Mariia Butina studied U.S. groups' cyberdefenses
Source: NBC News
WASHINGTON A year before federal prosecutors accused Mariia Butina of operating as a secret agent for the Russian government, she was a graduate student at American University working on a sensitive project involving cybersecurity.
Butina's college assignment called for her to gather information on the cyberdefenses of U.S. nonprofit organizations that champion media freedom and human rights, The Associated Press has learned. It was information that could help the groups plug important vulnerabilities, but also would be of interest to the Russian government.
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suegeo
(2,573 posts)because fuck the GOP, Russified fascist goons. Organized crime psychopaths.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)suegeo
(2,573 posts)Grover Norquist and Butina.
The NRA.
Henry Fuck'n Kissenger and that dumb ass think tank.
And on and on and on.
The GOP is in this Russia crap deep. Fuck 'em and the horse they rode in on. Fucking traitors.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)the country they profess to love so much, out in the open. I knew shit was getting weird when all these right wing dickbags started comparing Putin to Obama. It's like they would get wood thinking of their new sugar daddy.
HurricaneWarning
(220 posts)riverwalker
(8,694 posts)Is through her longtime friend and former campaign finance director, G.Kline Preston IV.
He introduced Torshin to Butina, was her liaison. He is a Russophile who has a shrine to Putin in his office. Cant believe it isnt a bigger campaign issue in Tennessee.
Judi Lynn
(160,623 posts)They're probably doing everything possible to deflect awareness in her state. It should have sunk her, already.
Thanks for the information.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)That foreign controlled "gun charity" should be shut down. washingtonDC & Americans government would be better off without them.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)keeps on coming and delivering - even from a jail cell.