Posted on 09/09/2018 3:58:16 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
Federal prosecutors are backtracking on their allegation that a Russian woman accused of working as a secret agent offered to trade sex for access.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors are backtracking on their allegation that a Russian woman accused of working as a secret agent offered to trade sex for access, according to a Justice Department court filing.
Prosecutors had earlier accused Maria Butina, a gun rights activist in U.S. custody on charges she worked as a covert agent and tried to establish back-channel lines of communication to the Kremlin, of offering to exchange sex for a position with a special interest organization.
The salacious allegation, which immediately escalated the public interest in the case, was based on a series of text messages to and from Butina and other information that prosecutors say they had obtained.
But in a new court filing late Friday, prosecutors said they misinterpreted the messages. They said "even granting that the government's understanding of this particular text conversation was mistaken," there is other evidence to support keeping Butina in custody as the case against her moves forward in Washington.
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The database in the sky had her, BUT? Lost in translation or just stupid assumptions by prosecutors?
Pretty redhead, photo at link. Guilty or Not Guilty?
I do believe the DOJ has a serious credibility problem. Hope it is temporary.
Russian spies want to protect our second amendment rights? Those dastardly KGB agents
Yep, protecting the right to bear arms is certainly a Russian priority to influence?
Know how they spied on Trump and claimed he was colluding with Russians? That was the Obama administration intelligence agencies. How far a jump to believe that they would try to tie a Russian spy to the NRA? I am not sure if Natasha here is a spy or not, or even what kind of spy if she is one.
She’s not guilty.
She did offer me sex for a night on my bed and under warm covers.
Maybe something got lost in translation as I thought she used the word marriage somewhere in our conversation.
In that instant I told her “Nyet” and walked away.
Maybe I should give her a second chance...
I’m sick of Russia, Russia, Russia. Keep banging the gong and any remaining credibility is gone.
I heard New York Times reporters do the same thing!
Sadly typical of the modern FBI, overcharge to create salacious headlines and then backtrack weeks later when no one even remembers the story.
Trump himself has jumped on the anti-Russia bandwagon to pander to Russophobe perverts. He gives them an inch, they will take a mile.
FR must establish guilt.
Not how I see it at all.
Trump will prevail over the subversives. And is building a good team of allies outside the US. In the process shedding some problem deadwood.
NYT is a totally worthless publication. All Propaganda.
smile.
I doubt she is a spy.
She was arrested in July.
Shows desperation of DOJ & FBI.
Close to Haiku, right there!
Thanks, I had no clue what Haiku was. It is a hard concept to understand from short Wiki I read.
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