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Cicada

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3. She enjoys her life here, knows she would be swapped.

Reply to donkeypoofed (Original post)

Fri Jul 20, 2018, 10:36 AM

Jul 2018

Anna Chapman was in custody only a couple weeks and returned a hero. Maria will also be treated like the hero she is to Russia. She achieved a great deal.

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Why did Maria Butina not flee the U.S. back in April ? [View all] donkeypoofed Jul 2018 OP

Had to count her guns. Sneederbunk Jul 2018 #1

Arrogance nt Xipe Totec Jul 2018 #2

She enjoys her life here, knows she would be swapped. Cicada Jul 2018 #3

Spot on. OnDoutside Jul 2018 #13

Trump will get her out dalton99a Jul 2018 #4

she felt "untouchable" is my first guess, way most entitled people do. beachbum bob Jul 2018 #5

They were probably tailing her the whole time anyway. marylandblue Jul 2018 #6

She was a pretty incompetent spy PatSeg Jul 2018 #7

Jack Barsky, a real Soviet spy, said she was amateur but extremely effective Cicada Jul 2018 #16

That is fascinating PatSeg Jul 2018 #18

She was probably ordered not to Lee-Lee Jul 2018 #8

I Thought the Same Thing Leith Jul 2018 #11

And the more her trial stays public the more diassry they sew here Lee-Lee Jul 2018 #14

Guessing not probably but definitely ordered to remain Hortensis Jul 2018 #17

She thought the GOP and NRA had her back. Thomas Hurt Jul 2018 #9

Time in a U.S. jail is what she agreed to pay when she left her job in Siberia to be a honeypot. haele Jul 2018 #10

Counting on the Pardon Fairy? n/t moondust Jul 2018 #12

Double agent fishing for bigger fish? floppyboo Jul 2018 #15