Bill Browder spins his tale at a Congressional hearing
The
story at Salon sets the stage for what should take place for resetting US-Russia relations. According to author Matthew Rozsa,
President Donald Trump is considering turning both "Bill Browder and a former US ambassador to Moscow, Michael McFaul, over to the Russian government for interrogation."
Whether or not the US president actually spoke of this "interrogation" with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki is irrelevant. What matters for the world is the justice that would prevail if he did send these two to Moscow for questioning.
In fact, what needs to take place is an internationally televise tribunal to condemn the Hermitage Capital pirate for what he is finally.
First of all, let me say this.
Only idiots believe that a financial highwayman like Bill Browder cares about human rights for Russians. The man who had Hermitage on the threshold of stealing the Russian legacy is foaming and fuming in Washington and London over sour grapes he was left when Putin put a stop to the rape of Russia. This is the end of the story, but in the script offers us more clues as to Browder's real intentions. Before I continue, this paragraph from the
Salon piece helps us open the drama with a US law brought into effect over the death of Browder's lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Russian prison.
"The Magnitsky Act, as well as other efforts Browder has spearheaded to punish Russia for its human-rights abuses, poses a serious threat to the enormous wealth of both Putin and the oligarchs around him."
Now let's turn to a film directed by Andrei Nekrasov, "The Magnitsky Act - Behind the Scenes," which portrays Browder as the fraud and criminal many say he is, and Magnitsky as an accomplice to the theft of Russian assets. This film was slated to premiere at the European Parliament in Brussels on April 27, 2016, but was blocked at the
11th hour by German television broadcaster ZDF, which shelved the film a few days before. The revealing exposé was eventually shown at the Newseum, a private museum in Washington, D.C.
despite Bill Browder's legal and political shenanigans to stop it. In the wake of the film's release,
The Nation wrote:
"... the Newseum deserves great credit for sticking to its principles. The film provides a valuable service by asking how it is that American (and European) officials bought Browder's story without doing even the slightest due diligence. The American and European legislators who took Browder's version of events on faith now look credulous, at best."
Comment: As regards the reference in the 2nd last paragraph above to Ardin working with the CIA, see this article for the evidence.