The FBI gets egg all over its face in Maria Butina 'red sparrow' claim

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American Thinker
Monica Showalter
Sept. 9, 2018

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and its affiliated prosecutors admitted a rather dumb error in its prosecutorial case against accused Russian agent of influence Maria Butina:

According to CBS News:

Federal prosecutors said Friday in a court filing that alleged Russian agent Maria Butina should not be released from jail on bond -- and also that the government was "mistaken" in its understanding of text messages that led to its claim that she offered sex for "a position with a special interest organization."

A bond hearing is scheduled for Monday.

The Justice Department alleges that Butina acted as an unregistered Russian agent for several years, working with a "senior Russian government official" to infiltrate a "U.S. gun rights organization" and other conservative groups. A grand jury indicted Butina in July, and she has been detained since then.

More... https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/09/the_fbi_gets_egg_all_over_its_face_in_maria_butina_red_sparrow_claim.html

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American Thinker
Monica Showalter
Sept. 9, 2018

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and its affiliated prosecutors admitted a rather dumb error in its prosecutorial case against accused Russian agent of influence Maria Butina:

According to CBS News:

Federal prosecutors said Friday in a court filing that alleged Russian agent Maria Butina should not be released from jail on bond -- and also that the government was "mistaken" in its understanding of text messages that led to its claim that she offered sex for "a position with a special interest organization."

A bond hearing is scheduled for Monday.

The Justice Department alleges that Butina acted as an unregistered Russian agent for several years, working with a "senior Russian government official" to infiltrate a "U.S. gun rights organization" and other conservative groups. A grand jury indicted Butina in July, and she has been detained since then.

More... https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/09/the_fbi_gets_egg_all_over_its_face_in_maria_butina_red_sparrow_claim.html

This is just one example of why I refer to them as "The Feebs".

[Bigun]

Looks to me that the FBI has more egg on it's face than skin these days.

[Sanguine]

0bama's administration, while vile and despicable, was also run by radicals who may have been good at being radicals, they weren't very good at running a government.  But, malice combined with incompetence can do a lot of damage.