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The Trump administration has waived part of the punishment for five megabanks whose affiliates were convicted and fined for manipulating global interest rates. One of the Trump administration waivers was granted to Deutsche Bank — which is owed at least $130 million by President Donald Trump and his business empire, and has also been fined for its role in a Russian money laundering scheme.
The waivers were issued in a little-noticed announcement published in the Federal Register during the Christmas holiday week. They come less than two years after then-candidate Trump promised “I'm not going to let Wall Street get away with murder.”
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"History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions."
-- Ted Koppel
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 11 2018, @06:39PM (2 children)
Weird how openly invading a country supposedly protected under the non-proliferation treaty and mounting massive state-funded cyber campaigns against governments in most of the western world would turn Democrats against you?
Must be a Hollywood conspiracy.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Phoenix666 on Thursday January 11 2018, @08:47PM (1 child)
Yet Obama and the Media were not screaming, "OMG! OMG! The Russians are coming!!!" when they summarily annexed the Crimea and went after Georgia or went into Ukraine.
As for meddling in the elections of other countries, the Russians certainly believed the US and Europe meddled in Ukraine's in order to further isolate Russia. We know, thanks to Snowden, that the NSA and CIA do things like that, and have departments dedicated to them. We know for a fact, thanks to the Monaco Papers, that American companies and the government actively undermine democratic governments in Africa and other places. So whether or not the US and Europe did use those capabilities to meddle in Ukraine's elections, the Russians believe they did and it would not be surprising if they tried to answer in kind.
Countries try to meddle in other countries' internal affairs all the time.
But let's say for the sake of argument that we should get our panties in a bunch because of it, and go on the warpath against foreign governments that have tried to influence and undermine American democracy. If so, then pray tell me why we have not nuked Israel until it glows, because they have been doing exactly that, very effectively, for decades through its agents, its lobby AIPAC--the third most powerful lobby in DC after the AARP and the NRA--, and its surrogates in the American Jewish and the evangelical Christian communities? They have skewed policy and legislation, huge issues, for all that time and have gotten us into wars that cost American lives over it.
I mean, if you're gonna get upset about this kind of issue, you gotta take Israel down first.
Of course, that's if, and only if, there is anything real behind these objections at all instead of the cynical manipulations by the lizard people who want all of us fighting each other instead of them...
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 11 2018, @10:30PM
They were screaming that, actually. Many folks like yourself were either not listening or somehow convinced by Putin's flimsy public denials (kinda like his public denials of active cyber campaigns).
We do not know, "thanks to Snowden", that the NSA and CIA engage in similar operations. In fact, Snowden was very careful not to release information regarding any operations (because that could put agents in danger). He only released information on capabilities. It wasn't really surprising to anyone in cyber security that the US (like every other major power) has programs dedicated to both domestic and foreign cyber capabilities. We have no evidence that they're being used aggressively. If they were, we'd probably have a Russian equivalent to the DNI report on “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections”. We don't.
There's a big difference between state funded hacking into a wide range of political and voting institutions and... lobbying.