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Tweets Review: “Charlie,” he said, “still loves the #FBI.” - nytimes.com: This phrase may be interpreted as the warning: "And if he feels that the FBI does not love him enough, he may spill the beans..." Do it, Charlie! And do it now! I do not think that the Washington D.C. court should accept his guilty plea. The People have the right to know. Everything.

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Ex-FBI counterintelligence chief sentenced to over four years in prison for work with Russian oligarch posted at 10:52:03 UTC   via   edition.cnn.com The former head of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York field office was sentenced to just over four years in prison for  working for a sanctioned Russian oligarch  after leaving the government. Charles McGonigal, a 22-year veteran of the FBI, pleaded guilty in August to one count of conspiracy to violate US sanctions and money laundering for working for Oleg Deripaska, a wealthy Russian with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Judge Jennifer Rearden sentenced McGonigal to 50 months in prison, just below the statutory maximum of five years. The judge ordered McGonigal to surrender to prison on February 26. McGonigal, the judge said, “repeatedly flouted and manipulated the sanctions regimes vital” to US national security interests and “the undeniable seriousness of this and the need ...