Discussion: Butina Sentenced To 18 Months For Conspiracy To Act As A Foreign Agent

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Why, it’s just the same time as having two American anchor babies!

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Russian spies, GOP luminaries, and the NRA. Obviously all just part of an attempted coup by the libtards.

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People will still be calling her a “spy” years from now. At least the people still living in a Tom Clancy novel.

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Whole lot of wrinkly old white egomaniacs in the GOP just discovered how costly a “free” b*** job can be.

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What would you call her?

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comrade?

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White collar crime is where it’s at*: if you get in trouble, you’re gonna have an easy stint and get a slap on the wrist for these allegedly “serious crimes.”

And no, Manafort isn’t the exception: he’ll be at federal Camp Fluffy for barely just as long in the end.

*Except you gotta be white.

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A foreign agent. Or a “spotter”. The charge is that she failed to register under FARA. That’s it. She’s not a spy.

Four former intelligence agents familiar with Russian espionage investigations spoke to USA Today about Butina’s case. Jack Devine, a high-ranking former CIA agent said, “That does not fit any spy that I can think of.” He meant that she was what was called a “spotter”, an individual who gains access to a high-ranking official through a political cause and then sends any information to powerful foreign officials.

So, basically a person doing what spies do but somehow not a spy. Gotcha.

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Seems to me that a “spotter” is just a lower level sub category of spy. She gained access to high ranking people and sent information about them to someone who passed it to the Kremlin. Therefore, the people she did that to are spied on and info sent to foreign officials.

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In America you can get the de facto death sentence for selling a loose cigarette on the street but get a raise + keep your job & bonuses for bank fraud committed across all 50 states. What a country. Successful criminals must aim higher and wear white shirts.

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I’m guessing the key difference being that she didn’t conceal her actions - they were quite public. What she failed to do was register with FARA - if she had done that one thing, there would be no case. Spies are secretive.

They describe her as a variation of a “spotter,” a person who makes connections in the U.S. and passes information to more senior Russian espionage officials. Her “influence” campaign, they said, sought grassroots goodwill toward Russia.

But she was not working in the shadows. Butina gave interviews and speeches, published articles and posed for magazine photos.

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I think the definition of living in a Tom Clancy novel is to believe that “spy” is applicable to only dudes in mackintoshes with microfilm in their underpants.

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Upon deportation, I suggest that she avoid drinking tea. Although it might not help in the end, I also suggest getting a ground floor or basement apartment.

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As someone well before me noted, if you really want to rob the bank, just run it.

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Says he with Boris avatar…

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painted Butina as an ambitious young woman who “wanted to fit in both worlds” — the United States and Russia.

Sounds like a candidate for the next opening in Trump’s Cabinet.

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Endlessy fascinating that Russia knew the best way to harm the United States was to manipulate conservatives.

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Quibbling about not knowing the proper term, like calling a magazine a “clip,” is to some minds a way to dismiss and not hear anything else a person might say. Or derail the conversation, or jack a thread, you know, just the average day for some people.

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