Russiagate

[David Morris]

<https://mobile.twitter.com/chessninja>
>From Mig Greengard:

At some point early on, Klyushin knew he’d be dead meat if he went back to
Russia. Now, which innocent American bystander will Putin kidnap in
retaliation and to try to set up an exchange?

I’m glad that report pointed out the Kremlin trick of immediately making up
their own charges against Russians who are arrested abroad and then
demanding their extradition. Another way the lawless abuse the rule of law
elsewhere.


On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 9:44 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> https://mobile.twitter.com/juliaioffe/status/1478074284551684097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1478074284551684097%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.balloon-juice.com%2F
>
> When Russiagate was raging and
> @IcarusNetflix <https://mobile.twitter.com/IcarusNetflix>
> dropped in 2017, I remember watching it and thinking: the only way we'll
> really ever know what the Russians did in 2016 is if someone defects and
> tells us. I wonder if this is that moment.
>
>
> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-03/kremlin-insider-klyushin-is-said-to-have-2016-hack-details?utm_medium=social&utm_content=business&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic
>
> IT executive Vladislav Klyushin’s journey into U.S. custody is a blow to
> the Kremlin, say people familiar with a Russian intelligence assessment of
> what he may have to offer.
>
> The U.S. has, in its custody, the highest-level Kremlin insider handed to
> U.S. law enforcement in recent memory.
>
> Klyushin’s cybersecurity work and Kremlin ties could make him a useful
> source of information for U.S. officials, according to several people
> familiar with Russian intelligence matters. Most critically, these people
> said, if he chooses to cooperate, he could provide Americans with their
> closest view yet of 2016 election manipulation.
>
> According to people in Moscow who are close to the Kremlin and security
> services, Russian intelligence has concluded that Klyushin, 41, has access
> to documents relating to a Russian campaign to hack Democratic Party
> servers during the 2016 U.S. election. These documents, they say, establish
> the hacking was led by a team in Russia’s GRU military intelligence that
> U.S. cybersecurity companies have dubbed “Fancy Bear” or APT28. Such a
> cache would provide the U.S. for the first time with detailed documentary
> evidence of the alleged Russian efforts to influence the election,
> according to these people.
>
> Klyushin’s path to the U.S. — his flight from Moscow via private jet, his
> arrest in Switzerland, and his wait in jail as Russia and the U.S. competed
> to win his extradition — is described in U.S., European and Swiss legal
> filings, as well as in accounts of more than a half-dozen people with
> knowledge of the matter who requested anonymity to speak about Moscow’s
> efforts and its causes for concern.
>