Did anyone complian about WikiLeaks when it helped Tweety? Now it is WH leaks and everyone thinks those leaks are illegal.
"Trump’s continued defense of Putin confounds Republicans"
"In a Fox News interview, Trump, who during the campaign repeatedly praised Putin, again said that he respected the Russian leader and hoped to get along with Moscow, and he seemed to equate the United States with its adversary when pressed by host Bill O’Reilly, who said: “But he’s a killer, though. Putin’s a killer.”
“There are a lot of killers,” Trump said in the interview, which aired Sunday before the Super Bowl. “We’ve got a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country’s so innocent?”"
"In an interview with CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), called Putin “a former KGB agent” and “a thug,” and he rejected any comparison between the two nations, citing Russia’s annexation of Crimea, its incursions into Ukraine and its interference in the U.S. presidential election.
“I don’t think there’s any equivalency between the way that the Russians conduct themselves and the way the United States does,” McConnell said.
The senator added that while he hoped not to “critique the president’s every utterance,” he found significant differences between the two nations. “I do think America is exceptional. America is different,” McConnell said. “We don’t operate in any way the way the Russians do. I think there’s a clear distinction here that all Americans understand, and no, I would not have characterized it that way.”"
Tue Feb 7, 2017 | 3:43am EST
"Commentary: Here’s what could sink the Trump-Putin relationship"
"By Josh Cohen Donald Trump continues to defend Vladimir Putin. In his pre-Super Bowl interview with Bill O’Reilly, the U.S. president dismissed the Fox News host’s description of the Russian president as a “killer.” “There are a lot of killers,” said Trump. “What do you think? Our country’s so innocent?”"
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-100days-russia-commentary-idUSKBN15L0VQ
"Among the policy issues that could still drive a wedge between the United States and Russia:
Iran. Trump is sending contradictory signals on the nuclear deal with Tehran. As a candidate, he repeatedly promised to rip it up. As president, he may be looking to strengthen it. Putin will not want him to take the first option. Russia played a key role in bringing the Iran deal to fruition, in particular by developing solutions to reconcile Iran’s desire for a domestic uranium enrichment capacity with the West’s desire to limit this capability. Russia also continues to play an important part in the deal’s implementation. At the end of 2015 Moscow took possession of 25,000 pounds of Iran’s enriched uranium, and more recently – with the blessing of the Obama administration – Moscow shipped 116 metric tons of raw uranium to Iran in exchange for Tehran sending 44 tons of reactor coolant to Russia."
"Flynn's resignation likely the beginning of Trump's Russia woes – not the end"
National security adviser is the third Trump adviser forced to leave over reports of Kremlin contact, further raising suspicions of the Trump-Putin relationship
Julian Borger in Washington Tuesday 14 February 2017 10.40 EST
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/14/flynn-russia-trump-putin-relationship
