Posted on 03/09/2022 9:27:59 AM PST by Beowulf9
An accused Russian spy who worked as a merchant banker in New York City called convicted spy Maria Butina after 30 FBI agents showed up at her apartment with a battering ram.
Elena Branson, 61, who holds dual U.S. and Russian citizenship, was accused of running a 'Russian propaganda center' in New York and communicating directly with President Vladimir Putin. She shared details of her encounter with the law during a cozy chat with Butina broadcast on Russian state broadcaster RT, and recalled how Butina had been one of the first people she'd contacted.
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30 FBI Agents?
I doubt all of them could even fit in a NY City apartment.
Does anyone know what her FReeper handle was?
“Elena Branson, 61, who holds dual U.S. and Russian citizenship”
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It’s time to end or dual citizenship. No one can have allegiance to two separate countries. When a foreign national becomes an American citizen that person swears allegiance to the United States of America and forswears any allegiance to the previous country. When did all of this dual citizenship become acceptable?
The US doesn’t recognize dual citizenship except for people who are minors, they can hold it until they are of age and then they have to pick one or the other.
However, we can’t stop other countries from granting dual citizenship even if we don’t recognize it.
They'll come up with something.
It’d be a crime on free republic if some had their way
Just last night one said
“We need to keep a list here of these traitors”
Anyone not wanting to engage in the conflict is a traitor per this gang
A gang laden with nevertrumpers
That may have been the rule in the past but not now. My sister-in-law is a naturalized US citizen who was allowed to keep her original citizenship when she became a US citizen.
I hope not anymore...
Manhattan? Let's get Tish James on the case!
Was Fang Fang ever arrested by US agents? I think she was arrested in Hong Kong, but what the the US DOJ give her a pass? She was obviously a spy.
That’s wrong. Japan does that. But us allows dual citizenship
This is how they came after General Flynn, claiming he was an unregistered foreign agent for Turkey. Papadopoulos was threatened with charges he was an unregistered foreign agent for Israel.
Half of the beltway are unregistered foreign agents. Speaking of Israel, how many lobbyists in D.C. would be caught in the net if the law were strictly applied to everyone?
And think of the Clintons and their foundation, how much money did they take from foreign governments and cut-outs, with a few to doing favors for those foreign governments? Are they not foreign agents?
This is selectively used by the deep state a way to go after political opponents and shield political allies.
There are of course real foreign agents who are of concern, which is perhaps what an FBI that was not the enforcement arm of the Democrat Party might focus on.
...called convicted spy Maria Butina
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Remember, Butina is an FBI informant who tried to setup then candidate Trump during a meeting with him.
I have a suggestion. We can allow dual citizenship, but nobody who has citizenship in another country is allowed to vote, hold political office or work for the government at any level.
Where did you get that insanely wrong information from?
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-legal-considerations/Advice-about-Possible-Loss-of-US-Nationality-Dual-Nationality/Dual-Nationality.html
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/343/717/
There are no 61 year-old merchant bankers.
Hardly any over 45.
—> No one can have allegiance to two separate countries
Depends.
For most it is simply a travel document or an emotional connection.
Supreme Court ruled it OK.
Almost half the number of agents sent to Ferguson to investigate a young police officer who was almost murdered by a black criminal.
Is it possible the FBI is accidentally doing their job and going after people working against our country and NOT just people who MIGHT have hurt the feelings of members of White liberal 'elite's chosen victim groups?
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