic negro “freed” Cuba from our sanctions (remember we were the only nation with travel and business investment restrictions), all the things that are going to happen to us now were happening to us then?
Russia walked away from Cuba long ago and all they had was Venezuela and they are dead broke.
One of these leakers should be found, arrested, tried and once found guilty, an example made of.
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Why would they stop leaking? Comey has admitted he was (probably still is) a leaker. I certainly do not see him being punished.
Until one of these LOSERS go to prison it’s not going to stop.
EXACTLY.....You descibe Broward county perfectly
I'm talking a public hanging, televised during prime time, at the Washington monument. Maybe from the Washington monument.
As far as stopping them from leaking, that would probably do it.
It is more important to these liberals to hurt Trump than do what is good for the nation.
How do you know they are really leaks?
The fake news has figured out how to get a double whammy by...
a) Making up a story about something the administration is allegedly doing or considering doing that would be politically divisive. Something that suggests a campaign promise is being broken, or there is infighting, etc.
b) attributing it to a leak from within the administration so as to make it appear to be a credible inside source, yet at the same time explaining why it must be anonymous. This also has the advantage of suggesting the administration is incompetent and disloyal to the POTUS.
Once the lazy and dishonest MSM realized they could simply invent these “stories” and call them leaks, and get away with it, why would they ever bother doing the real work of journalism, and limiting themselves to reality?
Why would they want to print stories that are true, which often portray Trump as a success, and which will therefore get buried below the fold on the back page when they can print fiction, which makes Trump look bad, and which will therefore make the front page?
Don’t believe these are leaks just because the lying MSM says they are.
How do you know they are really leaks?
The fake news has figured out how to get a double whammy by...
a) Making up a story about something the administration is allegedly doing or considering doing that would be politically divisive. Something that suggests a campaign promise is being broken, or there is infighting, etc.
b) attributing it to a leak from within the administration so as to make it appear to be a credible inside source, yet at the same time explaining why it must be anonymous. This also has the advantage of suggesting the administration is incompetent and disloyal to the POTUS.
Once the lazy and dishonest MSM realized they could simply invent these “stories” and call them leaks, and get away with it, why would they ever bother doing the real work of journalism, and limiting themselves to reality?
Why would they want to print stories that are true, which often portray Trump as a success, and which will therefore get buried below the fold on the back page, when they can print fiction, which makes Trump look bad, and which will therefore make the front page?
Don’t believe these are leaks just because the lying MSM says they are.
Let me point to the second part of my post:
I’m talking a public hanging, televised during prime time, at the Washington monument. Maybe from the Washington monument.
As far as stopping them from leaking, that would probably do it.
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Yup...
The shadow government trying to undermine Trump and preserve the Obama legacy.
There is no national security administration. There are only Leftist saboteurs and provocateurs using the name.
I wonder if this is another “leak” tailor made to find the rats within the NSA.
It’s the National Security Agency! I knew some of them during the 60’s. They would never have given up info to a news source.
headline is wrong, says “NSA” when it should say “NSC” big difference!
Most of these “leaks” these days aren’t even leaks, they’re simply bits of fiction put out by the media. The left of course is against Trump’s Cuba actions, to this is probably more bits of their fiction.
Since Cuba has always called our embargo a “blockade”, maybe we should have a real blockade?
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