Putin Hopes For Fresh Start With Trump After "Notorious" Mueller Commission Found Nothing

Russian president Vladimir Putin said he’s ready to turn the leaf on the first two years of diplomatic scandals between the US and Russia, and is seeking areas of cooperation with his US counterprart (and according to various now debunked lunatics, spy) Donald Trump, calling the furor over election-meddling allegations part of the deep political crisis in Washington. In his first public comments on the outcome of Robert Mueller’s investigation which found no collusion or conspiracy between Trump and Russia, Putin welcomed the controversial findings. "We said from the very start that this notorious commission of Mr. Mueller wouldn’t find anything because we know this better than anyone,” Putin told the International Arctic Forum in St. Petersburg on Tuesday, adding that it was "utter nonsense aimed solely at a domestic audience and used for internal political struggle in the U.S." In retrospect, he was right.

As a reminder, Trump scored the biggest political victory of his presidency - even as the credibility of the US liberal medial plumbed new lows - last month after AG William Barr published a summary of Mueller’s finding that there was no collusion during the campaign. Trump, who repeatedly - and correctly - condemned the 22-month inquiry as a "witch hunt" said he’d been completely exonerated. Agreeing with his US colleague, Putin said that witch hunts are "a black page" in U.S. history and "I would not like it ever to happen again" (here the conspiracy nuts should be ready to chime in with a witty rejoinder). The outcome of the Mueller investigation showed that “a mountain gave birth to a mouse,” the Russian president said.

While Putin said when the two leaders met in Helsinki last year that he’d wanted Trump to win the 2016 election because of his pledge to improve relations - and because Hillary Clinton's State Department did everything in its power to set the stage for a war between Russia and Ukraine - he avoided generating more controversy, and said he supports Trump's re-election in 2020. "We respect the wishes of the American people,” he said. "Whoever is president, we’re ready to work with them."

To be sure, much bad blood remains between the US "deep state" and Moscow: recall that US intelligence agencies "concluded" that Russia was behind hacking aimed at damaging Democratic Party contender Hillary Clinton (which unveiled that the DNC had rigged the primaries against Bernie Sanders, and that Hillary Clinton was a professional in saying one thing to the public and something else to Wall Street). Russia, naturally, rejects the allegations. Trump pledged during his campaign to improve ties with Russia and has repeatedly said he wants good relations with Putin. As for how the former KGB spy and Trump are getting along currently, Putin said he has "plenty of disagreements" with Trump, whose administration has imposed a series of new sanctions on his country, but is ready to work with the U.S. on issues of joint interest including terrorism and arms control. “We hope that when this situation normalizes, opportunities will emerge for bilateral cooperation on all issues,” Putin said.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-09/putin-hopes-fresh-start-trump-after-notorious-mueller-commission-found-nothing

>>6119972

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Senior Obama Cyber Official Lobbying for China

Huawei hires Samir Jain, ex-White House NSC cyber security chief

China's government-linked telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies has hired a senior Obama administration cyber security official as a lobbyist, according to a congressional filing. Samir Jain, former senior director for cybersecurity policy at the White House National Security Council, notified Congress March 27 that he is registering as a lobbyist for the Shenzhen-based Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Jain is now with the lobbying firm Jones Day. According to his online biography for Jones Day, Jain worked at the White House from 2016 to 2017 and before that was an associate deputy attorney general from 2014 to 2015, where he worked on national security and computer fraud issues. At the White House, Jain led a team responsible for cyber incident response and was chairman of an interagency group that reviewed proposed cyber operations by the U.S. government. He also worked on international issues, such as a campaign to win support for U.S.-proposed international cyber norms. While at the Justice Department, Jain also took part in international negotiations "such as China's agreement not to engage in cyber-enabled intellectual property theft for commercial gain," his bio states. That agreement between President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping in September 2015 has been violated by continued Chinese efforts to steal American technology and other intellectual property through cyber espionage.

Rob Joyce, a senior adviser for cybersecurity at the National Security Agency told a conference in San Francisco in November that China has violated the pledge made by Xi to halt cyber economic spying. "It's clear that they are well beyond the bounds today of the agreement," Joyce said. "We have certainly seen their behavior erode in the last year and we’re very concerned with those troubling trends." Jain did not return emails seeking comment on the lobbying.

The Obama administration adopted conciliatory policies toward China's aggressive cyber espionage and technology theft. For example, after Chinese hackers stole 22 million records from the Office of Personnel Management, including highly sensitive records of Americans who hold security clearances, the administration would not identify China's spies as the culprit.

White House National Security Adviser John Bolton identified China as the actor that conducted the OPM cyber attack in announcing a new strategy against cyber espionage in September. It was the first time a senior U.S. official had publicly named the Chinese for the OPM hack. "You may recall the hacking of the Office of Personnel Management by China, where potentially millions of personnel records—my own included, and maybe some of yours, from former government employees—has now found a new residence in Beijing," Bolton said. "That's the kind of threat to privacy from hostile foreign actors that we're determined to deter." Intelligence officials believe China is using the records stolen from the OPM for both human spying and cyber espionage operations. The hiring of Jain to lobby for Huawei appears to be part of a major propaganda and influence campaign by the Chinese government to counter the U.S. government crackdown on Huawei.

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/senior-obama-cyber-official-lobbying-for-china/

>>6120046

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>>6120151

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