Russian spy chief met U.S. officials in U.S. last week: sources

[h=1]Russian spy chief met U.S. officials in U.S. last week: sources[/h]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia’s foreign spy chief, who is under U.S. sanctions, met last week outside Washington with U.S. intelligence officials, two U.S. sources said, confirming a disclosure that intensified political infighting over probes into Moscow’s alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.
Sergey Naryshkin, head of the Russian service known by its acronym SVR, held talks with U.S. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and other U.S. intelligence officials, the sources said. The sources did not reveal the topics discussed.

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Sergey Naryshkin is barred from coming to the U.S. according to sanctions on him for his role in invading Crimea. So, how did he get in the country and meet with U.S. intelligence?

Moreover, Reuters learned about this, not from U.S. government sources, but from translating Russian press releases.

Am I the only one who finds this fishy?

But did he meet with Nancy Pelosi? Chuck Schumer? Kim Kardashian? That last one does smell fishy.

Absolutely not. He's on the list of people being barred per the sanctions.

MTAtech said:

Russian spy chief met U.S. officials in U.S. last week: sources


Sergey Naryshkin is barred from coming to the U.S. according to sanctions on him for his role in invading Crimea. So, how did he get in the country and meet with U.S. intelligence?

Moreover, Reuters learned about this, not from U.S. government sources, but from translating Russian press releases.

Am I the only one who finds this fishy?

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Yes, it sounds like liberals should be demanding that multiple people in the FBI and CIA should be fired and have their jobs eliminated for this spectacular failure. This failure justifies everything Trump has said about our intelligence communities. Naryshkin's entire trip was probably all-expenses paid by McCabe himself.

MTAtech said:

[h=1]Russian spy chief met U.S. officials in U.S. last week: sources[/h]
Sergey Naryshkin is barred from coming to the U.S. according to sanctions on him for his role in invading Crimea. So, how did he get in the country and meet with U.S. intelligence?

Moreover, Reuters learned about this, not from U.S. government sources, but from translating Russian press releases.

Am I the only one who finds this fishy?

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Hardly. Rachel Maddow is talking about it right now, and it wasn't just one spy chief from Russia, it was three. There should be other links to these reports tomorrow, but since the news came directly from Russian media and caught everyone in the US flatfooted, this is what I can find right now: https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-spy-chiefs-washington/29010324.html

...Russia’s ambassador to the United States had earlier confirmed that Sergei Naryshkin, the head of the foreign intelligence service SVR, was in Washington in recent days to meet with U.S. officials about terrorism and other matters.

But the presence of the two other chiefs -- Aleksandr Bortnikov, director of the Federal Security Service, or FSB; and Lieutenant General Igor Korobov, chief of Russian General Staff’s Main Intelligence Directorate, or GRU -- was not previously known.

The Washington Post said January 31 that Bortnikov and Korobov came to the U.S. capital last week, and that Bortnikov had met with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, as did Naryshkin.

It wasn’t clear whom Korobov may have met with....

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This is WTF scary, when this administration secretly sneaks in the heads of all Russian intelligence agencies, including one named individual who by law is not allowed in the US, and the only reason we know about it at all is because Russian media bragged about it.

Literally, this makes me nauseous.

DiAnna said:

Hardly. Rachel Maddow is talking about it right now, and it wasn't just one spy chief from Russia, it was three. There should be other links to these reports tomorrow, but since the news came directly from Russian media and caught everyone in the US flatfooted, this is what I can find right now: https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-spy-chiefs-washington/29010324.html



This is WTF scary, when this administration secretly sneaks in the heads of all Russian intelligence agencies, including one named individual who by law is not allowed in the US, and the only reason we know about it at all is because Russian media bragged about it.

Literally, this makes me nauseous.

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So why is Trump so far up the butt of the Russians and why are the Republicans in Congress more than happy to shine their flashlights up that passage so Trump can burrow even deeper?

reinoe said:

Yes, it sounds like liberals should be demanding that multiple people in the FBI and CIA should be fired and have their jobs eliminated for this spectacular failure. This failure justifies everything Trump has said about our intelligence communities. Naryshkin's entire trip was probably all-expenses paid by McCabe himself.

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Ahem, the Russians met with White House officials who won't say what they spoke about.

The failed narrative that the FBI and CIA are doing something wrong by actually investigating criminal activity, is as stupid as it sounds.

haymarket said:

So why is Trump so far up the butt of the Russians and why are the Republicans in Congress more than happy to shine their flashlights up that passage so Trump can burrow even deeper?

