U.S. intelligence had Butina on its radar by spring 2015, in part because she left an overt trail of open-source intelligence documenting her contacts with major conservative figures at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the [[National Rifle Association]] and the libertarian Freedom Fest, starting in 2013. | U.S. intelligence had Butina on its radar by spring 2015, in part because she left an overt trail of open-source intelligence documenting her contacts with major conservative figures at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the [[National Rifle Association]] and the libertarian Freedom Fest, starting in 2013. |