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Trumps Lawyer Working With Active Russian Agent to Smear Biden
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/rudy-giuliani-russian-agent-derkach-trump-ukraine-biden.html
Yesterday, the Treasury Department officially labeled Andriy Derkach an active Russian agent for over a decade, maintaining close connections with the Russian Intelligence Services. The only person who even claims to find this remotely surprising is Rudy Giuliani, who has been working hand in glove with Derkach for months.
There is an old Simpsons episode in which Homer Simpson, watching a spy movie, blurts out, I think that guys a spy! His irritated wife whispers back, Of course hes a spy. You just saw him go through spy school! This exchange is worth bearing in mind as you read Giulianis response to the revelation.
Reached by the New York Times, Giuliani pleads ignorance:
Mr. Giuliani said in an interview Thursday night that he felt comfortable meeting with Mr. Derkach because there were no sanctions against him at the time. While he acknowledged that he didnt do much investigation of Mr. Derkach, Mr. Giuliani said: I have no reason to believe he is a Russian agent. There is nothing I saw that said he was a Russian agent. There is nothing he gave me that seemed to come from Russia at all. But he added, How the hell would I know?
Giulianis reason for not suspecting Derkach as a Russian agent is that he didnt tell him he was a Russian agent. I am not an espionage expert, but I have watched enough spy shows to know that one of the basic practices of foreign agents is not to announce that they are foreign agents. If you have ever watched The Americans, you will notice that Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings do not go around wearing furry Russian hats and handing out KGB business cards. Its basic tradecraft.
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Solly Mack
(90,765 posts)bullimiami
(13,093 posts)But most of us knew anyway.
Treason
"Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, OR in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open Court.
No question Russia is our enemy.
No question Rudy is adhering to, and giving aid to, Russias interests to the detriment of our own.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)with all of his Ex's as per the gossip columns. So Rudy the Grifter just kicks it up a notch. Got to keep the Ladies in Bling. So screw the USA,Hey,Rudy was a mob hustler as a kid,he learned well.
Gothmog
(145,225 posts)RockRaven
(14,966 posts)A Russian agent.
Not a dupe. Not a patsy. Not a useful idiot. A. Russian. Agent.
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)I mean who knew you couldn't just trust these Russians?
SWBTATTReg
(22,121 posts)MissMillie
(38,556 posts)"Bond. James Bond. I'm here to spy on you."
Would have made for some really short movies.
crickets
(25,977 posts)if somebody would just shove Rudy into a jail cell already.