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By Remember this particular bit of journalistic malpractice?
Funny thing about that!
The FBI’s former top spy hunter in New York was charged Monday with taking secret cash payments of more than $225,000 while overseeing highly sensitive cases, and breaking the law by trying to get Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska removed from a U.S. sanctions list — accusations that shocked the cloistered world of his fellow high-ranking intelligence officials.
Charles McGonigal, 54, who retired from the FBI in September 2018, was indicted in federal court in Manhattan on charges of money laundering, violating U.S. sanctions and other counts stemming from his alleged ties to Deripaska, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. In his role at the FBI, McGonigal had been tasked with investigating Deripaska, whose own indictment on sanctions-violation charges was unsealed in September.
A second indictment, filed in Washington, accused McGonigal of hiding payments totaling $225,000 that he allegedly received from a New Jersey man employed decades ago by an Albanian intelligence agency. The indictment also accused him of acting to advance that person’s interests.
I would estimate the chances that McGonigal himself was the key source for the Times at roughly 100%. The Times then printed what he was telling them as fact, even though the story included assertions like “the hacked Podesta emails that were leaked hours after the Access Hollywood tape was released were not intended to help elect Donald Trump.” Tremendous work, particularly after another weekend of full-press EMAILS coverage.
….I miss Reid so much:
Former U.S. Senator Harry Reid’s (D-NV) letter to former FBI Director James Comey:
“…You possess explosive information about close ties between Donald Trump and the Russian government…”
– October 30, 2016.https://t.co/XMl7b2Rn1P pic.twitter.com/S6pIeyxx4X— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) January 23, 2023