So Bill Gertz over at the Washington Times is asking a whole lot of questions about why the Obama Administration were so eager to do a spy swap with Russia so soon after catching the alleged spy ring.
The Obama administration’s rapid release of 10 Russian intelligence officers removed the prospect of a public trial revealing embarrassing facts about Russian influence operations, like the targeting of a key Democratic Party financier close to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Heck of a way to start off an article. No bury the lede in this one. Of course we get the denial from the administration and the attempt to paint anyone asking questions as a conspiracy theorist. It would have been nice to know the extent of the influence and spying, but it looks like we’ll never know now.
Former Pentagon official Frank Gaffney said releasing the spies so quickly prevented full learning about Moscow’s influence operations and its targets. “I was very troubled when the administration moved so swiftly to shut the whole thing down and send these people to where they could no longer be debriefed,” he said.
The administration was either trying to prevent damage to U.S.-Russia relations by making the swap, or the administration wanted to avoid disclosures about Russian influence targets and their ties to people like Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Gaffney said.
Nothing to see here. Move along. Go back to your daily dose of HFCS and Reality TV.
