Obama Takes Putin’s Side in Magnitsky Case
The lawyer for a major foreign investor in Russia is arrested on bogus charges while attempting to expose corruption by the Kremlin. Once in jail, he’s brutally tortured to death. A bipartisan pair of U.S. senators introduces legislation to block the high-level Kremlin officials who were directly involved in the murder from setting foot on U.S. soil.
What response do you expect from the president of the United States?
For some time now, I have been expressing outrage at the fact that Barack Obama did not actively support the Cardin-McCain Magnitsky Act, named for Sergei Magnitsky, the attorney in question. But I never dared dream that Obama would take the Kremlin’s side and aggressively seek to derail the legislation for his own personal political gain.
Yet that is exactly what the Washington Post reports he has “quietly” done.
The Financial Times immediately noted that the United States was “toning down” its action regarding Magnitsky. That’s a mighty understatement. Acting as if it were a lobbyist for the Kremlin, the Obama administration first issued an ominous warning to the Senate:
Senior Russian government officials have warned us that they will respond asymmetrically if this legislation passes. Their argument is that we cannot expect them to be our partner in supporting sanctions against countries like Iran, North Korea, and Libya, and sanction them at the same time. Russian officials have said that other areas of bilateral cooperation, including on transit to Afghanistan, could be jeopardized if this legislation passes.
Vladimir Putin couldn’t have put it better himself!
Then Hillary Clinton went to work “quietly” behind the scenes to strike a deal in which the State Department would “quietly” ban a certain number of Russian officials administratively if key senators would withdraw their support for Cardin-McCain.
One could almost see Putin grinning from ear to ear, like the Grinch who stole Christmas.
According to Freedom House, the level of democracy and liberty in Russia has declined each and every year since Putin has held power. Young Russians are fleeing the country at breakneck speed to avoid persecution. Opposition figures who are not murdered outright (like Magnitsky, journalist Anna Politkovskaya, and legislator Galina Starovoitova) are subjected to relentless harassment: First the Kremlin tried to revoke former first deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov’s passport to keep him in the country, then it considered revoking his citizenship to keep him out.
why would anyone be surprised at obummers actions?? he has shown his marxist leanings for years now,
This comes as a surprise because…?
Breaking News! Water is wet!!!!!
Obama never met a dictator he couldn’t support.
(Another bulletin from the reality based community.)
Reuters:
Mark Toner, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department, confirmed on Wednesday that the United States has imposed visa restrictions on some Russian officials believed involved in Magnitsky’s death. He said the restrictions were imposed as part of a broader program targeting human rights violators.
“We do issue visa restrictions on individuals around the world. In this specific case it was the individuals we believe are responsible for his death,” Toner said in a briefing. “The Magnitsky case has long been an issue of concern between us and Russia and we’ve raised it with them many times.”
(And now back to your regular programming.)
Do we need Russia’s support, or is it more important to stick it in their eye over an internal matter? We have enough disgraces in our own country. We rant about them here.
Oh, of course, how silly to suggest that America stands for something. Internal matter. None of our business. So just let the torturing, murdering thugs come to America as if we have no principles.
Reagan would have never, ever- so o’ don’t even try to connect your name to his anymore, ever, never.
Much of the mystery about Obama goes away when you realize one thing: He doesn’t just support Putin, he *works* for Putin. Obama is a Russian agent, the key element of an old Soviet plan to place a mole in the White House.
Why else was a top priority of Obama to get a new START treaty that requires us to reduce our nuclear stockpile by 2/3, while Russia gets to *increase* their aging and decrepit stockpile? Why else did he pursue a massive new entitlement program in the midst of an incipient depression? Why else does he pursue massive counterfeiting by the Federal Reserve (ie, QE1, QE2, and coming, QE3)? Why else is he trying to push the country into credit default by insisting on massive increasess when so many people are out of work and so many businesses faltering or failing?
Many people think he’s misguided, ignorant, confused. No. It all makes sense if you realize his goal is not to help the country, but to destroy it.
There is no conspiracy theory: his parents, grandparents, mentor and lifelong associates were all communists. His mentor was a member of the Communist Party USA, under KGB control. The KGB had plans like this in operation for 70 years throughout the world. Is it any mystery they would do the same in this country?
Rex, so true. From Russia With Love, all one has to do is google: Tom Fife “The First Time I Heard of Barack”
snippet:
The bottom line of the tirade she started against the United States went something like this:
“You Americans always like to think that you have the perfect government and your people are always so perfect. Well then, why haven’t you had a woman president by now? You had a chance to vote for a woman vice-president and you didn’t do it.”
“Well, I think you are going to be surprised when you get a black president very soon.”
“What if I told you that you will have a black president very soon and he will be a Communist?”
The out-of-the-blue remark was met by our stares. She continued, “Well, you will; and he will be a Communist.”
It was then that the husband unsuccessfully tried to change the subject; but she was on a roll and would have nothing of it. One of us asked, “It sounds like you know something we don’t know.”
“Yes, it is true. This is not some idle talk. He is already born and he is educated and being groomed to be president right now. You will be impressed to know that he has gone to the best schools of Presidents. He is what you call “Ivy League”. You don’t believe me, but he is real and I even know his name. His name is Barack. His mother is white and American and his father is black from Africa. That’s right, a chocolate baby! And he’s going to be your President.”
Also google:KGB OPERATION “BARACK OBAMA” by Mikhail Kryzhanovsky
If I hear that dude in the White House use Reagan’s name one more time I am going to vomit. He is not in the same league and I question his national interests. I have an insider’s insight in to Russia and going no further than that Obama is very wrong. AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN
Barack Obama: Marxist Lackey. What else needs to be said?
Only the naive, infantilized State Department could think that the US will get any worthwhile cooperation from Russia from sucking up to it.
when chicago jesus first got elected he tried to secretly overthrow Honduran’s democratic government and illegally install a marxist x-president into the mix just before the election. some say the election was rigged. Hondurans only now still have their demoicratic government due the their senate and judiciary arresting the trash and ejecting him from the country. didn’t hear about it in the news? imagine that.
to understand c.j. one needs only to understand communism. once they get elected, there are no more free elections, unless you are willing to spill blood. putin has strangled any chance Russia had at a damocratic system. the funny thing about communism/socialism, the top guys always get special treatment. opps, we already have that as well (health care, multi-perks, lifetime full retirement, and on and on).
no legitimate birth certificate – no legitimate SS# – gun running across the border causiing many deaths – trillion$ spent on his buds – who knows what all this c.j. has done. the question: what will it take to get the American people to demand real answers to these real questions?