US Catches Kremlin Insider Who May Have Secrets of 2016 Hack (bloomberg.com) 65
In the days before Christmas, U.S. officials in Boston unveiled insider trading charges against a Russian tech tycoon they had been pursuing for months. They accused Vladislav Klyushin, who'd been extradited from Switzerland on Dec. 18, of illegally making tens of millions of dollars trading on hacked corporate-earnings information. From a report: Yet as authorities laid out their securities fraud case, a striking portrait of the detainee emerged: Klyushin was not only an accused insider trader, but a Kremlin insider. He ran an information technology company that works with the Russian government's top echelons. Just 18 months earlier, Klyushin received a medal of honor from Russian President Vladimir Putin. The U.S. had, in its custody, the highest-level Kremlin insider handed to U.S. law enforcement in recent memory. Klyushin's cybersecurity work and Kremlin ties could make him a useful source of information for U.S. officials, according to several people familiar with Russian intelligence matters. Most critically, these people said, if he chooses to cooperate, he could provide Americans with their closest view yet of 2016 election manipulation.
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Perhaps this is more clear:
https://www.wesh.com/article/s... [wesh.com]
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Re:Russia! Russia! Russia! (Score:5, Insightful)
Not just gerrymandering, but geography via the Senate and Electoral Collage. Republicans have won the popular vote for President once since 1992. Similarly, even though the Senate is split 50/50, the Democratic half represent about 40,000,000 more people than the Republican half. The House is slightly more fairly allocated, but even so there is a structural Republican advantage (mostly due to census year control and more gerrymandering by Republicans--who are pretty open about it).
So the argument that Dems need a better agenda is belied by the actual vote totals, which election after election are mostly for Democrats.
Of course, this guy will end up drinking a polonium cocktail if he comes close to revealing Kremlin involvement in anything criminal, so I expect him to shut up and do his time.
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He clearly described the House as being susceptible to gerrymandering (it is) and made no such claim of the Senate.
In fact, his very first sentence is:
Not just gerrymandering, but geography via the Senate and Electoral Collage.
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When the parent refers to the Republican advantage in the Senate, what is being referred to is that there is that Blue States have a significant population advantage, having two Senators from each state, and there being more Red States than Blue States means the Republicans have a built in advantage in the Senate which is hard for the Dems to overcome (at least in the medium term). The advantage the Republicans in House elections is more unbalanced, and gerrymandering and other vote suppression techniques a
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...One of these things is not like the other...
Nice tell (Score:4, Informative)
I'd be pretty surprised to find out you aren't a conservative as what you describe is hardly a problem specific to Pelosi https://www.businessinsider.co... [businessinsider.com] .
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Ugga wuuga, wimens has power? Oh noes!
Re:chump change (Score:5, Insightful)
How much did the Russians pay you to name drop Pelosi, and not Trump or any of the other Republicans that do the exact same thing? All legally.
You dislike the activity, then admit the GOP does it too and call them out.
Otherwise you are just a scumbag trying to pretend the Republicans are not exactly as bad as the Democrats, at least on this issue.
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Why are you only bothered by Democrat plutocrats?
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Sounds like a big problem, better notify the authorities! They depend on you! Put on your Super Suit so they know the importance of your mission. [unrealitymag.com] FoxMan to the rescue!
Putin can just deal for him! (Score:2)
Putin can just deal for him!
2016 wasn't manipulated! (Score:2, Insightful)
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2016 Trumps winning wasn't a surprise, the polling even showed it was close. 2016 had Clinton Leading, but within the margin of error, also Trump had bumps in polling during times when Clinton had made a mistake saying the wrong thing, or the Email scandal, Having the FBI open the questioning so close to the election caused the election to go towards Trump.
Russian misinformation I think was a factor, but probably wouldn't have changed the results. Clinton was a name targeted by Conservative media for deca
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Sit and spin, Ivan, sit and spin.
Or take a break, you sound out of breath.
Big pros they are (Score:2)
And what better way to get a high profile suspect to divulge sensitive information (which may or may not lead to his or those close to him untimeli demise at the hands of known unscrupulous and murder-ish regime) than to post this widely in the mass media for all to read. Clearly a very thought through operation.
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That's a strange idea. I don't know how things work where you come from, but here in the US you can't hide things like this.
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That is of course uninformed nonsense. You can easily hide something like that in the US with secret courts, secret laws and NSLs. But the Swiss will not do a secret extradition, so the cat was out of the bag.
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Oh, I see. You're just an idiot?
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Oh, I see. You're just an idiot?
You really should cut back on the drugs.
