{"id":289162,"date":"2017-01-08T15:26:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T14:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-politicians-intelligence-move-to-cut-french-neo-fascists-ties-to-russia\/"},"modified":"2017-01-08T15:26:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T14:26:59","slug":"us-politicians-intelligence-move-to-cut-french-neo-fascists-ties-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-politicians-intelligence-move-to-cut-french-neo-fascists-ties-to-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"US politicians, intelligence move to cut French neo-fascists\u2019 ties to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"page\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>US politicians, intelligence move to cut French neo-fascists\u2019 ties to Russia<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Alex Lantier<br \/>\n    <br \/>7 January 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Amid bitter political infighting in Washington over the foreign policy of the incoming Trump administration, sections of the US intelligence community have moved aggressively to cut across French neo-fascist presidential candidate Marine Le Pen\u2019s ties to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The American media and the intelligence apparatus are whipping up a hysterical campaign accusing Moscow of intervening in the US presidential elections to secure a Donald Trump victory. As these same forces intervene in an effort to cut off financing to Le Pen\u2019s National Front (FN) party and denounce Le Pen\u2019s ties to Russia, the explosive geo-strategic rivalries underlying the campaign against Russia in the United States and Europe are emerging into view.<\/p>\n<p> On December 18, the satirical <em>Canard Encha\u00een\u00e9<\/em> weekly revealed that Ohio Republican Rep. Mike Turner of the House Intelligence Committee had written a November 28 letter to US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, warning of the FN\u2019s ties to Russia.<\/p>\n<p> Turner noted that the FN \u201cpublicly acknowledged that it had received a $9.8 million loan from a Russian bank with links to the Kremlin, allegedly brokered by a sanctioned Russian Duma deputy, according to French press reporting. \u2026 In February 2016, the FN asked Russia for a $30 million load to fund the FN leader Marine Le Pen\u2019s 2017 campaign.\u201d Turner also noted Marine Le Pen\u2019s support for Russian control of Crimea\u2014after which the Washington-backed regime in Ukraine declared Le Pen <em>persona non grata<\/em>, banned from travel to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Turner urged Clapper to find \u201cmore details\u201d on \u201cthis vast campaign\u201d of \u201cinformation war against the United States and other&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/01\/07\/lepe-j07.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 US politicians, intelligence move to cut French neo-fascists\u2019 ties to Russia By Alex Lantier 7 January 2017 Amid bitter political infighting in Washington over the foreign policy of the incoming Trump administration, sections of the US intelligence community have moved aggressively to cut across French neo-fascist presidential candidate Marine Le Pen\u2019s ties to Russia. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-289162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}