Maria Butina, the Russian woman charged with acting as a foreign agent, tells 60 Minutes on Sunday that she never “sought to influence” U.S. policies and that she only “wanted to learn from the United States and make Russia better.”
The CBS newsmagazine landed the first U.S. interview with Butina, who was released on October 15 after serving for 15 months in prison.
When she was arrested in July 2018, just as Special Counsel Robert Mueller was in the midst of his investigation of Russian influence in the 2016 election, there was intense speculation over her contacts with members of the National Rifle Association.
In the U.S. on a student visa, she posted pictures of herself with Republican politicians and organized meetings in Russia with NRA members and Russian officials. Also under scrutiny were her contacts with the Trump campaign’s Russia advisers in 2016.
In a Twitter message to a friend in...
The CBS newsmagazine landed the first U.S. interview with Butina, who was released on October 15 after serving for 15 months in prison.
When she was arrested in July 2018, just as Special Counsel Robert Mueller was in the midst of his investigation of Russian influence in the 2016 election, there was intense speculation over her contacts with members of the National Rifle Association.
In the U.S. on a student visa, she posted pictures of herself with Republican politicians and organized meetings in Russia with NRA members and Russian officials. Also under scrutiny were her contacts with the Trump campaign’s Russia advisers in 2016.
In a Twitter message to a friend in...
- 11/1/2019
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange finds himself more legal trouble today as federal prosecutors have charged him with 17 new counts. Among them is an espionage charge for publishing classified information — the first such indictment ever handed down against a non-government employee by the U.S. Justice Department.
The new charges under the Espionage Act already are rankling some, including the Aclu and Citizenfour subject and Moscow reisdent Edward Snowden, on constitutional grounds. To that end, WikiLeaks responded to the indictments by tweeting: “This is madness. It is the end of national security journalism and the first amendment.”
This is madness. It is the end of national security journalism and the first amendment. https://t.co/wlhsmsenFw
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) May 23, 2019
A Virginia grand jury found that Assange unlawfully got then-Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning to obtain classified documents that included the names of sources who provided information to U.S. officials. Today’s...
The new charges under the Espionage Act already are rankling some, including the Aclu and Citizenfour subject and Moscow reisdent Edward Snowden, on constitutional grounds. To that end, WikiLeaks responded to the indictments by tweeting: “This is madness. It is the end of national security journalism and the first amendment.”
This is madness. It is the end of national security journalism and the first amendment. https://t.co/wlhsmsenFw
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) May 23, 2019
A Virginia grand jury found that Assange unlawfully got then-Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning to obtain classified documents that included the names of sources who provided information to U.S. officials. Today’s...
- 5/23/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Washington — Eighty years ago, Congress became so alarmed by the rise of pro-Nazi propaganda in the United States that it passed the Foreign Agents Registration Act (Fara), a law intended to shine a light on the activities and money spent by foreign countries and their representatives to lobby the U.S. government and spread their messages on American soil.
For large stretches of its existence, Fara has been an afterthought — a “stop sign in the desert” — as one foreign lobbyist put it. According to a 2016 Justice Department inspector general’s report,...
For large stretches of its existence, Fara has been an afterthought — a “stop sign in the desert” — as one foreign lobbyist put it. According to a 2016 Justice Department inspector general’s report,...
- 3/11/2019
- by Andy Kroll
- Rollingstone.com
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