GOP Russian style spy case busted

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/theweek...-adviser%3famp

Ex-British spy, Erik Prince, and Project Veritas reportedly tried to entrap Trump's national security adviser

PETER WEBER
MAY 14, 2021
Erik Prince, founder of private security contractor Blackwater and brother of former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, recruited a former British spy in 2016 to professionalize the undercover operatives at Project Veritas, the conservative sting video shop run by James O'Keefe, The New York Times reports, citing documents and people involved in the subsequent operations to discredit perceived "deep state" enemies of former President Donald Trump inside the U.S. government.

The ex-undercover British spy, Richard Seddon, trained conservative operatives first at the Prince family ranch in Wyoming, then at a large, $10,000-a-month house near Georgetown University. Female undercover operatives tried to entrap FBI agents, sometimes using fake dating app profiles, and State Department employees, the Times reports. But "one of the most brazen operations of the campaign" was an attempt to take down H.R. McMaster, Trump's second national security adviser.



The plan was reportedly to send a female operative to Tosca, a restaurant McMaster frequented, to engage him in drinks and conversation and record him disparaging Trump or making other inappropriate remarks on camera. One of the people involved in the McMaster plot was Barbara Ledeen, a longtime Republican staffer on the Senate Judiciary Committee before retiring, she says, earlier this year. Presented with the details of the operation, Ledeen told the Times she was just a messenger, "not part of a plot."

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Dirty dirty dirty dirty dirty Party



The Republican voters have been had



How many will have the integrity to admit it

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The end for the Republican Party is coming

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usa...amp/2275741002


Don’t forget Butina and her Russian backed program of infiltration

[Poor Richard Saunders]

The New York Times
They Seemed Like Democratic Activists. They Were Secretly Conservative Spies.
Mark Mazzetti and Adam Goldman
June 25, 2021, 5:18 am
The Old Wilson Schoolhouse, where Sofia LaRocca and Beau Maier worked at a Democratic Party fundraiser in August 2019 near Jackson Hole, Wyo., June 23, 2021. (Ryan Dorgan/The New York Times)
The Old Wilson Schoolhouse, where Sofia LaRocca and Beau Maier worked at a Democratic Party fundraiser in August 2019 near Jackson Hole, Wyo., June 23, 2021. (Ryan Dorgan/The New York Times)
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The young couple posing in front of the faux Eiffel Tower at the Paris hotel in Las Vegas fit right in, two people in a sea of idealistic Democrats who had arrived in the city in February 2020 for a Democratic primary debate.

Large donations to the Democratic National Committee — $10,000 each — had bought Beau Maier and Sofia LaRocca tickets to the debate. During a cocktail reception beforehand, they worked the room of party officials, rainbow donkey pins affixed to their lapels.


In fact, much about them was a lie. Maier and LaRocca were part of an undercover operation by conservatives to infiltrate progressive groups, political campaigns and the offices of Democratic as well as moderate Republican elected officials during the 2020 election cycle, according to interviews and documents.

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Using large campaign donations and cover stories, the operatives aimed to gather dirt that could sabotage the reputations of people and organizations considered threats to a hard-right agenda advanced by former President Donald Trump.


At the center of the scheme was an unusual cast: a former British spy connected to security contractor Erik Prince, a wealthy heiress to the Gore-Tex fortune and undercover operatives like Maier and LaRocca who used Wyoming as a base to insinuate themselves into the political fabric there and in at least two other states, Colorado and Arizona.

In more than two dozen interviews and a review of federal election records, The New York Times reconstructed many of the operatives’ interactions in Wyoming and other states — mapping out their associations and likely targets — and spoke to people with whom they discussed details of their spying operation. Publicly available documents in Wyoming also tied Maier and LaRocca to an address in Cody, Wyoming, used by former spy Richard Seddon.

The question is raised in the story but not answered as to where the money came from that the couple donated. If it was not their money but was given to them by a third party then the contribution would have been a federal crime. It will be interesting to see if this is pursued by law enforcement.

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There are several key figures in the effort:
Beau Maier and Sofia LaRocca – the duo responsible for gaining the trust of political candidates and accessing their offices and campaigns. Both attended fundraisers and political meetings; LaRocca was even hired by political organizations.
Ricard Seddon – A former British spy with a Cody address and ties to Wapiti resident Erik Prince
Susan Gore – A wealthy Wyoming heiress and conservative donor who funded the insinuation effort

You can bet this scum will be outing a lot of others

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The question is raised in the story but not answered as to where the money came from that the couple donated. If it was not their money but was given to them by a third party then the contribution would have been a federal crime. It will be interesting to see if this is pursued by law enforcement.

Lots of dirty Republican hands will be outed

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usa...amp/2275741002


Don’t forget Butina and her Russian backed program of infiltration

It’s a Republican pattern


No Barr in place to save the criminal Republican party

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Republicans just keep getting caught faking identities and faking ground support for their evil

[Poor Richard Saunders]

Lots of dirty Republican hands will be outed

It comes down to whether it is considered important enough for law enforcement to pursue.

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Send the ones connected to these crimes to prison

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NEW YORK TIMES UNCOVERS WYOMING-BASED EFFORT TO SABOTAGE POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS
WRITTEN BY ANDREW-ROSSI ON JUNE 25, 2021

Actually the entire GQP/GOP or so-called republican party should be busted and incriminated as spies for foreign enemies of America.

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Actually the entire GQP/GOP or so-called republican party should be busted and incriminated as spies for foreign enemies of America.

Been going on for a while, teabaggers (www.teaparty.org) and Russia.

July 4 2018

Eight GOP lawmakers spend America’s Independence Day in Moscow.

Senators Richard Shelby, Steve Daines, John Hoeven, Ron Johnson, John Kennedy, Jerry Moran, John Thune, and Rep. Kay Granger tell U.S. media that their trip is to be tough on Russia in regards to election meddling.

In Moscow, though, the lawmakers stress that they’re only there to “strive for a better relationship” with our enemy and not “accuse Russia of this or that or so forth.”

Duma member Vyacheslav Nikonov said on Tuesday that he’s met with many American lawmakers before, but this week’s meeting “was one of the easiest ones in my life.”

Russian media even pokes fun at the senators for behaving like lapdogs to Russia after promising to represent U.S. interests back home.