Posted on 07/10/2010 11:01:59 PM PDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON On a Friday afternoon in mid-June, President Obama sat down with advisers in the Oval Office and learned that the F.B.I. planned to round up the largest ring of Russian sleeper agents since the cold war. After discussion about what the agents had done, the conversation turned to the fallout: what to do after the arrests?
In that moment was born a back-to-the-future plan that would play out four weeks later, a prisoner exchange with surreal and even cinematic overtones as Russian and American airplanes met on a sunny tarmac in the heart of Europe on Friday to trade agents and spies much as had been done during a more hostile era.
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Could it be Obama destroyed a major counter intelligence resource?
this administration has no appetite to prosecute anyone but CIA officials who may have been too mean when interrogating terrorist murderers, oil companies, and states that have the audacity to try to protect their citizens.
terrorists and russian spies get a pass.
One of the first things anyone with more than 2 working brain cells thinks of regarding spies is to swap them...

"The spies will be in two weeks.
Be a good plant. Send the spies back to home immediately.
Any interrogation will lead back to the DNC,
to the hundreds of spies recruited ... and us."
Away from too many prying eyes of reporters and away from the White House recording devices, the maoist and the KBG agent too off for hell-burgers to make their plans......
“Could it be Obama destroyed a major counter intelligence resource?”
If one of the commies was stood up in front of a Watergate judge who threatened them with 50 years in the can, she would have squealed on the Kenyan.
Can’t have that...
What I meant was, if the CIA knew they were spies, we could have been feeding them misinformation for the last 10 years.
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