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2018-08-06 Government
Why is Maria Butina in prison?
[AmericanThinker] If you believe the mass disinformation media, Maria Butina is just another Russian spy. She was arrested the day before Trump and Putin met based on the federal statute of being an "unregistered foreign agent." It seems that the arrest of Butina is the first time anybody has been arrested on this statute in the history of the United States. Although the prison term for the lack of registration of a foreign agent exists (five years), so far, the only punishments have been small fines.

There is every reason to believe that Butina is in prison because a lawyer by the name of Veselnitskaya is at large.

These two Russians are not connected by their Russian origin or their suspicious (and suspiciously successful) activities in America. They are connected because of the inexplicable desire of the Obama administration to see both of them on American soil.

...It looks as though both Veselnitskaya and Butina worked not for Russian intelligence, but rather for American intelligence,
Oh?
which, under Obama's leadership, organized full-scale surveillance of his political opposition during the 2016 election campaign.

...The game in which these two Russians were involved is much more serious than the Magnitsky Act (Veselnitskaya's primary activity) or the right to bear arms in Russia (Butina's primary business). We are talking about Obama's widespread usage of the state intelligence apparatus to spy on political opponents. This scandal ‐ Obamagate ‐ is thousands of times bigger than Watergate.

...Of course, all of us could be wrong, and maybe Butina is, in fact, a Russian spy like Veselnitskaya. However, despite circumstances that say the opposite, to be honest, I would very much prefer it. The point is that the professionalism of these "spies" is much lower than even the level of the clueless Russian spy Anna Chapman. After all, these Russian "spies" unmasked themselves long before crossing the U.S. border.

If Russian intelligence sends such "spies" to its most important adversary, then America has nothing to fear.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-08-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11145 views ]  Top

#1 ...It looks as though both Veselnitskaya and Butina worked not for Russian intelligence, but rather for American intelligence,
:Hah-hahaha: After I control my laughter, let me point out that -- There is No reason they didn't work for Both at the very Same time.
Posted by magpie 2018-08-06 11:00||   2018-08-06 11:00|| Front Page Top

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