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I can imagine this going like this: 1. They extradite this guy to USA 2. Accuse him of hacking and offering him a plea and full protection if he says that Putin was the one who sponsored these attacks 3. Guy says whatever they want him to say 4. USA has now "solid" evidence that Putin hacked them
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Czech Republic, is supposedly a base of Russia espionage for European Union[1]. There are very close connections between our high-profile politics to people around Putin.[2] My guess is that he will be returned to Russia. I recommend to read the profile published by Guardian last year on Czech president Milos Zeman.[3] [1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/czechrepubl... [2] http://praguemonitor.com/20…
Anecdotally, my wife grew up in Prague and has said it is a favorite for Russian tourism, so it's probably fairly easy to enter the E.U. there.
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I'm still not clear on where you think this is going. He was arrested by the FBI, not rendered by the CIA. He's being charged with a crime. It's a crime that both the Czech Republic and the US have recognized as a crime for a long time.
> I'm still not clear on where you think this is going. Further political strife and possibly even all-out war, especially if warmer heads get elected. > He was arrested by the FBI, not rendered by the CIA. He's being charged with a crime. It's a crime that both the Czech Republic and the US have recognized as a crime for a long time. Is he going to be prosecuted in the Czech Republic and (if the prosecution is succe…
I can imagine this going like this: 1. They extradite this guy to USA 2. Accuse him of hacking and offering him a plea and full protection if he says that Putin was the one who sponsored these attacks 3. Guy says whatever they want him to say 4. USA has now "solid" evidence that Putin hacked them
That seems highly unlikely.
Czech Republic a member of European Union: Check! Czech Republic a NATO Ally: Check! Computer Crime Illegal In Czech Republic by Czech Law: Check! Computer Crime Illegal In European Union: Check! Bilateral Extradition Treaty Present Between US and Czech Republic: Check! European Union Recognizes Validity Of Bilateral Extradition Treaties With The US: Check! I am not clear on the basis of Russia's expectation that the…
Unfortunately, our (Czech) president is a big friend with Russia/China etc., he actively pulls strings in the background, so I wouldnt be surprised if this scenario would magically happen, somehow.
Now they have the choice between aggravating the US or Russia. Ahh, good old times...
> The Russian Embassy in Prague, however, called for the man to be released. > “We insist that the detained Russian citizen should be transferred to Russia,” Released or transferred to Russia? And why is the speculation from Janda there - he is no security expert? Where do the suggestions there is a link to DNC hack come from? He could easily be just running a botnet, blackmailing or a thousand other things... Really…
This sounds a lot like a thinly veiled attempt to dump a story about a state sponsored hacker being arrested and possibly extradited back to the US. All we've heard for weeks now is how a group of state sponsored Russian hackers were feeding DNC documents to Wikileaks. The lack of details and the Russian response just sounds fishy to me.
History has taught us that it is very hard to pull the truth out of Russian response. You have to observe what they are doing and not what they are saying.
So this by itself does not conclude anything. Also not the opposite, or nothing about the other state level actors.
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Where do you get those check marks from? There is not a single word in the article that has a proof of what he did. Imagine if Russia captured US citizen in Argentina saying he is American hacker who they think hacked Russian servers, I can imagine the outrage of the US and its European puppets. Also nytimes is incredibly biased against Russia, I would not trust a single word it says.
> Where do you get those check marks from? Do you want to dispute any of them? Do you believe the Czech Republic isn't an EU/NATO member, as asserted with the "check"s?