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Russian hacker claims FBI offered him citizenship and a new life if he would confess to hacking Pode
Newsweek via http://www.americanthinker.com ^ | By Tom O'Connor, Newsweek May 11, 2017 | By Tom O'Connor, Newsweek via Thomas Lifson, americanthinker.com blog

Posted on 05/12/2017 6:13:14 PM PDT by kindred

According to a report in Newsweek by Tom O’Connor, a Russian hacker who had been detained in Prague at the request of US authorities, was visited multiple times by FBI agents, who pressed him to confess to hacking the Podesta emails at the behest of Putin, and to help Trump. They allegedly (and unsuccessfully) offered generous inducements, to say the least.

Yevgeniy Nikulin, 29, has found himself in the middle of an international dispute between Washington and Moscow, at the very center of which lies U.S. allegations that Russia sponsored a series of hacks targeting Democratic Party candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in favor of Republican candidate and current President Donald Trump. On October 5, 2016, days before U.S. intelligence publicly accused Russia of endorsing an infiltration of Democratic Party officials' emails, Nikulin was arrested in Prague at the request of the U.S. on separate hacking charges. Now, Nikulin claims U.S. authorities tried to pin the email scandal on him.

Nikulin was detained in the Czech Republic for allegedly hacking the servers of major sites LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring between 2012 and 2013. While awaiting trial, he claims in an undated letter reportedly given to U.S. Russian-language news site Nastoyashchoe Vremya by Nikulin's lawyer, Martin Sadilek, that the FBI visited him at least a couple of times, offering to drop the charges and grant him U.S. citizenship as well as cash and an apartment in the U.S. if the Russian national confessed to participating in the 2016 hacks of Clinton campaign chief John Podesta's emails in July.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Russia
KEYWORDS: 201607; dropbox; formspring; guccifer2; guccifer20; linkedin; nikulin; russianhacker
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This account should be considered, there was a young man, a reporter, murdered after attending the DNC in Philadelphia while he was walking home from the convention late at night. Julian Assange mentioned the death of said man the very next day, all while the DNC was undergoing the hacking that resulted in the DNC being dismissed for fixing the primary for HRC. And considering the very odd and troubling behavior of Director Comey the last few weeks of the election, methinks there is more here than meets the eye and this is definitely a story that can bring a lot of DNC leaders down from their high perches. It should be investigated and I believe that Comey was one who helped to sweep a lot of things under the rug. Perhaps an just new FBI Director can find and bring this long running investigation to a conclusion, though DC is known for whitewashing so many criminal activities. God bless President Trump and give him wisdom and guide him safely during his administration to make America safe and secure from our enemies, both forign and domestic.
1 posted on 05/12/2017 6:13:14 PM PDT by kindred
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To: kindred

Looks like another stooge being set up as the fall guy, sort of like the man who made the video that caused the murder of the American ambassador to Libya.


2 posted on 05/12/2017 6:16:28 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: kindred

Don’t believe this. Russians, like Democrats, are congenital liars.


3 posted on 05/12/2017 6:18:49 PM PDT by SSS Two
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To: SSS Two

It is a strange story, perhaps it is a lie, I do not know. I do know that DC is a strange place with strange people doing strange things.


4 posted on 05/12/2017 6:20:46 PM PDT by kindred (Jesus Christ is Lord and Saviour. President Trump is restoring America !)
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To: kindred

He would have been assasinated by pro-Clinton peeps.


5 posted on 05/12/2017 6:21:56 PM PDT by Democrats hate too much
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To: kindred

I sure as heck don’t trust the FBI to tell the truth about anything concerning Clinton or president Trump.


6 posted on 05/12/2017 6:23:58 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Best Long Term Prepper Tactic: Beat The Muslim Takeover - Have Big Families)
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To: kindred
On October 5, 2016, days before U.S. intelligence publicly accused Russia of endorsing an infiltration of Democratic Party officials' emails, Nikulin was arrested in Prague



Seth Conrad Rich, a 27-year-old Democratic staffer shot on July 10.

So, if the speculation that he was on the way to spill some beans...

http://www.thewrap.com/wikileaks-julian-assange-dnc-democratic-national-committee-staffer-murdered-hillary-clinton-email-source/

because he had the story on what was being attempted by the offer to Yevgeniy Nikulin...

