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Showing Original Post only (View all)Could Putin have planted child porn to blackmail Trump? [View all]
Just throwing that out there - that would be the one thing that would be the deal breaker with his disciples...
Foes of Russia Say Child Pornography Is Planted to Ruin Them
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In April last year, the veteran Soviet dissident, a onetime confidant of Margaret Thatcher, finally found out what was going on: The Crown Prosecution Service announced that he faced five charges of making indecent images of children, five charges of possession of indecent images of children and one charge of possession of a prohibited image.
The case was supposed to go to court in May in Cambridge but, after Mr. Bukovsky, 73, entered a not-guilty plea it was delayed until Dec. 12. This followed a prosecution request for more time to review an independent forensic report on what had been found on Mr. Bukovskys computers and how an unidentified third party had probably put it there.
The whole affair is Kafkaesque, Mr. Bukovsky said in an interview. You not only have to prove you are not guilty but that you are innocent. He insisted that he was the victim of a new and particularly noxious form of an old K.G.B. dirty trick known as kompromat, the fabrication and planting of compromising or illegal material.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/world/europe/vladimir-putin-russia-fake-news-hacking-cybersecurity.html
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