(06-29-2010, 11:17 PM)MEAT Wrote: Do you think these Russian spies were told to "live together" to act like a typical married couple, and over time ended up having children because they started to have feelings for one another, or do you think they were told to have children together to establish a more believable back-story? Pretty disturbing stuff if the latter.
What do you think will happen to the children of these Russian spies? Technically, are they American if they they were born in the US and both of their parents were her illegally? Will the US keep them, or give them to the terrible Russian orphanages? All tragic situations, I'm sure. The parents should have taken this into consideration before having children and living the life of a spy, unless their government "made them" do it.
On the surface, what the news media's have let out does not seem too damaging (State Department Downplays Damage of Russian Spy Case), but they don't explain what tipped the FBI off into investigating these individuals in the first place. It must not have been good. Seems pretty risky to be running this cat-and-mouse game with Russia and the US so close to finally becoming "friends" again. I mean, something like this could be considered an act of war, especially if the data stolen was sensitive or classified. Well, I hope it does not damage US-Russia relations too much. I'm sure every country has their spies, even the US; it's all rather you get caught or not, or better yet, if they payoff is potentially better than the risk of getting caught, which in this case, seems like it wasn't.
When you are a russian spy, you are a spy first and a parent second. Whether you want it or not.
Or else.
Just in case you think I'm kidding, don't.