CIA’s recruitment campaign hits a bump with bad grammar

DOH!

"Operating out in the open, whether looking for new recruits or otherwise, carries risk. Once your work is exposed, so are your mistakes. As it turned out, the recruitment poster had a grammatical error.

Words were garbled during the translation from English to Cyrillic, and the syntax in the poster was wrong. The poster had "a glaring mistake", as Russia's state-financed media outlet RT gleefully reported.

The mistake was a subject-verb agreement issue - the sentence on the poster was written partly in English and partly in Russian. The first part of the sentence included a noun - "your mastery of foreign languages" - and appeared in Russian. The second part of the sentence included a verb - "are vitally important to our national security" - and was written in English. In fact, the verb should have been "is" - not "are".

Still a misalignment between subject and verb is a common mistake in either language. The sentence that appeared on the CIA poster was "just a little bit wrong," as Sergei Goryashko, a reporter for BBC Russian, points out."

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48032270

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un departs for Russia by train on Wednesday: KCNA

Apparently little apprehensive of plane travel? hmmmmmm?

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un departed for Russia on Wednesday morning by private train, state media Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said on Wednesday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet on Thursday in the Russian Pacific port of Vladivostok to discuss the international standoff over Pyongyang’s nuclear program, a Kremlin official previously said.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-russia/north-korean-leader-kim-jong-un-departs-for-russia-by-train-on-wednesday-kcna-idUSKCN1RZ2EQ?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

IRS fails to meet congressional deadline to hand over Trump tax returns

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday failed to meet a congressional deadline for turning over President Donald Trump’s tax returns to lawmakers, setting the stage for a court battle between Congress and the administration.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-tax/irs-fails-to-meet-congressional-deadline-to-hand-over-trump-tax-returns-idUSKCN1RZ0W8?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

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Trump 'not inclined' to give tax returns to House panel: White House

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is unlikely hand over his tax returns to lawmakers despite a final deadline from the Democratic chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, a White House spokesman said on Tuesday.

“As I understand it, the president’s pretty clear: Once he’s out of audit, he’ll think about doing it, but he’s not inclined to do so at this time,” White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said in an interview on Fox News.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-tax-deadline/trump-not-inclined-to-give-tax-returns-to-house-panel-white-house-idUSKCN1RZ1NY?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

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Mnuchin says he cannot meet deadline to turn over Trump tax returns to House panel

Anons, headlines coming out faster that I can copy and paste..KEK

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Tuesday he cannot comply with a demand by a House of Representatives committee to turn over President Donald Trump’s tax returns “until it is determined to be consistent with law.”

In a letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, Mnuchin said he expected to have an answer to the committee’s demand by May 6 after consulting with the Justice Department. The committee had set a 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT) Tuesday deadline for the Internal Revenue Service to turn over Trump’s returns.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-tax-mnuchin/mnuchin-says-he-cannot-meet-deadline-to-turn-over-trump-tax-returns-to-house-panel-idUSKCN1RZ2FX?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

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