{"id":30292,"date":"2017-11-15T12:55:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T20:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30292"},"modified":"2017-11-15T12:55:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T20:55:38","slug":"putin-gets-quo-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/15\/putin-gets-quo-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin Gets Quo Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Putin did for his Piddle Puppet, Donald Trump, is obvious.  Had Putin’s Russian operatives not intervened on Trump’s behalf, Trump would not be infesting the oval office today.  However, to benefit from the illegal act of another is not itself illegal.  In order to prove conspiracy, one must demonstrate quid pro quo<\/em>.  Now Trump’s quid<\/em> is obvious.  And here is another nice slice of quo <\/em>for Putin.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"1115st-basil\"<\/p>\n

The United States has awarded a contract to guard the U.S. embassy in Moscow to a company with KGB ties, The New York Times<\/a> reports. <\/p>\n

The State Department awarded the $2.8 million contract to Elite Security Holdings, a company co-founded by retired Russian general Viktor Budanov. <\/p>\n

A State Department official told the Times that the company has been properly "vetted" and will only carry out security tasks previously handled by local guards hired by the embassy. <\/p>\n

The firm will operate at the Moscow embassy, as well as U.S. consulates in three other Russian cities. U.S. Marines will still guard the grounds and high security locations of the outposts. <\/p>\n

Budanov, 82, previously led Soviet counterintelligence as the head of the KGB, where he oversaw now-Russian President Vladimir Putin when he was a young intelligence officer<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <The Hill<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

On the surface, this might not seem like a very big deal, but it is.  Rachel Maddow<\/a> spent 24 minutes setting up the history and explaining why it is such a big deal.<\/font><\/p>\n