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In reply to the discussion: I smell a big fat KGB rat in all this. [View all]Kid Berwyn
(17,176 posts)73. Cash Offers for Well-Qualified Manchurian Candidates
One of her last assignments before getting busted, arrested and deported to Russia where she now spies on the imprisoned Navalny.
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Take a moment to think about the staggering counterintelligence issues in the crazy Dec 18, 2020 WH meeting. A thread.
In the Oval Office, people advocated Trump illegitimately hold on to power, including using the military to seize voting machines.
That group included: (/1)
Mike Flynn, who who was paid by an organ of Russian state media to travel to Moscow to attend a dinner where he was seated next to Putin.
Flynn later plead guilty to lying to the FBI about conversations he had with the Russian Ambassador about election interference. (/2)
Patrick Byrne, one of several men once in an intimate relationship with convicted Russian agent Marina Butina.
Byrne gave money to Butina after her return to Russia, where she ran for the Duma, hounded Navalny, and supported the invasion of Ukraine. (/3)
Patrick Byrne, the pro-Trump former Overstock CEO admits funneling cash to his ex-lover Maria Butina, the glamorous spy expected to be elected to Russia's parliament
Maria Butina, a spy jailed and deported by the US, is standing for the Russia's parliament. Insider spoke to Patrick Byrne about their relationship.
https://www.businessinsider.com/pro-trump-former-overstock-ceo-gave-russian-spy-ex-lover-money-2021-9
Rudy Giuliani, who repeatedly met with and took info from sanctioned Russian agents like Andrii Derkach, despite USIC warnings to the White House in 2019 that Trumps personal lawyer was the target of an influence operation by Russian intelligence (/4)
washingtonpost.com/national-secur
So in this tiny meeting in the Oval Office where options to upend US democracy were advanced to the President of the United States, there were not one, not two, but three people directly linked to sanctioned and convicted agents of the Russian government. (/5)
While I doubt Russia planned it, their efforts to gain access to Trumps inner sanctum succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
And it demonstrates just how successful seemingly amateurish intelligence activity can be. (6/end)
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Tip o the hat to NevilleDog.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216933009
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"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist"
Progressive Lawyer
May 2023
#2
If the Devil changed his name from Lucifer to Bob, does that mean the devil no longer exists?
Progressive Lawyer
May 2023
#13
It's very simplistic. Just try calling it for what it is not what you think it is.
JanMichael
May 2023
#14
Highlighting just because the KGB does not exist in name does not mean it ceases to exist in spirit.
Progressive Lawyer
May 2023
#16
Would you have preferred : Russian Intelligence Services and their myriad of Sections Heads of
msfiddlestix
May 2023
#88
Thank you for the history review. This is info that Jack Smith is well aware of.
ancianita
May 2023
#25
KBG??...you try to dilute..BTW, it WAS the KGB.. same shit, different pile..
asiliveandbreathe
May 2023
#15
Like "Elvis isn't dead. He just went home." (Men in Black), the KGB simply changed their name.
paleotn
May 2023
#34
Apparently some commentators on this forum don't understand innuendo. KGB eq FSB
erronis
May 2023
#8
Nope. The FSB (former KGB) is internal (kinda like FBI) and GRU is international military intel.
ancianita
May 2023
#28
Please link the timeline. While they now exist simultaneously, the KGB were prior to the GRU.
ancianita
May 2023
#49
I love the deflection going on here. "The gun that killed 12 people wasn't really an assault weapon"
NBachers
May 2023
#29
The NRA is basically insolvent. It has maxed out its line of credit which it had been using .....
mjvpi
May 2023
#41
I've seriously been wondering how much right wing propaganda has originated from Russia.
Initech
May 2023
#47
Since Murdoch has been busy in Aus, Eng, USA, elsewhere - wouldn't we look at his family
erronis
May 2023
#56
Funny -- that we have no "honest and true" press is ALSO Russian propaganda warfare.
Hortensis
May 2023
#80