Obama Whisked Russian Spy Out of Country After Arrest
FBI Director Robert Mueller’s 10-Year Investigation Squashed By Attorney General Eric Holder
In June of 2010, in another Mueller probe into Kremlin mischief, the FBI arrested a Russian spy who infiltrated Hillary Clinton’s inner circle by attaching herself to a close friend of the Secretary of State. Cynthia Murphy provided financial services to Clinton associate Alan Patricof, the Russian-American who served as finance chairman for Hillary Clinton’s run for the U.S. Senate. Patricof notified Hillary aide Huma Abedin when he learned of the investigation.
Within 2 weeks of the arrests of Murphy and 9 other spies, Obama closed the investigation and sent the operatives back to Russia without obtaining further information from them. The move limited damage to Hillary Clinton’s political aspirations.
The FBI Director at the time was Robert Mueller, recently appointed as Special Counsel in the manufactured Trump-Russia probe.
FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi explained the objectives of the Kremlin-directed operation: to collect information helpful to Moscow by blending spies into American governmental and academic institutions. According to The Washington Times,
the spy ring’s reports to Moscow revealed that the group was providing important data on the international gold markets, U.S. foreign policy toward Russia and Asia, and the identities of people applying for positions at the CIA.
Instead of prosecuting the suspects, or even interrogating them to gain intelligence, the Obama administration hastily arranged a prisoner swap to whisk the spies out of the country. Normally, prisoner swaps take years of intense negotiations, but this one took 2 weeks.
Amazingly, the prisoners released by the Russians were not Americans. They were themselves Russians, accused by Russia of being American spies. Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had arranged a Russian-American prisoner swap where both sides released Russians.
The furious effort to release the Russians contrasted starkly with the administration’s refusal to help actual Americans unlawfully detained in Iran, Portugal, and Mexico. Unfortunately for those detainees, their release could not be linked to a political goal of the President or Secretary of State.
The Guardian reported that “the case was brought to a swift conclusion before it could complicate the president’s campaign to ‘reset’ US relations with Russia.”
Obama feared spies would leave on their own, then released them
Obama Attorney General Eric Holder stated that he ordered the spies’ arrests because he feared that they would leave the country. And then he escorted them out of the country!
Holder stated, “This was an extraordinary case, developed through years of work by investigators, intelligence lawyers, and prosecutors.” And when evidence pointed to Hillary Clinton, he released the spies in record time!
The Washington Post described the damage inflicted by the deal:
“One thing that makes it harder to recruit people for work like this is the prospect you’re going to be in a world of hurt if you get caught. If the worst you have to worry about is the American government’s catch-and-release policy, what kind of deterrent is that?” said Stephen Sestanovich, a Russia expert who has worked for both Republican and Democratic administrations.
John L. Martin, who supervised dozens of espionage cases during a 26-year career at the Justice Department, said earlier spy exchanges took years to work out. The speed at which the latest one occurred was “absolutely unprecedented,” he said.
Indeed, the swap could feed Republican criticism that the Obama administration is too accommodating toward Russia.
How are we supposed to believe that Russia wanted this bunch of weaklings to lose the election? It’s absurd.
Spy Release Part of Obama-Clinton Policy of Early-Often Surrender
The timing of the arrests and quick release of the Russian spies was curious. Just 3 days before the arrests, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev met with Obama and Secretary Clinton at the White House. It was Obama’s seventh meeting with Medvedev in 17 months, and not a single memo was ever leaked to The New York Times!
The Times reported that the parties discussed economic policy; that is, when they weren’t discussing ways to undermine FBI investigations uncovering Russian spies working for Hillary Clinton’s friends. Days before, The Times reports, Medvedev visited California to sell Silicon Valley executives on his own technology venture in Skolkovo.
The Skolkovo venture, promoted by Hillary Clinton, turned out to be a front for the Russian military. It resulted in Russia gaining classified American technology relating to advanced weapons systems. The Clinton Foundation received up to $23 million in donations from the firms that Hillary lured to Skolkovo.
The constant early contact between the Obama White House and the Kremlin had resulted in major gains for the Russians, and nothing but abject surrender for the Americans. Yet The Times and its Democrat allies saw nothing of a conspiratorial nature in the whole humiliating episode. It cheerily reported that after a 105-minute phone call with Obama, Medvedev quipped, “The ear starts getting stiff.” That’s one conversation we don’t want the NSA to release.
Of course, this unbroken early string of American concessions only set the table for more concessions later. While discussing missile defense in March 2012, Obama was caught on an open mic telling Medvedev, “I have more flexibility after the election.” He was telling the Russian President that American voters disliked American Presidents surrendering to Russia, so he was waiting until after the election to surrender.
Mueller And The Release of the Russian Spies
It’s a sure bet that the Democrat media have no interest in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s experience as the FBI Director who was ordered by Obama to end a 10-year investigation that uncovered actual Russian espionage. Until this week, they apparently had no idea that presidents could even offer opinions to the FBI.
Mueller can shed some light about which party conspired to excuse Russian espionage, and which candidate had a personal interest in making the matter go away. Of course, The Times and The Washington Post don’t seem to have much of a nose for news when the news isn’t good for the Democrats. But the internet is a terrible thing, and they wrote all about it in 2010. They just need to be reminded.