Maria Butina, a Russian gun-rights activist who pleaded guilty to acting as an unregistered Russian agent, has broken her silence to deny she’s a spy. “Truth is my best defender here,” Butina told author James Bamford for The New Republic in clips that were shared with ABC News and CNN. If she was really a spy, she said, she would have kept her private life secret. “I would be invisible Russian spy,” she said. I mean, I would be the most unseen person on Earth.”

Source: Huffington Post February 12, 2019 14:03 UTC