[IH8Rice]

woops.

The FBI has arrested 10 people for allegedly serving for years as secret agents of Russia's intelligence organ, the SVR, with the goal of penetrating U.S. government policymaking circles.
According to court papers unsealed Monday, the FBI intercepted a message from SVR headquarters, Moscow Center, to two of the defendants describing their main mission as "to search and develop ties in policymaking circles in US." Intercepted messages showed they were asked to learn about a broad swath of topics including nuclear weapons, U.S. arms control positions, Iran, White House rumors, CIA leadership turnover, the last presidential election, the Congress and political parties.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_doj_russia_arrests

 

[Pesqueeb]

"Show some balls, man!"
"I think it's too late to try and impress them."


I love that movie.

 

[amishmatt]

Paging MMike. "In Soviet Russia..."

 

[profro]

My favorite quotes...

"Doctor. Doctor. Doctor. Doctor. Doctor. Doctor. Doctor. Doctor. Doctor..." etc.

and

"I am probing for muscle structure and skeletal girth. We mock what we do not know"

 

[I Are Baboon]

Begin radical vertical impact simulation...now.

 

[profro]

Won't you gentlemen have a Pepsi?

 

[I Are Baboon]

Every minute you don't tell us why you are here, I cut off a finger.

Mine or yours?

 

[IH8Rice]

so how bout them spies?

 

[BurlyShirley]

What I want to know is... why in the hell do we still pay sketch artists to portay courtroom scenes? Talk about government waste..

Can somebody not just snap a picture on a digital camera?

 

[IH8Rice]

What I want to know is... why in the hell do we still pay sketch artists to portay courtroom scenes? Talk about government waste..

Can somebody not just snap a picture on a digital camera?

cameras usually arent allowed in the courtroom unless the judge allows it.

 

[Pesqueeb]

There was a story on NPR this morning about this that I of course can't find now, but apparently the "suspects" are only being charged with money laundering and failure to register as a foreign national or some such thing. Espionage charges were not filed because there was no actual "espionage" or state secrets involved. Apparently the "mission" was to become involved with policy makers and try to shape US policy. No actual “spying” per-se was involved.

Doctor.

 

[IH8Rice]

Apparently the "mission" was to become involved with policy makers and try to shape US policy. No actual “spying” per-se was involved.

the original article said that is what they were trying to do, but if we did that in Mother Russia, our people would be shot

 

[BurlyShirley]

cameras usually arent allowed in the courtroom unless the judge allows it.

That's what Im getting at.... WTF is the difference between a picture and an illustration? Why is one allowed and the other not? Makes no sense.

 

[IH8Rice]

were they going to acknowledge they had spies in the US?

Moscow angrily rejected U.S. accusations on Tuesday that Washington had cracked an undercover Russian spy ring, and said the Cold War-style cloak and dagger saga seemed timed to wreck a recent thaw in relations.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said U.S. police had gone "out of control" after 10 suspected spies were arrested in the United States in the biggest espionage case for years.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100629/ts_nm/us_russia_usa_spies

 

[fatnslow]

Money quote: Jessie Gugig, 15, said she could not believe the charges, especially against Mrs. Murphy. “They couldn’t have been spies,” she said jokingly. “Look what she did with the hydrangeas.”

 

[X3pilot]

That's what Im getting at.... WTF is the difference between a picture and an illustration? Why is one allowed and the other not? Makes no sense.

Cameras steal your soul??

What's the difference between magic and illusion?

a picture says a thousand words, but in the courtroom, it's that lady talking into her mouth tube and punding the four key typewriter..

Ok, I'll stop...