Безответность

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Если доклад Нунеса стал по республиканской традиции широко раздутым псевдоскандвлом, то под ворохом новостей удалось успешно похоронить то скандальное обстоятельство, что администрация Трампа саботирует закон о санкциях и не предпринимает никаких иных шагов для ответа на российское вмешательство в выборы 2016 и для защиты выборов 2018 и 2020.

В Госдепе не делается ничего. По словам Тиллерсона, все равно бесполезно.

“I don't know that I would say we are better prepared, because the Russians will adapt as well,” Tillerson said in an exclusive interview with Fox News in Bogota, Colombia. “The point is, if it's their intention to interfere, they are going to find ways to do that. We can take steps we can take but this is something that, once they decide they are going to do it, it's very difficult to preempt it.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/06/russians-already-meddling-in-us-midterms-tillerson-says.html

В Минфине, по уверению Мнучина, над санкциями работают, но в строгом секрете.

Waters: The Congress of the United States does not know what you are doing. The Congress of the United States does not expect that your response to the public policy that was developed by us be somehow responded to in a classified way. Is there anything that you can tell us that you have done?
Mnuchin: Well, again, the law called for both a classified portion of the report, and an unclassified. Given that the majority of the work was developed on a classified basis, we classified the report. I'd encourage you and other members to look at it. It's an extensive amount of work, again, that -- the first phase was to develop the report and deliver it, which we did on time. And now we are developing sanctions on it. So I assure you we are very focused on this.
Waters: Well, I would encourage you to encourage the President to declassify any information that should be forthcoming to this Committee, just as he was able to do in the Nunes memo. He used his power of the President to declassify. I would suggest to you that, if information is declassified that should be available to this Congress, who voted overwhelmingly for sanctions on Russia, who undermined our democracy, those sanctions should be not delayed or waived, and we should have information about it. Let me continue. Is it the Treasury Department's position that no persons are engaged in significant transactions with Russia's defense and intelligence sectors?
Mnuchin: Again, I'm not going to comment on that, because that's not the portion that we're doing the work on.
Waters: Would you tell us again -- what are you doing the work on?
Mnuchin: Again, we did the work on what was referred to -- the oligarchs, as well as senior government officials. We detailed in the report where there was evidence of corruption, family relationships, net worth. We complied with a very extensive report that -- as I said, there is a classified version and an unclassified version. And we will be using the intelligence work where there is indications of corruption to follow this up with sanctions, which are -- are a very effective tool that we intend to use.
Waters: Are you referring to the work that you did on the oligarchs as the list of oligarchs that you lifted from the Forbes report?
Mnuchin: Again, we were very clear that the public, non-classified version is the universe that we looked at and was developed on open source -- both the oligarchs and the leaders. The classified report goes through that list in a very detailed manner, as well as other people that weren't on that list, that would have fallen below the billion-dollar threshold. So, again...

Следует напомнить, что в законе о санкциях говорится, что отчёт о путинских олигархах должен быть открытым, но к нему разрешается иметь секретное приложение: “The report required shall be submitted in an unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex.”
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/3364/text

В частности, о связях Олега Дерипаски с администрацией Путина хорошо было бы узнавать из этого доклада, а не из расследования Навального.

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