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		saghm on April 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US sentences crypto expert to 5 years after North ... Does that matter? If someone tried to sell state secrets to another country and their buyer turned out to be a CIA agent undercover and the secrets were fake info planted for them to sell, they still likely will be prosecuted for treason despite all that.

rbanffy on April 14, 2022 [–]

Unless they faked the information themselves and, instead of conning the Russian government they conned the CIA.

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