This is the story of how, in the hyperactive Age of Trump, something that initially appeared to be a major change in policy turned into a nothing-burger.
Early Feb. 2 morning, both political and journalistic antennae shot up when the Treasury Department posted a brief paragraph titled “Publication of Cyber-related General License.” Pursuant to last month’s sanctions by the Obama administration on Russia’s intelligence service for interfering in the U.S. election, it said, “certain transactions” with the service, known as the FSB, were to be authorized.
