{"id":88084,"date":"2017-10-31T16:37:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T20:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=88084"},"modified":"2017-10-31T16:41:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T20:41:11","slug":"why-were-the-russian-diplomats-so-hastily-expelled-from-the-u-s-in-december-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=88084","title":{"rendered":"Why were the Russian diplomats so hastily expelled from the U.S. in December 2016?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Unmasking of Trump campaign members by the Obama Administration may be directly related&#8212;developing<\/h2>\n<p><!--more-->SOTN Guest Author<\/p>\n<p>In a meeting in Seoul, Korea in March 2016, Obama, unaware of his \u201chot mic\u201d leaned over and whispered to Medvedev, \u201cThis is my last election. After this election, I will have more flexibility,\u201d referring to the 2012 election. Medvedev promised to tell Putin this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/obama-to-russia-after-my-election-i-have-more-flexibility\/article\/634473\">http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/obama-to-russia-after-my-election-i-have-more-flexibility\/article\/634473<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whatever did Obama mean?<\/p>\n<p>The recent Uranium One revelations are fascinating given what this could mean for so-called \u201cno-drama-Obama.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On December 30, 2016, Obama signed an Executive Order issuing sanctions against Russia, including seizure of two compounds in Maryland and New York and expelling 35 Russian spies working in San Francisco and Washington, DC, sending them unceremoniously back to Russia with their families with 72 hours to pack their bags. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/FR-2017-01-03\/pdf\/2016-31922.pdf\">http:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/FR-2017-01-03\/pdf\/2016-31922.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Where these Russians lived, and who they were, is somewhat mysterious. They were spies, after all.<\/p>\n<p>ELMCROFT\/NORWICH HOUSE Stables in Upper Brookville, New York, is one of the seized compounds.<\/p>\n<p>At one location, Elmcroft House in Upper Brookville, New York, where up to 40 families could be accommodated, members of the Russian Mission to the United Nations were housed. Some who lived there were apparently expelled and the compound was seized. <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/12\/30\/us-officials-stand-guard-outside-russian-compound\/\">http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/12\/30\/us-officials-stand-guard-outside-russian-compound\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What did Russian diplomats to the United Nations do to merit expulsion? Could it be that Samantha Power was busy unmasking members of the Trump campaign, and that they assisted the NSA and UN Ambassador Power in these efforts?<\/p>\n<p>Could it be that the information was \u201claundered\u201d through foreign sources to deceive the FISA court, which then ordered surveillance on the Trump campaign?<\/p>\n<p>Could it be that Obama needed to whisk them back to Russia so that they could not testify? Samantha Power just the other day told Congress that she was not the one who made 260 unmasking requests in as many days during the 2016 election process, though they were made in her name. <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/09\/20\/samantha-power-allegedly-tried-to-unmask-americans-on-a-daily-basis\/\">http:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/09\/20\/samantha-power-allegedly-tried-to-unmask-americans-on-a-daily-basis\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She said, it wasn\u2019t me, it was my subordinates! <a href=\"http:\/\/aclj.org\/government-corruption\/former-senior-obama-official-samantha-power-blames-others-for-her-unmasking-scandal\">http:\/\/aclj.org\/government-corruption\/former-senior-obama-official-samantha-power-blames-others-for-her-unmasking-scandal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who were her subordinates who used only one original unmasking request up to 260 times? Is the expulsion of Russian spies linked to Samantha Power, the UN Ambassador?<\/p>\n<p>Worth noting another figure in the unmasking, Susan Rice, was Obama\u2019s UN Ambassador from 2009-13. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/2017\/03\/prweb14129480.htm\">http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/2017\/03\/prweb14129480.htm<\/a><br \/>\nShe is now on faculty at American University in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unmasking of Trump campaign members by the Obama Administration may be directly related&#8212;developing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}