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Putting aside Whelan’s weirdness (at best), I don’t see how his arrest could be a pretext to return Butina to Russia. She is charged in a federal court and a federal judge has jurisdiction over her case. Trump lacks the authority to send her back to Russia.
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Nope. The decision whether to prosecute lies within the Executive Branch and Trump's foreign relations powers are virtually unfettered. Obama did it in 2010.
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Then why is it said that Mueller can insulate his prosecutions from being stopped by Trump/Whitaker by filing sealed indictments so that a federal court has jurisdiction? Did the Obama example involve a Russian who was charged in federal court?
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I think it is a matter of Butina being a foreign national.
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Trump can do it. But, alas, he may be too late.
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The core of it is not to prevent prosecution/conviction. The aim is to give an out, to prevent co-operation. Convict. Pardon. Swap.
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Oh how do you solve a problem like butina? how do you make her statements fade to dust? What does one do with the body of butina?...once trump and Whitaker force her on the bus?
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Thank you! When I suggest that this is all a bit too convenient for the Kremlin, I’m understandably dismissed as having read too many spy novels. Good to hear it spoken aloud by a credible professional. At the very least, he is a polezni durak, but he could be much more
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I think we all better start thinking like a spy novel. Because this infiltration on behalf of Russia is huge & there are, apparently, no end of Americans willing to sell out to Russia
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They’re so far along the continuum, they think selling out to Russia makes them patriots.
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The more I learned about this guy, the more I suspect he’s in on it.
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A “Wag the Dog” stunt that isn’t working.
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His family is extremely concerned about his well being.
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My other thought, other than Butina swap strategy, is that this may be a useful way of continued private communications between Putin/Trump. Seems like it would provide easy cover for passing info back and forth, no? Mueller, hope you’re on this and hold my same gut feelings.
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Tradecraft ain't what it used to be. Spies were people we could aspire to. Men & women like Aldrich Ames, Elizabeth Bentley or Robert Baer. Now it's more like Emmett Fitz-Hume and Austin Millbarge from Spies Like Us. This guy's a Trump/Putin fan and is taking one for the team?
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That's what I was thinking!https://twitter.com/BarksandWreck/status/1080974538517766145?s=19 …
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