Authorities charged 11 individuals with the plot, 10 of whom were arrested on Sunday in Boston, New York, New Jersey and Virginia on charges including conspiracy to act as unlawful agents of the Russian Federation and money laundering.
The group, dubbed the "Illegals", was accused of being tasked by the Russian intelligence agency SVR to enter the United States, assume false identities and become "deep-cover" Americans, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
Their goal was to "become sufficiently 'Americanized' such that they can gather information about the United States for Russia and can successfully recruit sources who are in, or are able to infiltrate, United States policy-making circles," according to criminal complaints filed in U.S. federal court.
However, they were not assigned to collect classified, secret information, a Justice Department official said. Most are believed to be originally from Russia and trained to secretly infiltrate the United States.
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Wonder what this is going to do to the Won's newly reset relations with the Russkies.
Someone please explain to me the difference between these people and the Mexican problem.
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However, they were not assigned to collect classified, secret information, a Justice Department official said. Most are believed to be originally from Russia and trained to secretly infiltrate the United States. [/Quote]
Money laundering, check, for both, trying to pass as citizens, check ,for both, worming their way into the seats of government to influence them, check for both.
These people have not been charged with rioting in the streets, killing our citizens and scaring the heck out of our police. So far no charges of bringing in millions of dollars in drugs,. There are few if any of these people on wellfare, or joining gangs to make their neighborhoods so dangerous that no one will visit there even in broad day light.
Why do we not charge the Mexicans with spying as each and every illegal has some kind of family that want to see America brought down.
I am sure the Muslim comunity has a few people that make these guys look like that TV show " Get Smart and the Agent with the shoe phone.
Btw, I abhor home grown spy's, the number of Navy men that corrupted our Submarine service ---should have been hung in front of the Justice Department.
I look forward to this spy case, as as long as we allow people to stand in public and Damn our country, using their influence with the top government law makers, and allow some dinkey 3rd. world country to try to influence our laws for their benefit, some one is going to have to show me what kind of damage they have done to our country or are capable of doing.
One the other hand if these people had been quarted in the border states I would wonder if they were not working with the illigals--perhaps they were at a distance, this will become very interesting.
As usual, I am very confused.
I wonder if this would have happend had the JDL been caught at all this.??
