The NY FBI Office - Russia story is far worse than the first take on it would seem - Timothy Snyder posted at 18:57:50 UTC via m.dailykos.com
Michael Novakhov's favorite articles The NY FBI Office - Russia story is far worse than the first take on it would seem - Timothy Snyder posted at 18:57:50 UTC via m.dailykos.com Share this article The Specter of 2016 posted at 19:02:35 UTC via snyder.substack.com We are on the edge of a spy scandal with major implications for how we understand the Trump administration, our national security, and ourselves. On 23 January, we learned that a former FBI special agent, Charles McGonigal, was arrested on charges involving taking money to serve foreign interests. One accusation is that in 2017 he took $225,000 from a foreign actor while in charge of counterintelligence at the FBI's New York office. Another charge is that McGonigal took money from Oleg Deripaska, a sanctioned Russian oligarch, after McGonigal’s 2018 retirement from the FBI. Deripaska, a hugely wealthy metals tycoon close to the Kremlin, " Putin's favorite industrialist ," was a figure in a Ru
