Love it. Nothing better than a good old spy scandal. Gee, it seems like only a few days since President Toonces was yukking it up with Medvedyev at the burger summit and lecturing us on our inordinate fear of Communism.

Man these Commies are dumb! Toonces is giving away the store with both hands and they're still running ops against us. Are they trying to make him look bad?

Exit question: Is Toonces determined to recapitulate each and every national security disaster of the Carter regime? Carter lost Iran, Toonces has lost Turkey; now he gets the wake up call re the Russians. Turns out that if you give them an inch, they will take a yard. Everybody knows this except, apparently, the faculty lounge Marxist in the White House.

This case is still yet to unfold and I fear it will get a lot worse.

Catching this many non-official cover agents is historic. Will they be charged with espionage? Too soon to tell.

Looks like this network has been operating since the 1990's. Clinton years. Very interesting.

Agents of influence are the most damaging kind of spy. Insidious, and very very difficult to catch. Just look at Hollywood. LOL

Yes, this ring in itself was never going to do much. It wasnt supposed to. Moscow saw this as an easy, low-risk operation. I believe this operation was mainly about building human networks, and developing some level of influence over a few select areas. These sort of things in themselves are small, but if used properly, they can drastically facilitate later, more immediately important, and riskier, operations

Moscow has been running influence operations against us for years. Remember the good Rev. Wright's preaching about the US government inventing AIDS to kill black people? Made up by and publicized by the KGB. How about the yarn that the CIA conspired in JFK's assassination? Same. Ever heard the allegations that J. Edgar Hoover was gay and a frequent crossdresser? More KGB disinformation. There was a piece on 60 Minutes a while back about all this. This info and more came from KGB archives smuggled out in the 90's. The Soviets had a long history of running these 'active measures' and the post-1991 Russians aren't any different. Putin was a KGB man to the core. Still is. These latest spy games don't surprise me in the least.

Man these Commies are dumb! Toonces is giving away the store with both hands and they're still running ops against us. Are they trying to make him look bad?

Exit question: Is Toonces determined to recapitulate each and every national security disaster of the Carter regime? Carter lost Iran, Toonces has lost Turkey; now he gets the wake up call re the Russians. Turns out that if you give them an inch, they will take a yard. Everybody luxury rolex watches knows this except, apparently, the faculty lounge Marxist in the White House.