Not only do they not correlate, but the idea that a Russian graduate student with no contacts or experience could coordinate and pull off a deal of this magnitude is purely ridiculous. Why, you’d have to believe that a reality tv star and failed businessman could become president.
pursued a plan to deliver a massive amount of jet fuel to the United States from Russia in cooperation with a former NRA president and his wife, a prominent lobbyist
But remember, Hillary was selling all of the US uranium supply to decorate Vlad the Impaleror’s palaces.
Aviation fuel is a fungible,'' meaning that everyone produces it to a common specification for transport and distribution and that different brands can be mixed without compromising integrity. In the case of aviation fuel, transportation over long distances is generally accomplished via pipeline, so the fungible standard that all aviation fuels have to meet is the pipeline spec.‘’ This means that Texaco Jet-A can be mixed with Phillips Jet-A and Chevron 100LL can be mixed in the pipe …
Thus, the stuff can be bought, sold, traded, etc. Sounds like a good way to launder money.
Donna Keene pressed Butina to make a deal with Gazprom. Butina approached other potential suppliers instead. Had she been a Russian agent, her lawyer asserts, she could easily have clinched the deal with Gazprom as requested. (Gazprom is majority state-owned and controlled.)
If her lawyer is making an argument, that may be it.
You beat me to it. I had some hare-brained ideas when I was in graduate school but figuring out a way to vend aviation fuel never crossed my mind. They may have given Mueller another lead, if he didn’t already know about it.
Maybe she’s slightly less obviously an oddball than that. But I’m sure at the fringes of the intelligence world generally is a whole swarming cloud of wannabe people who like to hint they’re connected.
See, it’s just because you are thinking LOGICALLY. Now, if you believed Hillary Clinton and John Podesta ran a teenage white sex-slave ring from the basement of a pizzeria in Washington, DC, then the connection would be crystal clear!
This makes sense to me if you think about russia not as a dictatorship with clear lines of command but as a crime syndicate where everybody gets to freelance as long as they deliver their cut to the capo and as long as they obey any direct orders
Butina’s lawyer told the Times the deal was “just further evidence that she wasn’t here on any mission on behalf of the Russian Federation.
Yeah, that Butina was trying to feather her own nest, or hook prospective operatives and patsies with greed as well as lust, hardly moves it out of the FSB’s domain. The lawyer’s words are just another Trumpian shiny object.
Tis ‘stupid Watergate,’ after all.
“Ronald Dawn Bump? Why, I could vote for him. He tells it like it is!”, he said, as he struggled to remove his trim 387-pound frame from his Rascal in the middle of the aisle in WalMart so he could struggle to reach for the box of aluminum foil to craft his newest hat.
But I’m sure at the fringes of the intelligence world generally is a whole swarming cloud of wannabe people who like to hint they’re connected.