Kislyak going back to Russia, embassy says
Source: The Hill
Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador who has been a central figure in the controversies surrounding the Trump campaign's alleged ties to Moscow, is leaving Washington, the Russian embassy said Saturday.
"Ambassador S.Kislyak has concluded his assignment in Washington, DC Minister-Counselor D.Gonchar will act as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim," the embassy wrote on Twitter.
Kislyak has served as Russia's envoy to the U.S. since 2008, and is a rumored pick for a new position at the United Nations responsible for counterterrorism.
For most of his tenure in Washington, Kislyak maintained a relatively low profile. But that changed more recently amid revelations that he met with several members of President Trump's campaign.
Those meetings have come to light in the wake of the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that the Russian government sought to meddle in the 2016 election and swing the presidential race in Trump's favor.
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/international/343335-kislyak-going-back-to-russia-embassy-says
House of Roberts
(5,183 posts)The Trump Administration has finally caught on that he's really Russian.
Warpy
(111,339 posts)or whacked because dead men tell no tales.
question everything
(47,535 posts)figuratively or literally.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)dalton99a
(81,578 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)Bradical79
(4,490 posts)says everyone in the Trump administration
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)I swear I've heard it before tonight.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,040 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,459 posts)Buzzfeed broke the story and everyone else picked up on it.
Igel
(35,356 posts)Now, having the truth denied on the part of Russia is a fairly common thing.
But "denial = truth" isn't a valid syllogism. If denial means it's true, then the only way to say something is false is to confirm it--but that's insane. (Although that, too, has happened.)
DU's way down from its critical-thinking peak of years ago, accepting any rumor that we like as absolute truth, but since neither you nor I need to make crucial life-or-death decisions based on things like whether Whiney is leaving and Potter's taking over, I figure we can afford to wait out the rumor mill and go with confirmations. At least in such cases. (Now, about that Texas-sized asteroid that NASA and The Russian space agency both deny is going to hit the Earth in 78, no, make that 77 hours ...)
Let's just hope that Kislyak's then-rumored replacement was just a rumor.
I had seen subsequent stories that claimed that he wasn't leaving at all and that it was just a rumor, and still other stories that claimed he was going to be carrying out other functions, etc.
For some reason I still think he will be going regardless. The dynamic here and over yonder has changed and if one has an agenda, the purveyor of it wouldn't be someone whose name is being thrown about in news stories continually.
HAB911
(8,914 posts)Doug the Dem
(1,297 posts)It's the least he could do.
Nitram
(22,879 posts)yup. hope mueller gets him on record before he goes. tho i doubt we can compel a "diplomat" to talk.
Nitram
(22,879 posts)DK504
(3,847 posts)... will act as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim," the embassy wrote on Twitter. "
Sure get him out now that the destruction is done. Get him out before he's is up on charges, despite the fact he's an "ambassador".
Botany
(70,582 posts)n/t
Nitram
(22,879 posts)He was a loyal servant of the Kremlin, and he personally made no mistakes that would reflect badly on Russia. I think he has a good future ahead as an analyst of the American political system. By the way, the "n/t" is supposed to go into the subject line so the reader don't have to click on the message to see the rest of the post and find nothing there...
RealityChik
(382 posts)Plunge to his death from the 70th floor of some future Trump Tower Moscow after dining on polonium pie and shooting himself in the back of the head with a .50 caliber handgun.