[treetopsandroofs]

Anyone else remember this?

In 2010, a Russian spy ring operating in Washington, D.C., was exposed. Rather than hold the spies for interrogation, President Obama rapidly bundled them back to Russia, where Vladimir Putin did not even bother feigning embarrassment, instead praising the spies for “risking themselves and those close to them” “to benefit their motherland’s interests.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443438/russian-spies-expelled-diplomatic-sanctions-obama-gets-tough-finally

My interpretation at the time was that Putie had assisted the Fraud’s “transition”, sanitizing pesky documents, etc.

[Oratam]

I may be confusing the two but I recall an arrest that revealed a Russian spy ring reminiscent of the one described in Nelson DeMille's Charm School.

It's possible that Russian spy Anna Chapman was sent to seduce Barry . . .

. . . but her charms were lost on him.