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July 19, 2018

White House Considers Allowing Russia to Interview U.S. Citizens
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This comes as the White House said it won't rule out a request by
Vladimir Putin to have the Russian government question former U.S.
diplomatic personnel on U.S. soil-including former ambassador to Moscow
Michael Mc Faul. Critics have blasted the Trump administration's
proposal as an assault on the principle of diplomatic immunity. It came
as part of a proposal by Putin that would allow U.S. investigators to
interview 12 Russians named in an indictment by special counsel Robert
Mueller's investigation earlier this month, claiming they were part of a
plot to interfere in the 2016 election. In exchange, Russian
investigators would be granted interviews in the U.S. with Ambassador Mc
Faul and 10 other Americans, including Bill Browder, an outspoken
opponent of Putin. In 2009, Browder's lawyer and accountant, the Russian
whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky, died in a Russian jail under suspicious
circumstances. His death became the basis of a U.S. sanctions law
against Russia, the Magnitsky Act.


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