Oops! Alleged Russian spy Maria Butina met with Obama officials in 2015

[mystery-ak]

July 23, 2018
Oops! Alleged Russian spy Maria Butina met with Obama officials in 2015
By Thomas Lifson

Desperate Trump-haters, searching for something  -- anything! – to show that the Trump administration is in bed with Vladimir Putin, seized on the news a week ago that a young Russian names Maria Butina had been indicted for violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), or, in the words of the DOJ, for “ conspiracy to act as an agent of the Russian Federation within the United States without prior notification to the Attorney General.”

Here at last was a face – and a red-headed female one, to boot – to attach to the charges of treason being thrown around by the likes of John Brennan.

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[TomSea]

And they won't even let her walk out of jail and her big offense is not registering as a Russian agent.

The next scandal may be of some Russian playing at the local chess club.... it's hard to see Butina as being anything but very small potatoes, maybe she did wrong but it seems pretty mild.

[mountaineer]

FBI: ‘Russian Spy’ Mueller Just Jailed Was Granted “Expedited” Entry into U.S. via John Kerry, Eric Holder; Met with Obama Officials Prior to Arrest
Posted on July 23, 2018 by Investigative Bureau

Maria Butina was granted a special travel visa to enter the United States in 2015 by John Kerry’s state department with likely help from the then-U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, according to FBI officials.

Butina was already on a federal watchlist, FBI insiders said, which means Holder’s Justice Department — and likely Holder himself — would have had to green light Butina’s visa from Russia for entry into the United States.  ...

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Reuters also reports:

World News
July 22, 2018 / 6:08 AM / Updated 11 hours ago
Exclusive: Alleged Russian agent Butina met with U.S. Treasury, Fed officials
Sarah N. Lynch


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Maria Butina, accused in the United States of spying for Russia, had wider high-level contacts in Washington than previously known, taking part in 2015 meetings between a visiting Russian official and two senior U.S. officials.

The meetings, disclosed by several people familiar with the sessions and a report prepared by a Washington think tank that arranged them, involved Stanley Fischer, then Federal Reserve vice chairman, and Nathan Sheets, then Treasury undersecretary for international affairs.

Butina traveled to the United States in April 2015 with Alexander Torshin, then the Russian Central Bank deputy governor, and they took part in separate meetings with Fischer and Sheets to discuss U.S.-Russian economic relations during Democratic former President Barack Obama’s administration.   ...

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So not exactly a Trump operative, is she?

[GrouchoTex]

Hmmmmmmmmmm....

So the State department and the Justice department expedite her entry to the U.S.
What ever for? /s