Posted on 07/08/2010 10:20:46 AM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
It is no wonder Russia is hurrying to complete the spy-swap the Obama administration is offering. This is no swap. US will be handing over spies and Putin will be sending here his political prisoners.
Igor Sutyagin is no spy. In 1999 he was a researcher for the USA Canada Institute. The Russian Federal Security Service (the former KGB) has claimed that Mr. Sutyagin violated a secret Ministry of Defense decree on secrecy. He was preparing a research for a private firm on the Russian economy. According to Human Rights Watch 2004 report:
A worrying change since Putin’s reelection is the case of arms researcher Igor Sutyagin. As of April 2004, Sutyagin had spent over four year in detention while his case has been investigated and tried. That month, after a trial marred by violations of fair trial standards, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison, the longest prison term for high treason since Soviet times.... Amnesty International claims that during the trials Sutyagin insisted the information he gathered for research for a private British consulting firm was from open sources. He was acquitted by lower court, but convicted by the Russian Highest Court. According to Amnesty International the prosecution of Sutyagin was politically motivated.
It looks like President Obama will be swapping Russian spies for Russian political prisoners. We are glad that those people will be out of the hell holes where Putin let them rot for years. However, calling Sutyagin a spy is way out of line. Looks like the Obama administration will be doing again PR for Russia, agreeing to pretend that a Russian scientist who was a KGB political prisoner for 10 years is a US spy.
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Still, if you’re going to do a trade, he looks like a good trade.
They are certainly in a hurry to get this done. Shouldn’t there be a full investigation and find out just who their contacts are?
But that of course could lead back to a few communists in the White House, couldn’t it?
for us to participate in a “spy swap” would be to admit that we have spies . . . which strikes me as a bit unwise. oh, wait, that’s right. it’s obama. he is just admitting that george bush had spies. he is “reforming a broken system”, “restoring our standing in the world”, and “hitting the reset button”.
The list, ping
Spy, political prisoner, who cares? He’s still worth more than the scumbags we’re sending to the Sov, er, Russkis and we should be be glad to get him.
Its not like we execute spies, anymore.
double agent?
The man was accused in 1999 - during Clinton. It makes no sense to call political prisoners - US spies. US has responsibility for our spies - Putin has responsibility for the KGB prisoners.
I am sure there has been. I wish that people would leave all of this conspiracy talk behind because we do have professional in the intelligence business who are not connected to the White House. Also, there is a lot stuff that goes on that we don’t know about and we cannot.
I don’t like 0bummer, didn’t vote for him (never will), didn’t stay home in 2008, but most of this conspiracy talk is baseless and is turning FR in abovetopsecret.
Who knows. I just think that they are making him a devil's bargain. In accepting his freedom under these circumstances he is admitting in effect that he was a spy.
I'm sure after ten years in the slammer he'd cop to anything if it gets him out.
NO DEAL...NO DEAL....NO DEAL....
We need to tear up the pea patch first.
Conspiracy theories are necessary when the obvious is unacceptable.
But the undeniably fact is, that there are communists in the White House. Their existence amounts to a conspiracy against the United States, no theory is necessary.
How can it not be possible then, that they would impair an investigation of communist agents? Any decision to swap spies would have to come from the highest level.
Any decision to swap spies would have to come from the highest level.
Absolutely!
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