{"id":19582,"date":"2010-06-29T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19582"},"modified":"2010-06-29T10:04:26","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T14:04:26","slug":"11-russian-spies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19582","title":{"rendered":"11 Russian spies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of course, that is the story that’ll suck the air out of everything else this week. The Holder Justice Department finally found some foreigners that they’ll round up and announce their evil intentions on the TV. The Washington Post<\/a> reports;<\/p>\n

The operation, referred to by U.S. investigators as “the Illegals program,” was aimed at placing spies in nongovernmental jobs, such as at think tanks, where they could glean information from policymakers and Washington-connected insiders without attracting attention.<\/p>\n

Whether it succeeded was unclear Monday. Federal law enforcement officials portrayed their operation as a spectacular counterintelligence success that uncovered a group of spies capable of doing great damage to U.S. national security. “I can’t remember a case where we’ve been able to arrest 10 intelligence officers from a foreign country in one fell swoop,” one official said. “This network in the United States has now been completely compromised.”<\/p>\n

But other officials said the Russian network appears to have accomplished little, if any, of its espionage aims, even though some of the suspects had lived in this country for up to two decades. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s all well and good, three administrations unraveled the spy ring – but where were they when Nidal Hassan was making noise while he was in uniform making disparaging remarks about the US operations in the Middle East – just before he shot a bunch of soldiers in Fort Hood? Where were they when Carlos Bledsoe was making trips to the Mideast for training before he shot two soldiers in Arkansas?<\/p>\n

Russian spies are easy – two people named Murphy speaking Russian to each other. How hard was that? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of course, that is the story that’ll suck the air out of everything else this week. … 11 Russian spies<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}