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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReports: Second FSB Agent Arrested; Possible Links To U.S. Election Hacking
http://www.rferl.org/a/russia-fsb-agent-arrested-u-s-election-hacking/28261397.htmlRussian media have reported that another Federal Security Service (FSB) officer has been arrested on treason charges in a case that may be linked to cyberattacks targeting the U.S. presidential election campaign.
The reports by Rambler News Service on January 26 come a day after the Kommersant newspaper reported that a senior officer of the cyberintelligence department of the FSB -- Russias lead security agency -- had been arrested.
Kommersant said Sergei Mikhailov, deputy chief of the FSB's Center for Information Security, had been arrested in December on treason charges.
(snip)
The newspaper cited unidentified sources as saying that Mikhailov is suspected of providing U.S. intelligence with information about King Servers, a hosting service owned by Russian citizen Vladimir Fomenko.
King Servers was used as a platform by hackers who targeted state-election computer systems in Arizona and Illinois last year. Fomenko, who rents space on his servers, has denied any links to the perpetrators of the cyberattacks.
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There are reports of additional arrests.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/wow-it-gets-bigger
marybourg
(12,634 posts)to decipher all this. . . Oh wait. . .
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,198 posts)onecaliberal
(32,894 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)This is what happens in the void of professionals in Intel.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)get the red out
(13,468 posts)My first thought.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)it will be leaked. The swamp may get drained from all these leaks springing up in DC.
Rex
(65,616 posts)crazylikafox
(2,762 posts)I expect to see them "disappeared"
Iggo
(47,565 posts)GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)Putin is either going to invite them to a polonium tea party, or tie them to a board with piano wire and feed them, alive and conscious, feet-first into a crematorium furnace. I hear there's a precedent for both of those.
MaeScott
(878 posts)These are US assets being outed by someone over here.
https://themoscowtimes.com/news/americas-alleged-spy-in-the-heart-of-russian-cybersecurity-56945?utm_source=CGI+Daily+Russia+Brief&utm_campaign=d22e6a1966-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_814a2b3260-d22e6a1966-281732809&mc_cid=d22e6a1966&mc_eid=ba2db135c1
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)So Putin is locking them away so they'll keep nice and quiet.
OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)He may have just found out about them recently.
Sunny05
(865 posts)and quick note -- this is my second Q of you on this topic. The other was on another OP thread.
Now I think I'm getting it (different Q from the one earlier today): Your notion is that Flynn, in effort to help the Russians (not to pretend to be on U.S. side) outed this guy to Russians.
Yeah, I know, but it took a while for details to sink in, even the one stated in any post on this topic. There's so much going on that I cannot wrap my head around it.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)That's what "shock and awe" is all about.
Yes. A likely scenario that fits the facts is that they were agents in deep cover helping the CIA. Then Flynn came in as a deep-cover Russian agent himself, with loyalty to Putin and Dugin. In the course of coming up to speed as National Security Adviser he found out who they were and promptly outed them.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)He outed his own employees?
No one is safe.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)Enormous FUD is generated, with a loss of trust everywhere. Things grind to a halt. Except for Executive Orders, of course.
Sunny05
(865 posts)This is terrifying. Of course, all that we have known (even if just generalities) for a long time and thus the many things we suspected have left us all terrified for some time.
Well, my God. Time will tell where the CIA or at least its leadership or key staff/agents or majority of agents all stand ... It seems like that is what things are coming down to. I mean, there's no foreseeable help from Congress (next elections too far off). The FBI is not an option. I don't know about the rest of U.S. agencies, how things are going there. So, based on the major institutions and agencies I know of, it seems as if our well-being, if not our existence, rests on where the CIA loyalties lie.
I think I'm going to move to Mexico and pay them for it.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)This is far beyond anything any of us have imagined, which is why it's so hard to make any sense of what's happening. And I don't think it's going to slow down any time soon. There are going to be a lot of people with that "deer in the headlights" stare over the next few months as things really get rolling.
Iggo
(47,565 posts)-- Signed: Russia.
moondust
(20,006 posts)Before he decided to drink that nasty polonium stuff.
hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,327 posts)clean house of the traitors and Russian sympathizers.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)?
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)Initech
(100,102 posts)orangecrush
(19,617 posts)What an unsuprising coincidence.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)I assume that briefing included highly classified information about CIA Assets in Russia and information shared with Trump to dispel any doubt about why the Intelligence community had such high confidence that the Russians were behind the hacking. And now the Russians are rounding up people they have come to believe are traitors. Hmmm.