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And what better way to get a high profile suspect to divulge sensitive information (which may or may not lead to his or those close to him untimeli demise at the hands of known unscrupulous and murder-ish regime) than to post this widely in the mass media for all to read. Clearly a very thought through operation.
So you want the US to secretly arrest him then try him before a secret court?
Either way, If the Russian government is relying on Bloomberg to figure out that one of their high level assets has been arrested by the US then we probably don't have to worry about their intelligence operations after all.
Re:Seriously? (Score:4, Informative)
I thought everyone already knew the Russia election tampering thing was bullshit?
Or are they starting this whole thing back up again for something to talk about during the next election?
Furthermore, the sources say that Russian intelligence has concluded that Klyushin has access to documents related to Russia’s campaign to hack into servers of the Democratic Party in 2016, and the subsequent effort to leak damaging information to the press in an effort to bolster Donald Trump’s chances at winning the presidency that year. The documents would establish that the hack was led by Russian military intelligence, giving the U.S. its best documentary evidence yet that the Russian government was directly involved in the hack.
Yeah, total bullshit [marketwatch.com].
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It really does sound like BS (Score:2)
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His Majesty is fair on this: the person responsible must pay.
There is inevitable progress even in handling by KGB.
OTOH, buddy has permit issued by Russian Ministry Of Defense, also cherishes personal award from Vladimir Vladimirovich, The Tsar.
He is the servant, acquainted to the protocol. I would be much less for the surprises. Spells N-O-V-I-C-H-O-K.
Re:Can they please give us a break... (Score:4, Insightful)
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"New evidence?" We're still waiting for -any- evidence of this alleged Russian hack.
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Here ya go, twinkletits - a bi-partisan Senate report!
https://www.intelligence.senat... [senate.gov]
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I realize that not everyone knows what the word "evidence" means, as evidenced by your reply. Funny how nobody seems to be able to come up with evidence for the thing that allegedly started all of this. I guess that's what happens when you don't let the FBI investigate the allegedly compromised server. You end up with a non-surprising lack of evidence.
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Do you mean the case the United States government claimed they had again the Russian company called the Internet Research Agency. The United States government charged them in Federal court. However, when the Internet Research Agency showed up in court to defend themselves, the United States government dropped the charges.
You mean that reason.
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...this is not such an accusation, it is the reporting of arresting a criminal.
Funny, that. I was given to understand that you Americans had something called a "justice system", one of whose inviolable rules was that a person is always deemed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Yet you somehow know that this person is a criminal. Maybe you have a time machine, and know that he will be found guilty of... something.
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Wow, just wow. Change the goal-posts again, because you lost using the current one.
How much are the Russians paying you to spout garbage? Not enough, because you sure do.
You and your Putin paid idiots allies denied Russian did the crime and said there we should shut up because their was no evidence, so we should not be reporting on how they arrested a guy who was clearly going to give evidence.
When I point out with the arrest we are obtaining evidence, you shift to saying innocent until proven guilty.
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U.S. Catches Kremlin Insider (Score:1)
Now the US has a choice (Score:2)
They can keep this guy for whatever dubious information they can get from him, or they can (probably) trade him for Snowden. I sincerely hope they do the former, but I'm very afraid that they'll try the latter. I think Putin has gotten just about all the mileage he can from Snowden, and would be happy to trade him.
Obviously an idiot (Score:2)
Should have done minimal due diligence on his travel plans. Well, money makes some people lose sight of reality.
Dangle a big enough carrot (Score:2)
So if he provides "background", not being a technical guy, and follows the cues of US officials who want him to provide info on "the great 2016 hack by Russia!", he gets to walk free? Or if his lawyers just tease the idea that he'll cooperate, thus validating the theory that Russia! helped cheat Hillary Clinton out of her deserved win, he could earn some considerations?
Then yeah, expect his lawyers to make the appropriate sounds.
They won't get anything (Score:1)
I know people have been hoping for some kind of ex machina reveal that would once and for all expose Trump as a Russian colluder. At this point it's just a marker of the TDS afflict
What about 2020 Election Manipulation? (Score:2)
This guy is going the way of Jeffrey Epstein (Score:1)
Re: This guy is going the way of Jeffrey Epstein (Score:1)
OMG Attack of the Modal Verb 'May' (Score:1)
More Russia Russia Russia (Score:1)
Hacked corporate-earnings information? (Score:2)
Do you mean they guessed the next URL in a sequence and accessed the report using that before it was posted online?
“Most critically, these people said, if he chooses to cooperate, he could provide Americans with their closest view yet of 2016 election manipulation.”
Insert neocon cyber BS.