Yeah, that would be kinda bigly.

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7 posted on 05/12/2017 6:26:00 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: SSS Two

Could be a total deflection for the Seth Rich assassination.


8 posted on 05/12/2017 6:26:35 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: kindred

The swamp is very deep at the FBI. It will take a tough-minded individual as director and a small army of dedicated assistants to clean up this mess.


9 posted on 05/12/2017 6:26:56 PM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: kindred

Bring this young hacker in and submit him to a polygraph test. If he “passes” find out which FBI agents were involved. There is criminality involved here -— and that criminality may involve members of the deep state. And the criminality may reach into the high levels of our government.


10 posted on 05/12/2017 6:28:58 PM PDT by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison)
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To: kindred

If true, Comey should hang.


11 posted on 05/12/2017 6:30:40 PM PDT by PGalt
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The Gummint entity that saw fit to burn down a CHURCH full of 100 people, including 20 kids:

Would they also do THIS..?

CHILD’S PLAY..!!

They didn’t bat an eye.


12 posted on 05/12/2017 6:31:18 PM PDT by gaijin
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First thing they did after the conflagration died down:

Raised the ATF FLAG directly on the still-burning embers.

SOUNDS made-up, right..?

They did it on videotape.

13 posted on 05/12/2017 6:33:12 PM PDT by gaijin
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The kids the FBI killed at Waco:

(more kids than at Sandy Hook)

14 posted on 05/12/2017 6:37:29 PM PDT by gaijin
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Atlanta Olympics, 1996:

An overweight security guard Richard Jewell finds a bomb in a crowded Atlanta park, an act of terror. He alerts the cops, but the bomb goes off and a desperate Bill Clinton facing a reelection bid ORDERS the FBI to simplify things by making Richard Jewell the perp.

Knowing Richard Jewell revers “real cops” the FBI brings him in for questioning, finally pretending to relent and accept his story of innocence. They then flattered him and lowered his guard by chatting him up in grand style like A Law Enforcement Colleague.

The FBI then claimed to Jewell that they were making a Training Videotape simulation in which a perp under questioning breaks down and confresses to a bombing, “Ah shucks, our actor crapped out, got sick, say Richard, would ya help us FBI guys out..?”

A micrometer away from consenting to help them with their “training video”, Jewell suddenly realizes if he cooperated with “his friends”, they might turn around use the tape against him in the world famous bombing that just transpired.

He calls his ex-roomate, a lawyer, who admonishes Jewell that he’s in very grave danger. He leaves the FBI questioning and AVOIDS LIFE IN PRISON BY A WHISKER.

YOUR FBI IS **FINE** ACTING AS AN INSTRUMENT OF POLITICAL TERROR.

It started at least 20 years ago.

15 posted on 05/12/2017 6:40:33 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: SSS Two

These days, I’d believe a 29 year old Russian hacker before I’d believe the bureaucrats at the FBI

sad but true


16 posted on 05/12/2017 6:51:36 PM PDT by vooch (America First)
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To: gaijin

Good point, the left is truly an evil and murdering dictatorship.


17 posted on 05/12/2017 7:02:14 PM PDT by kindred (Jesus Christ is Lord and Saviour. President Trump is restoring America !)
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I’m sure the FBI and CIA have made many controversial offers to individuals, both foreign and domestic over the years to gain their cooperation. Nothing would surprise me. So as Democrats would say: “It doesn’t matter about the evidence...it’s the seriousness of the charges that count.”


18 posted on 05/12/2017 7:08:18 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: kindred
This American Thinker article is just a rehash/excerpt of the original article here.
19 posted on 05/12/2017 9:35:47 PM PDT by upchuck (Greed is a word leftists use to describe what conservatives call ambition. h/t Mike Rosen)
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Don’t believe this. Russians, like Democrats, are congenital liars.

QUite true. So is the U.S. government. I wouldn't trust the FBI to judge a 5th grade spelling bee without burning down the school, or killing one of the contestants.

20 posted on 05/13/2017 1:01:41 AM PDT by zeugma (The Brownshirts have taken over American Universities.)
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