[vetvetdoug]

Treason?

[Pontiac]

Obama to give oil-rich Alaskan (United States) islands, billions of barrels of oil, to Russia... The agreement was negotiated in total secrecy.

As I recall “agreements” between nations are called “Treaties” and treaties entered into by the United States must be ratified by the Senate in order to be valid and enforceable.

[doc1019]

Presidents can give away American soil ... who knew?

[Brilliant]

Well one thing is certain. If the Russians own this oil, then it is more likely to end up in your gas tank than if Obama controls it.

[ColdSteelTalon]

Has there been an independent news source verifying this? Is this U.S. Territory?

[mnehring]

It isn’t his to give.

Has this been confirmed outside the blog/wnd world?

[icwhatudo]

This has been posted (and debunked) on FR many times.

"We’ve been reading about it Free Republic since the mid-years of George Bush."

Friday, March 16, 2012 3:35:13 PM by thackney

1) The islands are not and never were part of Alaska, they were not included in the purchase of Alaska.

2) The U.S. has never actually claimed the islands. Russia claimed the islands back under the Tzars.

3) The treaty on the maritime border was negotiated in 1990 and ratified by the Senate and signed by President Bush in 1991.

A map of the islands:

Friday, March 16, 2012 3:53:06 PM by Cheburashka

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Not the first time! Wern’t the WRANGEL ISLANDS once US territory? Did not the Soviets invade, killing several Americans and FDR eventually give up the islands to them?

[jackv]

Bttt

[ColdSteelTalon]

Are you a Democrat trying to make us look silly? :)

[HereInTheHeartland]

False and debunked several times here on FR.

[Lazamataz]

Dude. Stupid and refuted.

[Fresh Wind]

Buck Ofama.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Why not? He already gave oil off the coast of Florida to China.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

It would be huge if accurate. Does Obama have the power to prevent this give-away? I have no idea.

I received a copy of this via email and did a quick google ...

—COUNTER-POINT —

[similar to pro-obama factcheck.org’s take]

— wikipedia —

[regarding one specific island]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrangel_Island

Post-Soviet eraAccording to some US individuals, including the group State Department

Watch,[35] eight Arctic islands currently controlled by Russia, including Wrangel

Island, are claimed by the United States. However, according to the United States

Department of State[36] no such claim exists. The USSR/USA Maritime Boundary Treaty,[37] which has yet to be approved by the Russian Duma, does not specifically address the status of these islands nor the maritime boundaries associated with them.

On June 1, 1990, Secretary of State James Baker signed an executive agreement with Eduard Shevardnadze, the former U.S.S.R. foreign minister. It specified that even though
the treaty had not been ratified, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. agreed to abide by the terms of the treaty beginning June 15, 1990. According to State Department Watch, neither the
public nor Congress were informed of this executive agreement during the period leading up to the ratification vote.[38] The Senate ratified the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Maritime Boundary Treaty in 1991, which was then signed by President George Bush.[38]

[snip — un-quote]

— Warning: wikipedia —