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Russian exile's death in

artappraiser — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 21:31:31 +0000

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Russian exile's death in London is suspicious, friends claim

Nikolai Glushkov said to have been in ‘a perfect mood’ before he was found dead at his home

@ The Guardian.com, March 14

Not surprising. Greenwald,

NCD — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 19:24:06 +0000

In reply to Checked Greenwald's Twitter

Not surprising. Greenwald, who achieved fame and fortune for egging on a naive computer nerd to steal every byte of data he could get from US intelligence, and then turn the guy, and almost certainly the data, over to Putin, where he now lives in limbo in an undisclosed location.

See The Snowden Operation, $0.99 Kindle, by a former Moscow correspondent of a big British economics magazine.

Checked Greenwald's Twitter

artappraiser — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 17:25:23 +0000

In reply to Glenn Greenwald the Democrat

Checked Greenwald's Twitter because your link was such fun. And just got aggravated because I see he is already attacking hawkish Dems like Feinstein and Clapper for supposedly supporting the Gina Haskell appt. instead of attacking the actual appointer!

Trump and Greenwald are very

rmrd0000 — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 17:14:33 +0000

In reply to Glenn Greenwald the Democrat

Trump and Greenwald are very obvious.

Glenn Greenwald the Democrat

NCD — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 16:57:07 +0000

In reply to Britain Expels 23 Russian Diplomats Over Poisoning

Glenn Greenwald the Democrat attackng Russian supporting lefty who said this (from last year) :

Russian agent" - noun - "One who criticizes Democratic Party leaders." Syn: "Useful idiot, Putin loyalist, Kremlin spy."

..is remarkably silent (snark) on the poisoning. His "agent" definition would have to be expanded to include nerve agent poison assassins.

If the US was accused of similar crimes, Greenwald wouod be on Fox News and every network attacking the US as the nexus of evil, saying it shows Putin is an innocent patriotic statesman whom we forced to defend his sovereignty by invadng the Crimea etc etc...

As Putin’s Opponents Flocked

artappraiser — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 16:09:30 +0000

In reply to Britain Expels 23 Russian Diplomats Over Poisoning

As Putin’s Opponents Flocked to London, His Spies Followed

By Ellen Barry @ NYTimes.com, March 12

LONDON — The Russian opposition figure Vladimir L. Ashurkov breathed a sigh of relief when he fled Moscow for London in 2014. After months of being followed by the Kremlin’s intelligence agents to meetings, culminating in a televised raid of his apartment, he finally let his guard down, disappearing into the elegant, polyglot streets of Kensington.

Six months passed before he realized that he was still being followed.

An old friend returned from a trip to Russia with unnerving news: In Moscow, security officials had asked detailed questions about a private conversation he had with Mr. Ashurkov in a London cafe [....]

“You can’t do much about it,” he said. “Even after you escape from Moscow to London, you know they have long hands.”

Russia now has more intelligence agents deployed in London than at the height of the Cold War, former British intelligence officials have said. They serve a variety of functions, including building contacts among British politicians. But the most important task is to keep an eye on the hundreds of heavyweight Russians — those aligned with President Vladimir V. Putin, and those arrayed against him — who have built lives in Britain, attracted by its property market and banking system [.....]