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Trump administration to hit Russia with new sanctions for Skripal poisoning
NBC News ^ | Aug.08.2018 | Josh Lederman

Posted on 08/08/2018 1:34:39 PM PDT by McGruff

The Trump administration is hitting Russia with new sanctions punishing President Vladimir Putin's government for using a chemical weapon against an ex-spy in Britain, U.S. officials told NBC News Wednesday.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo signed off on a determination that Russia violated international law by poisoning the former spy, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter in March, officials said, a decision that was announced Wednesday afternoon by State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert.

Although the U.S. joined European countries in publicly blaming Moscow within days of the attack, the Trump administration had never issued the formal determination that triggers automatic sanctions under a decades-old U.S. law on chemical weapons.

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TOPICS: Anthrax Scare; Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Germany; Russia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; angelamerkel; brexit; chemicalweapons; election2018; election2020; emmanuelmacron; espionage; europeanunion; finland; france; germany; helsinki; macron; nato; putin; putinsbuttboys; russia; sanctions; sergeiskripal; theresamay; trumpputin; trumprussia; unitedkingdom; wmd
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To: Mariner

Information obtained from the US federal contracts registry reveals that the Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has funded a number of military projects performed at #PortonDown, over the last decade

https://govtribe.com/contract/idv/hdtra112d0003


61 posted on 08/09/2018 11:19:22 PM PDT by sockmonkey (I am an America First, not Israel First FReeper.)
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To: Ann Archy
hmmmm….MAYBE Steele is the Poisoner!!

And he did it to help Trump in 2020....

62 posted on 08/10/2018 2:27:44 AM PDT by trebb (Too many "Conservatives" who think their opinions outweigh reality these days...)
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To: AAABEST

Good points, except Putin didn’t even manage to kill them. They mysteriously recovered after a dose of military grade toxins .... ok ...


63 posted on 08/10/2018 3:30:06 PM PDT by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: McGruff

The entire charge is ridiculous. There is no way in the world that a professional organization like Russian intelligence is going to order any operative to use any kind of a poison gas to kill an individual target. The 99% chance is that the spy or operative being given such an order would simply pull out his service pistol and shoot the idiot trying to give the order or relay the order to him.


64 posted on 08/11/2018 2:51:59 AM PDT by ganeemead
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To: McGruff

Why is this USA business? It happened on British soil. Economic sanctions are acts of war and have already led to big wars. Too much of this is conjecture and could be deception.


65 posted on 08/12/2018 9:31:51 AM PDT by apoliticalone (Political correctness should be defined as news media that exposes political corruption)
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