the fbi. by then i had tried many cases with the bureau, but nothing like this, and it brought me to close contact with dozens of agents working long hours to pair for trial. they spent countless hours walking me through the details of their investigative process, explaining how the effort to ensure mueller fitted into a larger pattern of russian trade traffic. i can t understand how the kremlin exploits the most basic human vulnerabilities. praying on those who feel unappreciated and residential, who are fixated on money and success, who have a history of dishonesty and are prone to infidelity. one aspect of russian craig craft involves luring in a potential target base taking an incremental commoditizes that will eventually ensnare the victim. in miller s case that we can with clandestine meetings with svetlana against the explicit warning of a supervisor, enough to get mueller disciplined if he was kind. then sex with her, a firing offense, then small amounts of
we were hearing the subhuman and horrific conditions this woman and young girl were kept in. what can you tell us about the victims? the victims in this case one of the most disturbing things about this is that the people who were charged preyed an their human vulnerabilities, their physical disability and preyed on a mother s love for her child as a way of manipulating the victim to force her, among other ways, forcing her assaults, depriving her of food, treating her worse than the animals in the house to basically try to rob her of her human dignity. what do we know about how they ended up in this situation? well, there s not a lot in the public record about how it started other than that they were sort of lured into this situation and you know, i ve done these cases for 20 years and one thing i ve discovered over the time is that the people who do these crimes are good at targeting people with vulnerabilities, whether it s somebody who doesn t speak the
other side is completely disabled by human vulnerabilities. but they re not, everybody is just screwing up all the time, they re trying, but screwing up. that is the strength, we re not very good planners. i almost feel bad for the chinese hackers. their junior analysts sitting in the basement, tasked with looking at the boring e-mails from every low-ranking think tank, trying to learn what matters, get the connections to unlock the code. but they re missing our actual real strength. the real reason that washington fails day to day, but reacts, we don t stick to plans, that way when it all falls apart as it always does and will, that way when it all falls party, we re still okay. there is a good coming up next, a good chance the text messages on the smartphone of fbi agents are sexier than the