29 June 2010

Russian Spy Scandal Update


Naivety of Obama's Pollyanna World View Laid Bare 
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Typically -rather than to fess-up when Russian spies are caught red handed- the Kremlin is actually playing-the-victim... never any lack of chutzpah from Moscow, and clearly they've nothing but contempt for ultra-useful idiot Obama:
The Russian Foreign Ministry said the arrests by the FBI were “deplorable” at a time when the two countries’ leaders were trying to improve relations.

The defendants are accused of being so-called “illegals”, working for the Russian foreign secret service under false identities to penetrate US government policy-making circles.
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It is alleged that they were tasked with gleaning intelligence on nuclear weapons, foreign policy and Congressional politics.

The scandal comes just days after a bilateral summit between President Dmitry Medvedev and US President Barack Obama that was designed to underscore warming ties between the two Cold War adversaries.

In a statement, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said: “Such actions are baseless and improper.

“It is highly deplorable that all of this is happening against the background of the reset in Russia-US ties announced by the US administration itself.”
And it's hardly an isolated case... 
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Farbiarz called the eleven charged yesterday "the tip of the iceberg."  
Each of the 10 Russian spies arraigned (one suspect remains at-large) was charged with conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. attorney general, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison upon conviction. 

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Two criminal complaints against the Russian spies outlining the charges were filed in U.S. District Court for the southern district of New York.