The news out of Moscow suggests that the Russian spy story may not be what it appears to be. Our Russians friends who have bent over backwards to accommodate Mr. Obama's efforts at appeasement wouldn't want to jeopardize their new relationship with America. What if this is the work of the vast right wing conspiracy? If that sounds like Clintonesque spin, consider that the former president was in Moscow for a friendly chat with the prime minister.

The Moscow Times reports.

"Back at your home, the police went out of control [and] are throwing people in jail," Putin told former U.S. President Bill Clinton during a meeting in Moscow. "But that's the kind of job they have. I hope that all the positive gains that have been achieved in our relationship will not be damaged by the recent event."

"It looks like the work of someone who is very powerful and in the political opposition to Obama, or a hawkish military and intelligence group not happy with the reset of relations with Russia," Gudkov said.

Another top spook, Nikolai Kovalyov, pointed to a number of discrepancies in the Justice Department's case as proof that it was an attempt to undercut Obama's "reset" effort.

...Kovalyov said details in U.S. court papers about the suspects using invisible ink, fake documents and even transferring money by burying it in a glass jar for retrieval months later were "complete nonsense" and sounded like "a cheap detective novel," Interfax reported.