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Ask Hope Hicks.

haymarket said:

So why is Trump so far up the butt of the Russians and why are the Republicans in Congress more than happy to shine their flashlights up that passage so Trump can burrow even deeper?

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If/when we know that, we might have the why for a bunch of stuff, lately.

DiAnna said:

Hardly. Rachel Maddow is talking about it right now, and it wasn't just one spy chief from Russia, it was three. There should be other links to these reports tomorrow, but since the news came directly from Russian media and caught everyone in the US flatfooted, this is what I can find right now: https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-spy-chiefs-washington/29010324.html



This is WTF scary, when this administration secretly sneaks in the heads of all Russian intelligence agencies, including one named individual who by law is not allowed in the US, and the only reason we know about it at all is because Russian media bragged about it.

Literally, this makes me nauseous.

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Considering they met with intel officials and not trump, and the intel community being at odds with trump, I can make two big guesses, either one they are plotting something big in shadowy govt style especially since us media had no idea it happened, or b which I feel it most likely, those russian intel guys had something us intel wanted, and were willing to break the law to get it. What intel the russians would have american intel agencies absolutely needed would be unknown, or for all we know they promised proof of the location of all isis leaders or proof of trump russia collusion but when they got there started talking about adoptions.

beerftw said:

Considering they met with intel officials and not trump, and the intel community being at odds with trump, I can make two big guesses, either one they are plotting something big in shadowy govt style especially since us media had no idea it happened, or b which I feel it most likely, those russian intel guys had something us intel wanted, and were willing to break the law to get it. What intel the russians would have american intel agencies absolutely needed would be unknown, or for all we know they promised proof of the location of all isis leaders or proof of trump russia collusion but when they got there started talking about adoptions.

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Please reread the article. They did not meet with DOJ, FBI or CIA officials; they met in secret with Trump's Cabinet Members, Coates and Pompeio. Cabinet members are part of Trump's administration, and by rote members of the WH, and Narishkin could have only entered the US with a special green light from the Sec'y of State. The State Dept. refuses comment, and all of this was done secretly. The only reason Americans found out about it is because Russian media announced it.

BTW, this is being done the very week that by law, congressional sanctions on Russia are supposed to go into effect.

DiAnna said:

Please reread the article. They did not meet with DOJ, FBI or CIA officials; they met in secret with Trump's Cabinet Members, Coates and Pompeio. Cabinet members are part of Trump's administration, and by rote members of the WH, and Narishkin could have only entered the US with a special green light from the Sec'y of State. The State Dept. refuses comment, and all of this was done secretly. The only reason Americans found out about it is because Russian media announced it.

BTW, this is being done the very week that by law, congressional sanctions on Russia are supposed to go into effect.

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That is the director of the cia and the dni, those are both heads of intelligence, so my post was correct, unless you want to deligate heads of intelligence to trump, which does not fly with pompeo since pompeo has been butting heads with trump over russia for quite a while.

Like I said my best guess is they had something of value or claimed they had something of value, something worthy enough to break the law over. I would imagine if there was a massive terrorist plot against a us city or turkey planning to attack us troops in syria or something and russia knew the cia and dni would bend over backwards to get that info.

Less likely either guy would be pulling some stunts, as the fbi and doj are already under the crosshairs for corruption, and let's say you believe trump colluded with russia, why would trump allow the cia to do such, the second anything was caught if the accusations held true pompeo and coates would be thrown under the bus. I doubt they would be stupid enough, they both head intelligence agencies, and likely have some reasoning behind their action, plus if it was some secret plot, I would imagine they would have demanded russia kept their medias mouths shut, which obviously did not happen.

MTAtech said:

Ahem, the Russians met with White House officials who won't say what they spoke about.

The failed narrative that the FBI and CIA are doing something wrong by actually investigating criminal activity, is as stupid as it sounds.

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How did Naryishken get the documents required to get into the United States? Which group failed? The CIA for allowing him into the country in the first place or the FBI for allowing him to traverse all throughout the U.S. unchecked?

reinoe said:

How did Naryishken get the documents required to get into the United States? Which group failed? The CIA for allowing him into the country in the first place or the FBI for allowing him to traverse all throughout the U.S. unchecked?

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He could have gotten Tillerson himself to make the exception. That's a power of the Secy of State.

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