WASHINGTON — The Trump administration let a top Russian spy official visit the United States last week for meetings with U.S. intelligence officials even though there are sanctions against him that typically prohibit such visits, officials said Tuesday. The Russian ambassador to the U.S., Anatoly Antonov, said on Russian state TV that Sergei Naryshkin, head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, met with his U.S. counterparts about the fight against terrorism. The visit came less than a week before President Donald Trump decided not to issue any new sanctions against Russian politicians and oligarchs over Russian meddling in the U.S. election. We sanctioned the head of their foreign intelligence, and then the Trump administration invites him to waltz through our front door. He said there are cases where individuals from sanctioned countries enter the United States after getting permission to attend meetings at the United Nations.

Source: National Post January 31, 2018 00:11 UTC