Comment: Funny that The Atlantic slams BuzzFeed for not sifting through this report and determining what was true, but nothing is said about CNN who reviewed it and, despite massive errors, ridiculous allegations and unverifiable information, presented it as a serious report that 'should be acted upon as necessary'. Compare their two publications.

From CNN:

Classified documents presented last week to President Obama and President-elect Trump included allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump, multiple US officials with direct knowledge of the briefings tell CNN.[...]

One high level administration official told CNN, "I have a sense the outgoing administration and intelligence community is setting down the pieces so this must be investigated seriously and run down. I think [the] concern was to be sure that whatever information was out there is put into the system so it is evaluated as it should be and acted upon as necessary."

And BuzzFeed:

The dossier, which is a collection of memos written over a period of months, includes specific, unverified, and potentially unverifiable allegations of contact between Trump aides and Russian operatives, and graphic claims of sexual acts documented by the Russians. BuzzFeed News reporters in the US and Europe have been investigating various alleged facts in the dossier but have not verified or falsified them. CNN reported Tuesday that a two-page synopsis of the report was given to President Obama and Trump.

Now BuzzFeed News is publishing the full document so that Americans can make up their own minds about allegations about the president-elect that have circulated at the highest levels of the US government.

At least now those who have two neurons firing can see, yet again, how low their media and intelligence community has sunk.

Further reading:

• Deep State neocons have declared war on Trump
• CNN struggles to defend atrocious 'fake news' report
• CNN gets Trumped: Highlights of The Donald's first post-election press conference

Comment: Further reading: Rex Tillerson's secretary of state confirmation hearings

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Comment: US Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson also said in confirmation hearings at the US Senate on Wednesday he would advise President-elect Donald Trump after taking office to veto any legislation that would lift the trade embargo on Cuba.

"If confirmed, yes I would," Tillerson stated when asked if he would veto a bill to lift Washington's trade embargo on Cuba.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of state set a course for a potentially serious confrontation with Beijing on Wednesday, saying China should be denied access to islands it has built in the contested South China Sea.

In comments expected to enrage Beijing, Rex Tillerson told his confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee that China's building of islands and putting military assets on those islands was "akin to Russia's taking Crimea" from Ukraine.

Asked whether he supported a more aggressive posture toward China, he said: "We're going to have to send China a clear signal that, first, the island-building stops and, second, your access to those islands also is not going to be allowed."

The former Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) chairman and chief executive did not elaborate on what might be done to deny China access to the islands it has built up from South China Sea reefs, equipped with military-length airstrips and fortified with weapons.

Trump's transition team did not immediately respond to a request for specifics on how China might be blocked from the artificial islands.

Latest statements U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump and his nominee for the position of the Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, have been making on Russia are meant much more for the audiences in the U.S. Senate than for defining the Russian vector of U.S. foreign policies, Leonid Slutsky, the chairman of the State Duma foreign policy committee said on Thursday.

"Tillerson appeared at the hearings in the Senate where he the approval of his candidature for the top post at the Department of State is to take place and the latest events show the strength of anti-Russian sentiments among the Senate's Democrats and Republicans likewise," Slutsky said. "That's why the statements made by Tillerson were, in most probability, aimed at pleasing that audience."

Along with it, he singled out Tillerson statement on Crimea. "If you take a deeper look at it, I got interest not only in the declarations on sanctions, cyberattacks and the like stuff, as they were quite expectable. I took note of the Crimean issue."

He recalled Tillerson's words that the U.S. would recognize Crimea's reunification with Russia only if the situation around the peninsula would be settled in a way Ukraine would find suitable.

"He said the only way to make this possible would be a broader arrangement respecting the interests of the Ukrainian people but it's known perfectly well Ukraine is a territory under external administration and Washington is handling a remote for it," Slutsky said. "Does this mean the start of a process of recognition instead of the 'Return Crimea' categorical demand?"

"Also, Tillerson doesn't deny essentiality of a dialogue with Moscow," he said. "In spite of the tough rhetoric, this leaves an opportunity for the restoration of constructive aspects of Russian-American relationship."

See also: Rex Tillerson's secretary of state confirmation hearings