Bill Browder, who spearheaded the Magnitsky Act, now confirming it was Akhmetshin.

[sunonmars]

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[bench scientist]

1. Kick for visibility.n/t

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

[dalton99a]

3. A "former" counterintelligence officer with "ongoing ties"

[GusBob]

4. pardon me its early and I am denser than lead: whats GRU?

and how involved in the hacking were they?

[dalton99a]

5. Russia's largest foreign intelligence agency

Glavnoye razvedyvatel'noye upravleniye - Main Intelligence Directorate

[GusBob]

9. Thx

sounds ominous

[htuttle]

6. Russian Military Intelligence

The GRU are the ones suspected of hacking voting software in 2016 and before.

http://www.npr.org/2017/06/06/531764199/5-unanswered-questions-raised-by-the-leaked-nsa-hacking-report

[GusBob]

10. Oh Lawdy

I don't like these guys

[Zoonart]

30. GRU... This guy?

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

[csziggy]

7. The GRU is Russia's largest foreign intelligence agency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Intelligence_Directorate

[GusBob]

11. Thx

sounds like a swell bunch

[Hekate]

23. GRU is the successor to the KGB

[Aviation Pro]

35. No...

...the FSB is the successor to the KGB. The GRU is the intelligence arm of the Soviet, er, Russian military.

[stevenleser]

40. KGB split into FSB and SVR. SVR is what most people think about when they think of KGB

SVR is the foreign operations portion. FSB is domestic counter intelligence.

SVR and FSB are civilian agencies.

GRU is the military intelligence directorate. It is bigger than either SVR or FSB and probably has far greater capabilities.

[Hekate]

45. Thank you

[Hekate]

46. Thank you

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. Yes, undoubtedly involved in the hacking, through fronts and contractors. . . . nt

[jpak]

39. Soviet/Russian MILITARY intel

This is really bad for Trump and GOP

[stevenleser]

42. See my #40 above. The reality is, GRU has enormous espionage capabilities

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[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

8. If this is true

I see some prominent trump backers stepping away from this disaster.

[Achilleaze]

19. America has not seen a shred of republican integrity on this yet

so don't hold your breath.

republicans are hell bent on continuing to cover up republican treason against America.

[Jim__]

12. So the Trump campaign was in bed with Russian intelligence.

I wonder how the republicans are going to blame this on Obama and Hillary.

[superpatriotman]

20. Give 'em a minute

The spin room is printing out talking points as I type this reply.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

25. They are blaming Obama for letting lawyer in, but latest is DHS has debunked that claim

... for admitting the Russian lawyer into the US.

But they don't see the inherent contradiction. If the lawyer should have been barred from entry, then mini-Trump should not have met with the lawyer.

Trump's own DHS has debunked his conspiracy theory: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141820456

[Shrike47]

43. He was just a naive boy, not a foreign affairs expert

until his father got elected, when he magically became one!

[pangaia]

41. It's the far left liberal media..

[CakeGrrl]

47. They'll try the "thery're new at this"

line of bullshit again.

Trump is the how the universe has punished the GOP for obstructing Obama.

Where they blocked / obstructed EVERYTHING President Obama tried to do, they're working hard to ignore Trump's clear corruption and criminality to keep a GOP lock on the WH. They're tying themselves to an anchor.

[onit2day]

48. What do you mean "was"?

[Honeycombe8]

13. HUGE. Trump team is like peeling an artichoke. More & more layers peel off. nt

[George II]

21. More like peeling an onion - the more you peel the more you cry.

[bigtree]

14. k&r

[FailureToCommunicate]

15. Drip, drip, drip... splash!

[Squinch]

16. I'd say that has to be the smoking gun that wakes up even the most

deplorable of the deplorables, but you know it won't because they're ALL frickin' traitors.

But good god. A presidential candidate who is a proven Russian operative.

America is over as we know it.

Even if we have a string of good presidents after this, this has happened. There is no putting that genie back into the bottle. There will always be someone who is willing to sell us out to hostile powers for their own benefit, and Trump(R) and McConnell and Ryan and the rest of them have just written the map for them to follow.

America is over as we know it.

[PatSeg]

32. Sadly

I'm afraid you're right. Once someone gets away with it, there will be others that will try down the road. Even if today's traitors pay dire consequences, there will be others who think they could do it better and smarter. Meanwhile, Putin has caused such disruption to our democracy, he is not liable to stop. He has so much money and there are so many people to be bought.

[Squinch]

36. And those who think they could do it better and smarter, as you say, are definitely

right because these people are morons.

[PatSeg]

37. That is what really scares me

Not only are they unprincipled and corrupt, they are devastatingly incompetent and stupid. Yet they still made it to the White House. It is more a reflection on us as a country than on them as clueless, immoral idiots.

[Achilleaze]

17. the republicans are so freaking kushy cozy with russian agents

as russian plots to take down America. Wake the f*ck up republicans. Your betrayal of America is epic evil.

[Gabi Hayes]

18. Still alive, but.....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11453125/Bill-Browder-why-I-fear-for-my-life.html

"Greatest capitalist in the world" turned human rights campaigner, Bill Browder is fighting for justice for a Russian friend whose murder he blames on the Kremlin

With his sober navy suit, frameless glasses and cropped salt-and-pepper hair, Bill Browder looks more like a high-street bank manager than the once self-proclaimed greatest capitalist in the world. His soft voice does not obviously denote a man dedicated to human-rights activism.

And you wouldn’t mark him down as a potential target for Russian gangsters whose links may go all the way to President Vladimir Putin.

Yet Browder is all these things, especially the latter. He admits today, from his anonymous London office: ‘‘If Putin wants me dead, I’ll be dead. I could have a thousand bodyguards and it would make no difference. But I’m not petrified. I’m not the kind of person who will cower in fear.’’

His words carry an extra edge today; he is still shocked at the death of Boris Nemtsov, the 55-year-old former deputy Russian prime minister shot four times in the back a week ago. Nemtsov, the most prominent opposition figure to be killed during Putin’s 15-year rule, was murdered while strolling across a bridge within sight of the Kremlin.

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Remember

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/russian-lawyer-corruption-investigation-falls-apartment-article-1.3004984

The lawyer for the family of a Russian attorney, who died following a corruption investigation, has been hospitalized in "critical" condition after falling from the fifth floor of an apartment building in Moscow, associates said.

Nikolai Gorokhov fell from a window on Tuesday, a day before he was supposed to represent the mother of Sergei Magnitsky, whose death has been a focal point in souring U.S.-Russian relations.

Magnitsky said he had uncovered a $230 million fraud scheme by Russian government officials, but was imprisoned and convicted posthumoiusly after being accused of the same fraud.

[Hekate]

22. Kick. Oh gods.

[VigilantG]

26. K & R

[JHan]

27. Don't worry folks, any campaign would have done this.. ANY campaign...

[gordianot]

28. Loving it, just an attorney, coming at a million miles an hour. N/T

[gademocrat7]

29. K&Rnt

[ProudProgressiveNow]

31. K&R nt

[SweetieD]

33. I hate these fucking liars!!!! Just get Trump out!!!

[flamingdem]

34. Just a normal Opposition Research meeting..

NOT!!!

[jpak]

38. GRU - Act of War

High Fucking Treason

[Sunlei]

44. The go between for Republicans in our Congress & Senate & White House for attack against Democracy

When will the charges start and the statements under oath?