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Obama tosses 35 Russians out of US, sanctions others for election meddling

Obama tosses 35 Russians out of US, sanctions others for election meddling

January 3, 2017

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In an executive order issued today, President Barack Obama used his emergency powers to impose sanctions on a number of Russian military and intelligence officials and also to eject 35 Russians labeled by the administration as intelligence operatives. The order was issued as a response to the breach of the Democratic National Committee’s network and the targeted intrusion into e-mail accounts belonging to members of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

Obama made the sanctions an extension of an April 2015 executive order “to take additional steps to deal with the national emergency with respect to significant malicious cyber-enabled activities.”

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