Wonder if Putin told Trump to build bugging devices into the new construction?

[intrepidity]

That would be sooo Putin, no? Could be the reason for such destruction.

Probably also tricks he learned from his buddy Jeffrey, how to surveil "friends".

[eppur_se_muova]

1. Russians once joked that a new hotel for foreigners in Moscow was made of 'microcrete' ....

50% concrete, 50% microphones

[yellow dahlia]

2. Of course.

Once a Krasnov, always a Krasnov.

[applegrove]

3. RCMP was looking for a new building in Ottawa

to occupy (or one of those intelligence agencies). They looked at the Nortel complex. There were Chinese bugs everywhere in the walls.

I immediately had the same feeling you did when I read about the construction of the ballroom and WH complex.

[leftieNanner]

4. Putin probably hired the contractor

Easy peasy

[ms liberty]

5. Russia and China will have ears all over that place, because these people are morans of the first order

They're so convinced of their own superiority that they don't listen to anyone else on anything. They're the experts.