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50 Shades Of Blue

(10,190 posts) Tue Feb 20, 2024, 08:33 PM Feb 2024

Alexander Smirnov has been released until trial.

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Ryan J. Reilly
@ryanjreilly
BREAKING: A FBI informant with ties to Russian intelligence officials has been ordered released until trial on charges he fed the bureau lies that fueled the GOP's Biden impeachment inquiry.

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Alexander Smirnov has been released until trial. (Original Post) 50 Shades Of Blue Feb 2024 OP

He should stay on first floors and only eat drive through fast food. LakeArenal Feb 2024 #1

How many days do you think it will take before he's poisoned? no_hypocrisy Feb 2024 #2

He did a good job. Putin might promote him. Irish_Dem Feb 2024 #4

Nope. He got caught. He can talk. Poison. no_hypocrisy Feb 2024 #12

Putin wants the world to know he has infiltrated the FBI. And the FBI takes orders from him. Irish_Dem Feb 2024 #18

Of course he has. We don't want to look partisan do we? Irish_Dem Feb 2024 #3

You get it gab13by13 Feb 2024 #5

The FBI will probably help him leave the country. Irish_Dem Feb 2024 #6

He could move to Florida gab13by13 Feb 2024 #9

No troublesome federal laws either. Irish_Dem Feb 2024 #10

You mean Rebl2 Feb 2024 #16

you think the magistrate who released him was afraid of looking partisan? bigtree Feb 2024 #13

With a bracelet on and his passport withheld, I hope. OAITW r.2.0 Feb 2024 #7

Dead man walking. blm Feb 2024 #8

Why? gab13by13 Feb 2024 #11

They didn't talk. This guy already admitted he met with Russian Intel. blm Feb 2024 #15

Dude is already in the wind angrychair Feb 2024 #14

Sure hope they confiscated his passport choie Feb 2024 #17

LakeArenal

(28,983 posts)

1. He should stay on first floors and only eat drive through fast food.

Reply to 50 Shades Of Blue (Original post)

Tue Feb 20, 2024, 08:35 PM

Feb 2024

no_hypocrisy

(46,508 posts)

2. How many days do you think it will take before he's poisoned?

Reply to 50 Shades Of Blue (Original post)

Tue Feb 20, 2024, 08:35 PM

Feb 2024

Irish_Dem

(49,398 posts)

4. He did a good job. Putin might promote him.

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 20, 2024, 08:37 PM

Feb 2024

no_hypocrisy

(46,508 posts)

12. Nope. He got caught. He can talk. Poison.

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #4)

Tue Feb 20, 2024, 09:09 PM

Feb 2024

Irish_Dem

(49,398 posts)

18. Putin wants the world to know he has infiltrated the FBI. And the FBI takes orders from him.

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Reply #12)

Wed Feb 21, 2024, 06:56 AM

Feb 2024

Last edited Wed Feb 21, 2024, 07:27 AM - Edit history (1)

And the same with the US congress.

It was such an obvious scam of course Putin knew he'd get caught

I happen to believe that Putin wants the world to know what he's doing.

He doesn't bother to even hide how he murders his opponents.

He leaves his calling card so the world knows what a despicable and powerful character he is.

Irish_Dem

(49,398 posts)

3. Of course he has. We don't want to look partisan do we?

Reply to 50 Shades Of Blue (Original post)

Tue Feb 20, 2024, 08:36 PM

Feb 2024

Russian assets trying to intimidate and bully a sitting president's family.
Aided and abetted by the FBI.

gab13by13

(21,756 posts)

5. You get it

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #3)

Tue Feb 20, 2024, 08:38 PM

Feb 2024

Wonder if they took his passport? No bail?

Irish_Dem

(49,398 posts)

6. The FBI will probably help him leave the country.

Reply to gab13by13 (Reply #5)

Tue Feb 20, 2024, 08:42 PM

Feb 2024

These are the same FBI agents who cannot tell when they are being conned by a Russian asset.
Sure.

gab13by13

(21,756 posts)

9. He could move to Florida

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #6)

Tue Feb 20, 2024, 09:00 PM

Feb 2024

Where there is no extradition.

Irish_Dem

(49,398 posts)

10. No troublesome federal laws either.

Reply to gab13by13 (Reply #9)

Tue Feb 20, 2024, 09:02 PM

Feb 2024

And he will find lots of work, DeSatan will keep him busy.

Rebl2

(13,711 posts)

16. You mean

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #6)

Tue Feb 20, 2024, 09:35 PM

Feb 2024

Wray will help him flee. Effing unbelievable they let him out on bail. Wray should be fired yesterday.

bigtree

(86,118 posts)

13. you think the magistrate who released him was afraid of looking partisan?

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #3)

Tue Feb 20, 2024, 09:10 PM

Feb 2024

...what do you think the FBI had to do with the decision? The government wanted him detained until trial.

Unless you're talking about Barr's DOJ.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel J. Albregts found that the government failed to make its case that Smirnov had to be detained until trial.

And the FBI wasn't the one using this against the Biden's. It was House republicans demanding that this information be revealed in an attempt to use it against Pres. Biden.

House Republicans have spent the days since the indictment downplaying the impact it had on their impeachment inquiry, with House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., saying their case "is not reliant" on the false claims. Comer had threatened to hold the FBI director in contempt over the summer, ultimately convincing the bureau to show members of the Oversight Committee an "FD-1023 form" that documented the false statements Smirnov allegedly made to his FBI handler in 2020, though the bureau emphasized at the time that the existence of the form did not mean the claims were vetted. One of the Republicans who viewed the form quickly proclaimed that Joe Biden was "100% guilty" of bribery.

OAITW r.2.0

(25,013 posts)

7. With a bracelet on and his passport withheld, I hope.

Reply to 50 Shades Of Blue (Original post)

Tue Feb 20, 2024, 08:44 PM

Feb 2024

I really want to follow this guy's trial. There is going to be some really ugly political shit getting exposed.

Questions: How many millions have House Republicans spent trying to make an impeachment case on Biden.....based on Russian BS fed to the elected dopes in today's Republican Party? What has this clown show cost the American Taxpayer, House Democrats?

How about doing a full blown press-con with all Democrats on the Committee to discuss this taxpayer cost and help us better understand why they would use this person as evidence?