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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that’s why I captioned that Hill said they actually had the memo in hand. Hopefully they will get a visit and if it was faxed, the headers.
And thanks to whoever fixed the typo in the title!
b) attributing it to a leak
Do you work for the Washington Post?
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