U.S. Officials 'at a Fucking Loss' Over Latest Russia Sell Out

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Source: The Daily Beast

The White House’s refusal to rule out turning over former U.S. ambassador Michael McFaul to the Russians has current and former State Department officials seeing red.

State Department officials seeing red.

SPENCER ACKERMAN 07.18.18 5:36 PM ET

Current and former American diplomats are expressing disgust and horror over the White House’s willingness to entertain permitting Russian officials to question a prominent former U.S. ambassador.

One serving diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said he was “at a fucking loss” over comments that can be expected to chill American diplomacy in hostile or authoritarian countries – a comment echoed by former State Department officials as well.

“It’s beyond disgraceful. It’s fundamentally ignorant with regard to how we conduct diplomacy or what that means. It really puts in jeopardy the professional independence of diplomats anywhere in the world, if the consequence of their actions is going to be potentially being turned over to a foreign government,” the U.S. diplomat told The Daily Beast.

During President Trump’s press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Putin pivoted a question about extraditing the 12 Russian intelligence officers whom Robert Mueller has indicted into a quid pro quo for going after longtime betes noire currently beyond his reach.



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If trump tries to do this I am hoping that thousands of people will stand outside Former Ambassador McFaul home and let trump know that they will have to go through the human shield................

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1. Rachel Maddow is reporting on this now

She had McFaul on to comment. He said this is unprecedented and they have had more than enough time to consider US policy on this.

And she apologized for not having used asterisks for the swear words when they showed the headline.

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3. I caught that...

[Rhiannon12866]

4. And then Lawrence followed up with the news that Trump knew in January of 2017

That the Russians hacked the election - yet continued to deny it until, well today. Big news night!

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2. Russians never forgave McFaul for this

McFaul talks about how those technologies russians take for granted are american-made, which provoked a huge amount of butthurt from russians back then.