That's nice -- what looks like the low-key end to what was an out-of-date news story. It was like having to go back decades, put on a poodle skirt and relearn the Eastern jitterbug. Those dangerous spies in our Soviet suburbs will most likely be swapped out for Igor Sutyagin, a Russian scientist accused of spying for the US, according to the NYT.
Mr. Sutyagin’s lawyer, Anna Stavitskaya, a prominent Moscow human rights lawyer, said he would be swapped for one of the Russians accused in the United States of failing to register as an agent for a foreign government, the Interfax news agency reported.
“They are going to swap him, among others, for those who have been detained in America,” Ms. Stavitskaya said.
Meanwhile, another swap is taking place inside the US. Obama is swapping out drilling for no drilling again.
The Obama administration.has asked a federal court in Louisiana to reinstate the ban on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, saying the moratorium was a rational response to the unprecedented emergency of the BP oil spill.
In a court filing late Tuesday, the Interior Department said that the six-month ban on drilling in more than 500 feet of water, imposed in late May, was necessary to allow time to adopt stricter safety and environmental regulation of deepwater wells.
This could do some political damage to the administration along the coast where people are fearful of losing more jobs. But, of course, it's the right thing to do until we can be sure deepwater drilling is subject to effective oversight. Preferably never.
