Maria Butina
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Maria Butina is a Russian gun-rights activist convicted in the United States of failing to register as a foreign agent. John Kiriakou says Butina founded a small Russian gun club, akin to a miniature version of the NRA, and reached out to the American NRA to build ties after moving to the United States for graduate school. He says he has spoken with her a number of times and is Facebook friends with her. She was arrested and charged with failure to register as a foreign agent, which Kiriakou characterizes as a "process crime" rather than genuine espionage. Kiriakou notes that Butina, a first-time offender for whom federal sentencing guidelines called for zero to six months, instead received 18 months in solitary confinement, and that the United Nations deems any solitary confinement lasting more than two weeks to be a form of torture.

See also

- AIPAC
- Jonathan Pollard
