An FBI Bungle?

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What explains the timing of the bust of the Russian spy ring just four days after Barack Obama’s “cheeseburger summit” with Dmitry Medvedev?


“Many Russian officials and analysts,” reports the Wall Street Journal, “said they presumed that hawkish elements within the U.S. government had engineered and timed the arrests to embarrass President Obama and undermine the ‘reset’” that the American president had set in motion. 

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