This got under way a bit ago. The center of National Interest. Cyber weapons and critical thatan infrastructure could be detonated in the future at some point. Pressures on capitol hill to step up with the u. S. Military Information Operations against russia. Retaliate for their propaganda activities in the United States. Are all things that are likely to coming down the road fairly soon. Likelyulative impact is to condition how russia responds the sanctions. Russians cant do a whole lot in that wouldntrea also hurt their own economic interest. Thingst them to do a few in the economic area in retaliation. Some things acy acy symmetrically. The initial passage that took of more than Ministry Statement and interview that putin gave on national television, both of those alluded to some things that russia could do asymmetrically the unitedse pain on states. I will just run through a list righte of those things now that i think are likely to materialize in the next several days. The economi
Thank you, everyone, very much for joining us today. Why dont we get started. I am paul saunders, the executive director of the center for the National Interest. Were pleased to see such a big group in the middle of august in washington. The traffic led me to think that the city was a little bit depopulated, but attendance clearly demonstrates otherwise and we appreciate all of you taking the time to come and be with us. We appreciate all of you taking the time to come be with us. I think we will have very interesting conversation today onut the new u. S. Sanctions russia. We have a couple of highly experienced speakers who will give us some perspective on that and we are quite grateful to them for taking the time out of their day to be with us. To my right we have dan russell, the president and ceo of the u. S. Russia business council. Diplomatformer career who was Deputy Assistant secretary of state responsible for russia, ukraine, moldova, belarus, and other matters. During the prev
Thank you, everyone, very much for joining us today. Why dont we get started. I am paul saunders, the executive director of the center for the National Interest. Were pleased to see such a big group in the middle of august in washington. The traffic led me to think that the city was a little bit depopulated, but attendance clearly demonstrates otherwise and we appreciate all of you taking the time to come and be with us. We appreciate all of you taking the time to come be with us. I think we will have very interesting conversation today onut the new u. S. Sanctions russia. We have a couple of highly experienced speakers who will give us some perspective on that and we are quite grateful to them for taking the time out of their day to be with us. To my right we have dan russell, the president and ceo of the u. S. Russia business council. Diplomatformer career who was Deputy Assistant secretary of state responsible for russia, ukraine, moldova, belarus, and other matters. During the prev
Director of the center for National Interest. A bigleased to see such group in the middle of august and washington. The traffic led me to think the city was a little bit depopulated but the attendance clearly demonstrates otherwise. We appreciate all of you taking the time to come be with us. I think we will have very interesting conversation today onut the new u. S. Sanctions russia. We have a couple of highly experienced speakers who will give us some perspective on that and we are quite grateful to them for taking the time out of their day to be with us. To my right we have dan russell, the president and ceo of the u. S. Russia business council. Diplomatformer career who was Deputy Assistant secretary of state responsible for russia, ukraine, moldova, belarus, and other matters. During the previous administration, the Obama Administration, he was also the deputy chief at the u. S. Embassy embassyw and the u. S. In cause extent in addition to a number of other important posts. George
Cartel of drug traffickers and i can tell you that there are individuals that i prosecuted in maximum facilities for much less egregious crimes than these individuals have perpetuated against the United States. It is just shocking to me that we have different standards in the federal system, medium max and super max and it is strange and itade that facility is perplexing at least to say the least. Gov. Haley i agree. Now have to ever considered or consulted about possibly taking legal action from stopping this from happening given that it is illegal under the law or that spendited states would any money to transfer individuals from Guantanamo Bay to the note states . Gov. Haley governor brownback and i both sent letters because at the time it was kansas and South Carolina that were states that were being strongly considered. We sent a letter to secretary carter saying that we absolutely didnt want to have this happen, have heardif i something, i will absolutely fight, i will absolutely