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Social-Media Account Overseen by Former Navy Noncommissioned Officer Helped Spread Secrets
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Posted on 04/17/2023 7:17:52 AM PDT by Brilliant

A social-media account overseen by a former U.S. Navy noncommissioned officer—a prominent online voice supporting Russia’s war on Ukraine—played a key role in the spread of intelligence documents allegedly leaked by Airman First Class Jack Teixeira.

A purported Russian blogger known as Donbass Devushka, which translates as Donbas Girl, reposted the files from obscure online chat rooms. The blog is the face of a network of pro-Kremlin social-media, podcasting, merchandise and fundraising accounts. But the person who hosted podcasts as Donbass Devushka and oversees these accounts is a Washington-state-based former U.S. enlisted aviation electronics technician whose real name is Sarah Bils.

Russia first intervened in the Donbas part of eastern Ukraine in 2014, and most of the recent fighting has focused on that area.

Ms. Bils, 37 years old, served at the U.S. naval air station on Whidbey Island until late last year, even as the accounts she had established and supervised glorified the Russian military and the paramilitary Wagner Group. They are among the most widely followed English-language social-media outlets promoting Russia’s views.

In an interview Saturday at her home in Oak Harbor, Wash., Ms. Bils said she is an administrator of the Donbass Devushka persona, and acknowledged raising funds and hosting podcasts under that name. She added, however, that she is one of 15 people “all over the world” involved in running the Donbass Devushka network. Ms. Bils declined to identify these people...

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia; US: Washington
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To: marcusmaximus

That’s weird.

Sounds like theater, not treason.


21 posted on 04/17/2023 7:58:19 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

She also said she was fired by the Navy for her liberal views.


22 posted on 04/17/2023 8:00:45 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: jerod

Actually a good point

50 years ago we didn’t have the most corrupted government in history.taking usnto hell. Now we do.

We also didn’t hide lies, malfeasance and crimes and call that “intel.”


23 posted on 04/17/2023 8:01:08 AM PDT by AAABEST ( NY/DC/CA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: Nextrush
The feds are investigating her the advance publicity is designed to get folks riled up against her you’re doing what the feds want you to do.

Today's "Two Minutes Hate"

24 posted on 04/17/2023 8:02:59 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mariner

Psycho divorced middle aged cat lady with a fake Russian accent.


25 posted on 04/17/2023 8:03:34 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Mariner

“The US is not at war with Russia.”


Treason is specifically defined in the Constitution as ‘giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the U.S.’ The last time Congress declared war was in April of 1942. We have officially had no enemies since the end of WWII.

The Founders were careful with the treason charge because of their knowledge of English/British history, where a treason charge, and its horrible punishment could be levied against anyone who ‘discomforted’ the monarch.

The Rosenbergs were executed for espionage, not treason. The last person executed for treason in the U.S. was a guy in New Orleans who pulled down an American flag during the Civil War.


26 posted on 04/17/2023 8:04:38 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: PGR88

Know what I can’t understand? How anyone with at least two brain cells can give our government one shred of credibility.

Everything they claim is a blatant lie in their favor over the people.


27 posted on 04/17/2023 8:07:08 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

28 posted on 04/17/2023 8:19:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: Midwesterner53

But wait! Hillary Clinton fits this category.


29 posted on 04/17/2023 8:24:31 AM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: Brilliant
You're a fool. Those running this account exposed all the propaganda coming from the Biden regime about this war.

This war is ONE the Biden regime, NATO, the WEF and the "liberal world order" in order to enrich themselves. We fomented a revolution in Ukraine with the intent of weaponizing it against Russia. We funded, trained and enable neo-Nazis and Ukrainian nationalist to persecute and kill ethnic Russians. We teased NATO expansion and built a military in Ukraine that was a national security threat to Russia. We thwarted peace at every turn, having Ukraine sign and renege on the Minsk Accords and killing a peace deal last March in Turkey.

This proxy war has been a DISASTER for the American people. It's increased inflation throughout the west. It's undermining the dollar as the world's reserve currency. And, has us closer to a hot war with Russia, nuclear war and WWIII than we were during the Cold War.

You're the traitor for siding with the bastards that pushed this agenda, which is the Biden regime, Deep State and the WEF a-holes.

30 posted on 04/17/2023 8:30:11 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: Nextrush

“The people who are against Russia in the Ukraine War are leading us to Armageddon.”

Wrong. Putin has taken the lead on that. But yes, THE “higher power” will have the final say.


31 posted on 04/17/2023 8:32:06 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Kazan

I agree that the war has increased inflation. But we did not start the war. Russia did. Anyone who supports Russia in this war is complicit with that. The threat of Nato expansion was just an excuse that Putin used to start this war. Putin is not short of excuses. He’s used every excuse that Hitler used to justify invading his neighbors, and then some.


32 posted on 04/17/2023 8:37:48 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant

Assuming the leaks are not a staged event, having such low level people as this woman and a 21 year old enlisted man have access to military secrets would indicate almost incredible incompetence on the part of the Defense Department. I would rather believe that the leaks were some sort of deception, with these two as scapegoats than the stupidity of letting low level persons have such levels of access to secrets.


33 posted on 04/17/2023 8:41:01 AM PDT by Wallace T. ( )
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To: Brilliant

Two not mutually exclusive categories.

Barack Obama, at the time a high ranking U.S. official holding an elective office called “president” gave Ukraine security guarantees in return for surrendering their nuclear weapons. Russia and the United Kingdom made similar promises.

Obama gave guarantees that he no way or intention of keeping. They should have known better.


34 posted on 04/17/2023 8:41:35 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: Kazan

Bump


35 posted on 04/17/2023 8:42:26 AM PDT by AAABEST ( NY/DC/CA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: Mariner

“The US is not at war with Russia. It is not possible to be traitor to the US by supporting Russia.”

Not true. The first U.S. arrests of American Nazi spies working for Germnay was in 1938. Germany was already on the war path in Europe but formal declarations of war by France and Britain did not occur until a year later - 1939. We did not have to be at war with Germany nor even yet deliver aid to our allies in Europe to recogniza they were our allies and aiding Hitler was against our national interest.


36 posted on 04/17/2023 8:42:56 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Wallace T.

I initially thought it might be a deception. But the problem is that it’s become so embarrassing to the people in power that I can’t believe they would continue with the charade if that were the case.

I think Occam’s razor says they are just incredibly incompetent.


37 posted on 04/17/2023 8:46:35 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant

TREASON????


38 posted on 04/17/2023 8:49:54 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Midwesterner53

I’ll bet she’s a REGISTERED DEMOCRAT and maybe ab ACTIVIST!


39 posted on 04/17/2023 8:51:54 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Brilliant

“These people who are helping Russia in its war against Ukraine come in two categories: Useful idiots and traitors.”

Yup.


40 posted on 04/17/2023 8:53:07 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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