The derps REALLY don't want a Trumpian to replace their sleeper agent, Coats.
Posted on 07/29/2019 4:50:29 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
President Donald Trump’s new pick to lead the country’s vast intelligence apparatus fell into favor with the White House as a longtime, vocal critic of the Russia investigation and the officials who launched it.
But John Ratcliffe, the congressman Trump has tapped to fight the “deep state” from within, has worked closely with one of the men Russian President Vladimir Putin wants most to see in prison: Bill Browder, an American-born businessman who has been on a decade-long campaign to expose Russian corruption.
Ratcliffe was one of our lawyers at Ashcroft dealing with the fallout from Magnitsky,” Browder told POLITICO on Monday, referring to the law firm former Attorney General John Ashcroft formed with Ratcliffe and another former U.S. attorney in 2009. Browder described Ratcliffe as “a highly sophisticated guy” with “no illusions about Russia” who is “professional, capable, and deserves respect.”
While he wouldn’t delve into the legal advice Ratcliffe gave him over the years, Browder seemed confident in the congressman’s bona fides. “All I can say is that he’s a top professional, highly trained, and understands what’s going on in Russia through the Magnitsky case.”
Ratcliffe was one of Browder’s lawyers on the case that — with the help of Ashcroft’s lobbying firm — resulted in the passage of the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act in 2012.
Overturning the Magnitsky Act — which authorizes the president to deny visas to, and freeze the assets of, Russians believed to have been complicit in Magnitsky's death and others suspected of human-rights abuses and corruption — has been one of Putin’s top foreign policy priorities.
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The derps REALLY don't want a Trumpian to replace their sleeper agent, Coats.
Collaborated!?!
Don’t they mean “colluded”!?!
No. It further proves that Trump is NOT and never was a Russia colluder.
John Kerry collaborated.with thenfierce iranaian foe
Still does!
The fact Ratcliffe helped Browder against Putin’s oligarchs is a GOOD thing not a bad thing.
The word Politico is a synonym for the word lie.
News today of protests in Russia. Not sure where this will lead.
Just so I understand, Working with Russians is bad and working against Russia is bad. This only is applicable when Republicans do it. Does that about cover it?
Looks like the senate committee dums got the sound bite they’ve been hoping to find.
Thanks, Pollutico
Yup. And didn’t Clinton Foundation accept a huge “donation” from the Russians after the Uranium 1 deal??? This crap is nonsense, pathetically so.
Trump has no need to prove how innocent he is to Russophobia lowlifes and LGBTQ brigade.
Well at least he didn’t Personally Deliver Enriched Uranium to the Russians or Sell them 1/3 of our Uranium to make weapons with.
Anti-Russia, Anti-Russia, Anti-Russia!
IOW, the media is in collusion with Putin.
Sounds like he has the required experience and knowledge to do the job....
“” “” The fact Ratcliffe helped Browder against Putin’s oligarchs is a GOOD thing not a bad thing.”” “”
It doesn’t help that Browder is a hereditary Communist, a Soros’s associate and on top of that ditched a US citizenship to avoid paying taxes on money he stole in Russia.
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