Underpants assassin

[dyqik]

This story about Navalny getting his attempted assassin to confess over the phone is something. And followed up with a CNN reporter doorstepping another one of the assassins.

[Brightonian]

the FSB toxins team of about six to 10 agents trailed Navalny for more than three years.

I wonder if they were trying to find some way of poisoning just Navalny instead of a whole load of people, and at last they thought of his undies, being unlikely to get handled by other innocent people.

[jimbob]

The Russians don't seem to care about *plausible* deniability. But they do have useful idiots claiming it's all a false flag.

[AMS]

The Russians don't seem to care about *plausible* deniability. But they do have useful idiots claiming it's all a false flag.

The Russian Government hasn't cared about plausibility of their lies for some time. See also the Salisbury cathedral tourists or the "aid convoy" to Eastern Ukraine.

[Squeak]

It certainly says something about how closely the assassination secrets are held that one of the assassins agreed to talk about it on an unsecured line. That seems like *such* a no-brainer.

Also, how ice-cold is Navalny? Just a bit of gentle interrogation of the man who tried to kill you and landed you in ICU for a month.

Edit for swypoes.