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Obamao busts russian spy ring

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U.S. Arrests 11 on Charges of Being Agents for Russia

WASHINGTON – In what law enforcements officials portrayed as an extraordinary takedown of a Russian espionage network, the Justice Department on Monday announced charges against 11 people accused of living for years in the United States as part of a deep-cover program by S.V.R. -- the successor agency to the Soviet-era K.G.B.

Criminal complaints filed in federal court on Monday read like a thriller novel: Secret Russian agents were assigned to live as married couples in the United States, even having children who were apparently unaware of their parents’ true identities. A spy swapped identical bags with a Russian official as they brushed past each other in a train station stairwell. Messages were written with invisible ink, hidden in the data of digital pictures, and encoded in messages sent over shortwave radio.
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More Change you Can Believe In from the Obamanation!
 
Puppycow said:
More Change you Can Believe In from the Obamanation!
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Wait.. what?? What does this have to do with Obama? I can't even tell if that's meant to be a snarky remark against Obama, and if so, why? Is that an endorsement of Russian Spies?
 
Things I think about when I read stories like this:

1. Russia is not our friend.

2. What U.S. assets did the U.S. government give away to Russia, in exchange for the tip-off leading to this capture?

3. Alternatively, what face-saving measures will the U.S. government obtain from the Russian government, to the benefit of the U.S. in return for catching them with their hand in the cookie jar?

4. Alternatively, what steps will the U.S. government take to minimize the diplomatic fallout from this, out of concern for jeopardizing sensitive negotiations (in which case, why make the bust now)?
 
KingMerv00 said:
I'm pretty sure everyone spies on everyone insofar as they are able. No governments are friends in this respect.
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Indeed. While I agree with hunting and prosecuting spies... getting indignant is kind of silly. They will play their games, and we will play ours.

It is to make spying difficult, not out of moral outrage, that I favor anti-spying laws.
 
gnome said:
Indeed. While I agree with hunting and prosecuting spies... getting indignant is kind of silly. They will play their games, and we will play ours.

It is to make spying difficult, not out of moral outrage, that I favor anti-spying laws.
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I've always wondered: How many English spies has America caught and vice versa? I assume when we catch one we give them a gentle pat on the bum, a gift basket, and send them on their way. It seems to be in the best interests of the "special relationship" after all.
 
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Gangularis said:
Wait.. what?? What does this have to do with Obama? I can't even tell if that's meant to be a snarky remark against Obama, and if so, why? Is that an endorsement of Russian Spies?
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Just a poor attempt at sarcasm. I have noticed that everything the federal government does that the right doesn't like is pinned on Obama, but he never gets any credit for being strong on national security.

I'm just waiting for a right winger to figure out a way to spin this too as Obama being weak on national security.
 
KingMerv00 said:
I'm pretty sure everyone spies on everyone insofar as they are able. No governments are friends in this respect.
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I'm sure the US spies, but it's hard for me to imagine that the US would use methods like these because of the danger to the operatives.

Of course I don't know that because our methods are necessarily secret.
 
The right will have their panties in a bunch over this, I'm sure. It does give credence to the position that 9/11 proved that the Republicans are useless in the national security role. Our intelligence agencies and courts seem to work just fine with a Democrat in charge.
 
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