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by throwawayq3423 11mo ago
You're confusing terminology. You can be an agent or an asset of a foreign government without formally working for them. You could argue Snowden never intended to become an asset of the Russian government but you can't argue that
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by throwawayq3423 11mo ago
The FBI would still need to coordinate with the NSA for an investigation and public declaration of findings, neither would be in the interest of the NSA to cooperate for. And the Mueller report was specifically scoped down to not include an
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by throwawayq3423 11mo ago
> no control over when his passport > wanted to stay in Moscow if he had a choice None of this has to do with his decision to seek protection from the Russian government, which is a formal arrangement with their security services, whe
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by throwawayq3423 11mo ago
You don't think exposing American intelligence operations and providing fodder for bad faith influence operations is not in Russia's benefit? With every interview he gives, he's the gift that keeps on giving.
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by throwawayq3423 11mo ago
> would have tied right in with all the other election related hacking allegations. That's not how it works. There is no coordinated messaging campaign across agencies against adversarial nations. It might seem that way based on med
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by throwawayq3423 11mo ago
> Curiously, the US Government has never made that allegation. Why would they? It was a deeply embarrassing event for them.
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by throwawayq3423 11mo ago
That is his narrative, yes. Meanwhile, there's no evidence he was trying to get to South America as he claimed. What we know is he went to China, then Russia.
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by throwawayq3423 11mo ago
He sought political asylum in Russia and is currently living under FSB protection, which isn't free. It has a cost. Honest question, what more needs to be said?
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by throwawayq3423 11mo ago
The shadow brokers are almost certainly Russian intelligence.
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by throwawayq3423 11mo ago
I don't think it matters if he was more so that he inarguably has become one.
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by throwawayq3423 1y ago
Perhaps the race to the bottom to create the cheapest possible solar panel wasn't the right way to approach this.
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by throwawayq3423 1y ago
except for the implications of one word over another are world-changing
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by throwawayq3423 1y ago
The Germans would have loved intelligence on the Hamburg cell planning 9/11. It wouldn't have just been a benefit to them.
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by throwawayq3423 1y ago
already has if you're not visiting the instagrammable places your travels aren't worth it
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by throwawayq3423 1y ago
That's not what move fast in a large org looks like in practice.
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by throwawayq3423 1y ago
And ironically, one of the reasons why Five Eyes was so valuable is that it allows spy agencies that are banned from domestic surveillance from surveilling their own allies and then sharing the results, or at the very least sharing intel th
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by throwawayq3423 1y ago
> He's a business man that seems to like to troll. “I don’t kid. Let me just tell you. Let me make it clear” https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/23/trump-joking-slowin...
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by throwawayq3423 1y ago
It's his narrative. It's how he's making sense of it. But most importantly, it's his justification. "The violence on my side is only in response to the violence on your side." This is how such an unambiguous ac
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by throwawayq3423 1y ago
He had already been convicted of multiple unrelated felonies. He was in the process of being tried in multiple cases in multiple jurisdictions regarding his attempts to compromise an American election, each time with overwhelming, nearly co
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by throwawayq3423 1y ago
Five Eyes is the mechanism for intelligence sharing between countries. Domestic surveillance, if it occurs, is not inherently part of that framework.
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by throwawayq3423 1y ago
> It's not even that they aren't curious or aware of what they said previously, they even emphatically deny their own words. Tribal alignment. If the tribe had moved on from Trump and he had lost the election, your relatives wo
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by throwawayq3423 1y ago
> Great. And as we have already established, that case went nowhere. Anybody can accuse someone of anything. You've already admitted twice you did not read any of the evidence. You literally have no idea what the case is. You outsou
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by throwawayq3423 1y ago
> Exactly. So if you plead not guilty Who gives a shit? You're trying to say that because they were pardoned, they didn't do anything wrong. They were convicted of crimes in a court of law. > You sought to pin political viol
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by throwawayq3423 1y ago
His account was created four days ago and he's exclusively posting January 6th denialism. Neither of us should have taken the time to feed the troll.
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by throwawayq3423 1y ago
> Wrong. Pleading guilty is an admission of guilt. Being convicted is not the same as admitting guilt. You either pardon a person declared guilty by a judge and jury or a person who pled guilty themselves. > Pardons can be a tool to o
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by throwawayq3423 1y ago
> What evidence do you have The special counsel publicly said he had enough evidence to convince a jury that a premeditated, coordinated attempt to coup the U.S. government had occurred. > partisan-appointed lawyer There isn't an
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by throwawayq3423 1y ago
In crowd control, if your line is broken, you fall back. That's why rioters were allowed to walk through the Capitol. The police had no ability to stop them once their forward line was broken. "The police were giving them a tour.&
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by throwawayq3423 1y ago
The plan was, according to the special counsel who had researched it, to buy time for the Eastman memo's plan of sending fake electors to create a constitutional crisis, whereas then the House needs to vote on who is president. The att
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by throwawayq3423 1y ago
> Black Lives Matter riots (Funny, you can never say those words. It's always an abbreviation). > the BLM comparison Hey look, you did it again. > provide context for what the country was going thru at the time No, it's a
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by throwawayq3423 1y ago
> Show me where exactly in the Eastman memo, the so called "coup plot", it calls for a group of protesters to go into the Capitol? Really cynical stuff. The Eastman memo was the blueprint on how to actually stop Biden's ce

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