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Alleged Russian spy may not have offered sex for job, prosecutors concede
UK Guardian ^

Posted on 09/08/2018 10:46:48 AM PDT by ameribbean expat

...prosecutors also conceded in a filing to court late on Friday that they may have wrongly accused Butina of offering sex in return for a job, after her attorneys protested against the government’s portrayal of her as a “Red Sparrow” seductress.

The 29-year-old is in jail awaiting trial on charges that she worked to infiltrate conservative politics via the National Rifle Association (NRA) as part of a plan to influence the US government. She has pleaded not guilt

(Excerpt) Read more at amp.theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: butina; nra; trumprussia
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1 posted on 09/08/2018 10:46:48 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: ameribbean expat

You’re not hired!


2 posted on 09/08/2018 10:48:08 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: ameribbean expat

TTIWWP.


3 posted on 09/08/2018 10:50:08 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: ameribbean expat

That stuff is only in the movies ?


4 posted on 09/08/2018 10:50:33 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ameribbean expat

Jeff Sessions is prosecuting Russian girls for going to a prayer breakfast, but won’t prosecute a single Deep State criminal.


5 posted on 09/08/2018 10:51:54 AM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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...that they may have wrongly accused Butina of offering sex in return for a job...

She went to Joey Buttafuoco to get her car stereo installed.

6 posted on 09/08/2018 10:51:55 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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7 posted on 09/08/2018 10:56:44 AM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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Wow Russian spies are trying to protect our second amendment rights and stop Hillary from being elected?!?! I guess Russia loves America more than the entirety of the DNC


8 posted on 09/08/2018 10:59:09 AM PDT by escapefromboston (manny ortez: mvp)
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She displays proper trigger discipline, as opposed to Feinstein.


9 posted on 09/08/2018 11:01:05 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America NEEDS Mob Rule, another European and Mid East World War and a universal Draft)
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To: Fido969

Absolutely guilt free!


10 posted on 09/08/2018 11:03:55 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: ameribbean expat

Good grief. Apply the “infiltrate the U.S. government” to the Clinton Foundation while you are at it. What a joke.


11 posted on 09/08/2018 11:07:10 AM PDT by ALX
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"Russia loves America more than the entirety of the DNC"

I am quite sure THAT is a fact... they particularly like the IDEA and IDEALS of the American way...

12 posted on 09/08/2018 11:10:02 AM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (Imho)
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“Absolutely guilt free!”

Not guilty, either!


13 posted on 09/08/2018 11:14:32 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Fido969

Nice piece.


14 posted on 09/08/2018 11:16:59 AM PDT by chief lee runamok (mongrel at large)
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To: ameribbean expat

I hope everyone remembers that during the Cold War the Russian successfully infiltrated our government and had their operatives employed, being paid salaries by US taxpayers. There is precedent for Russian agents working for the US government.

The modern foreign spies can’t hold a candle to those we encountered and dealt with in years gone by.


15 posted on 09/08/2018 11:18:25 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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So what’s the crime? A Russian citizen failing to register as the agent of a foreign country?


16 posted on 09/08/2018 11:18:37 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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Accuracy in your hands

That is what the Russian translates to. Although I think it is more of an idiom; more like “a bullseye in your hands”.


17 posted on 09/08/2018 11:34:04 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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They’re only indicting her so they can gag her. I bet you anything she’ll turn out to be a DNC plant in the GOP. All of this started in 2014 when Flynn started to distance himself from Obama. They needed a way to shut him up when he started telling people where the bodies are buried.


18 posted on 09/08/2018 11:37:26 AM PDT by struggle
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I remember when Soviet spies stole our nuclear secrets and got placed in high positions in the State Department to influence our foreign policy. Now Russian spies are joining the NRA and attending prayer breakfasts.


19 posted on 09/08/2018 11:38:08 AM PDT by csn vinnie
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It doesn't matter what they concede or even if they drop the charges. They've already held her in custody and humiliated here, she's run up a lot of debt for legal fees, and her name has been dragged through the media formerly known as mainstream muck raking machinery.

Looks like it's business as usual over at the DoJ.

20 posted on 09/08/2018 11:38:25 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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