Posted on 10/24/2019 7:08:50 PM PDT by McGruff
Russian agent Maria Butina is due to be released from prison Friday — and immediately escorted back to the Motherland, according to her lawyer.
Butina, a pro-gun activist who infiltrated conservative political circles as a secret agent for the Kremlin, will be released from a low-security prison in Tallahassee, Fla., where she was serving 18 months for working as an undeclared agent of a foreign government without registering in the US.
The red-headed inmate will be sent packing back to Moscow accompanied by two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, her lawyer, Robert Driscoll, told the Washington Examiner.
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Butina pleaded guilty last December to conspiring with a senior Russian official to access the NRA and other groups from 2015 until she was arrested last July. She said she was “ashamed and embarrassed” by her actions — but always maintained she was not a spy.
She admitted to working with Paul Erickson, her GOP operative boyfriend, “to establish unofficial lines of communication with Americans having power and influence over US politics … for the benefit of the Russian Federation,” according to court papers.
Did prison food make her fat?
“” “” to establish unofficial lines of communication with Americans having power and influence over US politics … for the benefit of the Russian Federation,”” “”
FBI newspeak for activism for better relations? She produced a great lesson for other young Russians who still believe Western propaganda on freedom, rule of law and lack of it.
She wasn’t a secret agency, nor did she break the law. She was a victim.
I will take her if no one wants her. My patriotic duty.
I have yet to see any evidence she was some massive threat.
I agree. Part of the Russia hoax.
This was a horrible abuse of power by the Justice Department from the start.
It was all a way to try to smear the NRA and Trump.
Butina did not do anything wrong that I can tell; but like General Flynn, she was caught up in the power of the Justice Department to destroy her completely unless she plead to something.
She plead to the least damaging thing she could.
This is a terrible miscarriage of justice.
She looks a bit like Robert Plant.
All of the cases, where the Mueller investigations got prosecutions, were nothing but phony convictions, meant to give credibility to an otherwise complete hoax.
People start to believe if there are ‘convictions’, and that’s all there was, a setup to try to get at Trump. If not for the attempt to get Trump out of office, NONE of those phony convictions would have ever come up; in fact, the cases would never have been fabricated.
Who was the really hot one?
Reminds me an old Soviet joke. A cossak is in prison and other prisoners are curious what brought him there.
He said I wanted to reenlist into the military and they given me ton of tests. One question was ‘how do you prefer to have sex?’ I realized the question is loaded and weighted variants. If I choose I am on top they’d accuse me of Bonapartism, if woman on top - passive and unfit for command. If I choose I prefer to be on the right they’d say I am a Nazi sympathizer, on the left - they’d say far-left Trotskite. So I chosen my variant and wrote: ‘I don’t sleep with women. Wanker’.
Got 5 years in prison.
What are the charges? other prisoners asking.
They wrote misogynism, kulak conspiracy (kulak literally means fist) and embezzling the national seed fund.
That is how FBI rolls these days.
Anyone think she was really a subversive Russian agent?
I can admit I don’t know. But I get the impression she was railroaded, that she pleaded guilty to a crime to avoid the potential of a much more onerous sentence from numerous potential charges. It would be expensive to fight, and the political climate was against her. Yes I believe she was a Russian patriot - but that she wasn’t here in the US to interfere with the elections or American politics but to learn from our processes and lobbying practices to take them back to her home country.
I could be wrong. I will admit that much and I haven’t followed every detail of her case. But I do know she was invited here earlier by the Obama Admin to learn about the Federal Reserve, and that I believe is likely why she came back to learn about the NRA and our governmental processes to take them back to Russia. Not that she had any anti-US nefarious intent.
That’s my impression too.
I believe you simplify a bit but my general impression is very similar.
Send her to my house!
Please...
This, 100% percent. She did absolutely nothing wrong, and was borderline tortured in federal custody, all to help make Trump look bad.
She's quickly turning from hot Russian babe into cinder-block babushka. It usually happens to them later in life. Must be the stress.
Yea, disappointing. I agree Russians usually hold up better, certainly better than our samples.
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