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What does the future hold for Chris Cuomo? Were it the '80s he could be the overpeppy permed host for one of those old 'morning workout' programs.

 

Well, you start with a podcast. Spend some time mending fences. Maybe runs for State Senate in a safe area of New York, find a pet issue that will play well with the NPR/New Yorker crowd and voila - a second act. Or you start doing infomercials that show up at 2 a.m. about a new product that will protect you from social media predators.

 

They're just finding this out now?

 

"And then, they thought just because I'm from Texas, I'm a Republican!"

 

The GOP might not take the House if Democrats, you know, run good campaigns and get voters to turn out. They have a shitty hand, but so what. The fatalism from some (I know this isn’t you, hondo) is getting on my nerves.

Also the idea that a pot-smoking boomer who looks like he stole his outfits from Jerry Garcia’s closet is a liberal… yeah, not surprised.

 

Held responsible by whom?

 

Our nation has gone too far left

 

His new district was Biden +9 in 2020. He’s toast.

 

Apologies if this is a d_b, but DOJ just got a big fish into the boat.

In the days before Christmas, U.S. officials in Boston unveiled insider trading charges against a Russian tech tycoon they had been pursuing for months. They accused Vladislav Klyushin, who’d been extradited from Switzerland on Dec. 18, of illegally making tens of millions of dollars trading on hacked corporate-earnings information.

Yet as authorities laid out their securities fraud case, a striking portrait of the detainee emerged: Klyushin was not only an accused insider trader, but a Kremlin insider. He ran an information technology company that works with the Russian government’s top echelons. Just 18 months earlier, Klyushin received a medal of honor from Russian President Vladimir Putin. The U.S. had, in its custody, the highest-level Kremlin insider handed to U.S. law enforcement in recent memory.

Klyushin’s cybersecurity work and Kremlin ties could make him a useful source of information for U.S. officials, according to several people familiar with Russian intelligence matters. Most critically, these people said, if he chooses to cooperate, he could provide Americans with their closest view yet of 2016 election manipulation.

According to people in Moscow who are close to the Kremlin and security services, Russian intelligence has concluded that Klyushin, 41, has access to documents relating to a Russian campaign to hack Democratic Party servers during the 2016 U.S. election. These documents, they say, establish the hacking was led by a team in Russia’s GRU military intelligence that U.S. cybersecurity companies have dubbed “Fancy Bear” or APT28. Such a cache would provide the U.S. for the first time with detailed documentary evidence of the alleged Russian efforts to influence the election, according to these people.

Klyushin’s path to the U.S. — his flight from Moscow via private jet, his arrest in Switzerland, and his wait in jail as Russia and the U.S. competed to win his extradition — is described in U.S., European and Swiss legal filings, as well as in accounts of more than a half-dozen people with knowledge of the matter who requested anonymity to speak about Moscow’s efforts and its causes for concern.

According to these accounts, Klyushin was approached by U.S. and U.K. spy agencies in the two years before his exit from Russia and received heightened levels of security in Switzerland. He also missed a final chance to appeal his extradition, an omission that baffled many observers in Moscow. His transfer to the U.S. represents a serious intelligence blow to the Kremlin, several of the people said, one that would deepen if Klyushin decides to seek leniency from U.S. prosecutors by providing information about Moscow’s inner workings.

Three of the people added that they believe that Klyushin has access to secret records of other high-level GRU operations abroad. Russian military intelligence agents in recent years have been linked to a series of hacking attacks as well as the attempted chemical poisoning assassination of dissident ex-GRU colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the U.K. in 2018. Russia has denied involvement.​

I don’t think he “missed” a final chance to appeal his extradition. I think he decided this was his best option.

U.S. Catches Kremlin Insider Who May Have Secrets of 2016 Hack

 

Good. Much better if somebody put a bullet through his head, but whatever works.

And while you're at it, somebody go get Orban too.

Trump endorses Hungary’s Orbán for reelection

 

Of course

Archivist Says Trump’s Hiding Records to Avoid ‘Prison Time’