People still foaming at the mouth about the Russian meddling, like the US doesn't do the same all over the world.
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Russia's efforts at denial seem to be proportional to the amount of pain they must be feeling. It seems like the C.I.A. has scored a significant hit, and Moscow knows it.
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Impressive-looking house. $925,000 is a lot of money for a government bureaucrat, and Russian salaries are plausibly less than ours.
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Meanwhile this so-called high-ranking extracted "spy" of huge value is presently openly residing in a million-tax-dollar home in Stafford, Virginia.
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If a comment begins with a $900K example of Russian meddling in the 2016 election and ends with a warning about "we" being misled if no concrete example is supplied, one has to wonder about everything in between.
Another spy story. Great. I love the cloak 'n' dagger stuff.
As to whether booziness hampers the functional ability of a spy or not, I seem to recall Guy Burgess, Donald Mclean, and Kim Philby doing pretty good work, and they weren't exactly strangers to the bottle.
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@Tony Long I would imagine boozing to be required to fit in with the Russian lifestyle - from what I have read, and seen...
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Trump will be whispering the names of other spies we have in Russia into Trump's ear affectionately when he entertains Putin at the Trump Doral presidential suite of course gratis. Indebted this president does see m quoting the Yoda.
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Donald must have called Putin suggested that he use the old coffee boy ruse, since it worked so well with George Papadopoulos. Disinformation. Wonder if some of Donald’s stooges in the Senate recognize it still.
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Are the media trying to get this guy killed?
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Russia says he's a nobody, but who wants to puts odds on whether he ends up dead of polonium poisoning within a year?
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Putin is smoked. The Russian people is annoyed by him anyway, This spy affair won't make life easier for DTs friend and that's a good thing.
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As I read this in California, it’s 8:00 PM in Moscow, RU.
Waiting for the Russian web brigade to chime in soon; must be shift change, or maybe the night crew is off today.
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The CIA talks about me the same way.
"A boozy nobody" is an apt description of many Russian officials, so this statement is hardly a surprise.
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For the past three years we have been constantly hearing about 'Russian meddling' with respect to the 2016 election and for that time, few details of the 'meddling' have been disclosed -- we have heard about $900K spent on Faacebook that apparently consisted of .001% of its total content, as well of Congressional hearing testimony that the Facebook content had no discernible effect on the election
The Mueller Report makes reference to Russian 'meddling' in the election, but offers no details.
For over two tears,we were misled by 'leaks' and innuedo, inter alia, from gov't sources and their media stenographers with respect to the 'collusion' claim that now appears to have shown to be a hoax.
Without some concrete examples of Russian 'meddling', we may well be being led down the same garden path.
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@chet380 Are you kidding me? The Mueller report is chock full of details on Russian meddling. It’s the most convincing part of the report. Have you even read it?
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@E ... Mueller's 'findings' are far from definitive proof of a campaign that had any discernible effect on the election -- those who are predisposed will make the leap of faith that the election was affected.
As to meddling, Russia's picayune effort are laughable in comparison to the US spending of billions of dollars to ensure the drunkard Yeltsin's electoral victory in 1996.
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How does a Russian double agent buy a house for $925,000? Did the CIA give him money?
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@Sutapa
That's typically how it works yes. Not that many informants are just motivated by ideals, lots more are motivated by disillusion combined with cash!
We would all appreciate it if the NYTimes please investigated the source of the funds Mr. S used to buy his $900k home in Virginia. Assuming a Russian bureaucrat's salary would be insufficient, then surely we can be told whether he paid cash or has a mortgage, and what his gainful employment now is.
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