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Government into positions of power in your targeted country, luck essentially bring down that country's government, rights. >> that country can fall before your intelligence operation. that's the worst case scenario if operations are ever so successful that they reach their highest objectives. the fbi now has a public facing website about the russian spy ring. they headline it operation ghost stories because that was the fbi code name for that investigation. they called it ghost stories because the spies used the identities of dead people to start building their legends in north america. the f...

It's not comforting that an active russian spy was making contact with and communicating with u.s. officials who were actively involved in nuclear weapons research in the united states. right? that's alarming. it is slightly less alarming when you learn that the fbi was watching them do it every step of the way for years while the spies will no idea the fbi was on to them. >> this is the counter intelligence part of the fbi at work. their job is to counter foreign intelligence operations inside the united states. in the donald heathfield and tracy leanne foley case you see that work unfolding ...

That's alarming. when you learn that the fbi. you see that work unfolding completely undetected with this incredible level of intrusive surveillance on these spies over the course of a decade. this must be incredibly hard to do without being found out, right? it's also unbelievably cinematic. this case of the russian illegals, this spy ring which was uncovered in 2010, it really is what led to the tv series "the americans." in real life in this case there was a side plot to donald heathfield and tracy leanne foley specifically because their sons who had been born in toronto in the '90s, those ...

Later with his daughter in a small town in england and poisoned by this incredibly potent means of poison. this seems like two people who have nothing to do with what we saw with serge ee skripal, nothing to do with any kind of spy ring or spy story or anything like that. it seems like this two individuals may just have come across this substance and it killed at least one of them. the other person is in critical condition. of course, this brings up a number of issues, the least of which on behalf of the uk government is how are you protecting your citizens if russia is carrying out these real...

The fbi was right to start looking into it. >> tucker: wait, wait, they were. so they already knew that the documents that you attempted to make sound sinister amounted to nothing, carter page was not spying for the russian government, he was not a mole. they knew that. they knew that. and yet, they got a fisa warrant against him already. don't you think that the u.s. government spies on its own citizens, ought to have a good reason? and that that reason shouldn't be made up by a political activist like peter strzok or his girlfriend lisa page. >> so the fact that he had been communicating wit...