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Russian hacker claims FBI offered him [a new life if he would confess to hacking Podesta emails]
americanthinker.com ^ | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 05/12/2017 7:28:19 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

Full Title: Russian hacker claims FBI offered him citizenship and a new life if he would confess to hacking Podesta emails on behalf of Putin and Trump

According to a report in Newsweek by Tom O’Connor, a Russian hacker who had been detained in Prague at the request of US authorities, was visited multiple times by FBI agents, who pressed him to confess to hacking the Podesta emails at the behest of Putin, and to help Trump. They allegedly (and unsuccessfully) offered generous inducements, to say the least.

Yevgeniy Nikulin, 29, has found himself in the middle of an international dispute between Washington and Moscow, at the very center of which lies U.S. allegations that Russia sponsored a series of hacks targeting Democratic Party candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in favor of Republican candidate and current President Donald Trump. On October 5, 2016, days before U.S. intelligence publicly accused Russia of endorsing an infiltration of Democratic Party officials' emails, Nikulin was arrested in Prague at the request of the U.S. on separate hacking charges. Now, Nikulin claims U.S. authorities tried to pin the email scandal on him.

Nikulin was detained in the Czech Republic for allegedly hacking the servers of major sites LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring between 2012 and 2013. While awaiting trial, he claims in an undated letter reportedly given to U.S. Russian-language news site Nastoyashchoe Vremya by Nikulin's lawyer, Martin Sadilek, that the FBI visited him at least a couple of times, offering to drop the charges and grant him U.S. citizenship as well as cash and an apartment in the U.S. if the Russian national confessed to participating in the 2016 hacks of Clinton campaign chief John Podesta's emails in July. (snip)


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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: dncleaks; podesta; russia; russianhacking; trump; trumprussia; wikileaks
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To: RoosterRedux

This entire Russian Hacking narrative is nothing more than an Obama/Jarrett contrived cover story pushed to the MSM in order to obfuscate the illegal (unauthorized) surveillance of American Citizens, specifically Trump and his associates, who’s election would undermine the Obama “legacy”.

America, Russia, China, UK, and Israel have been in the foreign election influence business for decades.


21 posted on 05/12/2017 8:13:06 AM PDT by Hat-Trick (Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

Elliott Ness would have had second thoughts before applying for a job in today’s FBI The diamond is no more than polished quartz.


22 posted on 05/12/2017 8:17:33 AM PDT by V K Lee (DJT: "Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. ")
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23 posted on 05/12/2017 8:24:33 AM PDT by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: Tallguy

The key part of the sentence is: on behalf of Trump. With McCabe at the helm who knows what kind of mischief the Rats inside the FBI may be up to?


24 posted on 05/12/2017 8:32:42 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: RoosterRedux

Good morning.

What was the agent’s name?

He would have told them, and produced a badge and ID.

5.56mm


25 posted on 05/12/2017 8:34:36 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: RoosterRedux

The intelligence Community is a separate state within the borders of the USA and it functions to occupy America.

It has its own personal, it’s only territory, its own rules and norms, and in part, it haswas it’s own funding.

the IC **occupies** America.


26 posted on 05/12/2017 8:51:57 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: RoosterRedux

When u.s. government people make Hackers from the former Soviet Bloc appear honest by comparison, you know you are living in an occupied country.

Remember when you were a kid and you learned about the Holocaust, and they saiD:

“What would you do if in America the Nazis were taking over? Would would you remain quiet as so many men did, or would you instead speak up and risk yourself..?”

I got news for you:

those days are HERE.


27 posted on 05/12/2017 8:57:55 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: babble-on

No, Seth Rich did.


28 posted on 05/12/2017 10:47:54 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: All

If true, the perps should be hanged.


29 posted on 05/12/2017 11:25:48 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: RoosterRedux

This is reason enough to gut the FBI of Clinton/Obama/Bush people.

Comey firing was a good start.


30 posted on 05/12/2017 12:09:51 PM PDT by Syncro (Facts is facts)
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To: Titus-Maximus

Comey’s FBI sounds like it was working for the DNC.
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Naturally as Comey was a Clinton stooge for 3 decades... everyone under him knows what’s expected.


31 posted on 05/12/2017 12:25:08 PM PDT by Neidermeyer (Show me a peaceful Muslim and I will show you a heretic to the Koran.)
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