It seems to me like Russia and the US play games for the public with their spies. As if Obama and Putin were allies, and all this stuff is just lies.

s&f though

She probably wanted to sell them for a profit in Russia.

Not everyone looking to make a buck selling high tech stuff is a spy.
Try telling that to the Feds though.

One chick gets busted for moving a couple pairs of night vision goggles, and this makes headlines?

But not one peep or investigative report about the hundreds of arms dealers moving guns & ammo to hot spots all over the planet?

Yeah, got it. This story has a hot chick in it, so people click.

We're screwn.

This reminds me of how the Orthadox Jews (the guys with the funny sideburns, who dress sort of like the Amish) were busted in a massive MDMA (ecstacy) smuggling ring into the US. It was estimated that most of America's ecstacy was being smuggled in by the Orthadox Jews. The main point here, is that nobody is beyond doing the unexpected.

--airspoon

Originally posted by airspoon
This reminds me of how the Orthadox Jews (the guys with the funny sideburns, who dress sort of like the Amish) were busted in a massive MDMA (ecstacy) smuggling ring into the US. It was estimated that most of America's ecstacy was being smuggled in by the Orthadox Jews. The main point here, is that nobody is beyond doing the unexpected.

--airspoon

"Unexpected"?
You dont quite understand the extent that some will go to to destroy a competing belief system that they find insults or compete with them.
"Russian" mafia? THere is an even better and more accurate descriptor than 'russian' if you do the work and look into it. Curious how cultures arising out of desolate areas have integrated unapopogetic overt or covert subjugation of others by any means necessary into the very center of their belief systems.
Curious how human trafficing, drug smuggling, technologic espionage and theft seem to all go through the very country claiming to be americas extraspecial best friend. Funny how concern for ones own has been labeled as an irrational hate for someone else who has no problem with their own chauvanism. Countries and cultures exist for their own benefit, except of course the USA which has to beg permission and pay tribute to anyone with a competing claim.

"She bought them legally. They are available for purchase on the Internet, you just need a license to export them," Palmer said.

"They were for her husband's buddies who are hunters in Russia," he said. "They were basically buying something in the U.S. that's available in Russia but is extremely expensive."

If the russian government wanted to know how to make them, they could have sent a technical spy to the US to take them apart, diagram them, and travel with digital plans back to mother russia.

It seems to me, she's just a rich jewish girl buying fancy hunting equipment for her husbands rich buddies.

I really don't see the big deal; except that she broke the "letter of the law" and is being made an example in our police state.

Sri Oracle

Interesting, but what's the relevance to her being Jewish? Does it make the crime more severe?

some thing is weird here
Hunting gear isn't something the average girl does on her own, and real hunters are usually very aware of laws and rules because penalties are severe, even for the slightest infraction.

I some how think she was set up.

Originally posted by Mdv2
Interesting, but what's the relevance to her being Jewish? Does it make the crime more severe?

What is the relevance? The same as any ally. People have a responsibility to represent for their chosen group. Somehow Americans have become benefactor to another country that provides nothing in return, save getting the US into a family fight with no good resolution.People have been literally brainwashed to think that a seperate exixting state, with a distinct religion culture and imperitive has anything but it's own survival in mind and will do anything to get er done.
Americans dont have any remotely realistic idea of the massive unreconsileable degree of disgust with a belief system that claims as its basis that jews were too stupid to identify their own messiah. If you were to get it, you would know what the required repair would be, but you dont allow youreslf to go there, do you?
Just imagine if there were a possibility/situation to get complete revenge and wipe the slate clean and make a few bucks at the same time...

What a joke! The media seems like they're hard up for stories. Just more bogus B.S. from the MSM.

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Relax? Upset? What qualifies you to put words in my mouth or suggest invalid interpretation of my behavior?

Is someone upset? Perhaps I can render some aid...?

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