At least Boris won’t leap to their defence.
Police call on people to report suspicious activities after intelligence-linked Russians took photos in military restricted area
100-plus spies fired after NSA internal chat board used for kinky sex talk
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The messaging app in question is the NSA’s Intelink, a secure intranet service used by various American military and intelligence teams to share information, including top secret and classified threat intel.
Federal workers said to have been involved in the NSFW Intelink chatter included personnel at the NSA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and US Naval Intelligence.
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Except that it’s actually a purge of queer employees. And is part of defining queer lives as defacto objectionable material.
It’s always so handy, isn’t it.
Gulag 2.0: FSB wants its own pretrial detention centres
People accused of treason, espionage, extremism, and terrorism could soon end up in detention centres controlled by Russia’s secret service, the FSB. Human rights activists fear this will lead to restricted access for lawyers and weakened judicial oversight. Barents Observer called to the initiator of the bill, leader of the defence committee, Andrei Kartapolov.
For some reason or other, the onebox previews the Russian(?) version, but links to the English version:
No worries, though:
“Unlike Europe, we have an absolutely transparent judicial system and penal system. Therefore, everything will be transparent and controlled. Primarily by the legislative power. And by the courts. So don’t worry,” said Deputy Kartapolov.
(Ignore the weird sound in the background, that’s just some members of the Trump administration drooling over this.)