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...which the Clinton foreign policy team holds Russia is dangerously myopic. The Ames scandal "ends the simpleminded optimism that we could have a relationship with Russia that would be without clouds," says Paul Goble, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "The simpleminded confidence that Yeltsin is a good guy is naive...
...Bosnia. To others the American anger about the Russians' paying Ames to reveal the names of double agents seemed baffling because, in exposing the fact that the U.S. is continuing to spy on Russia, Ames' arrest proves that America is no innocent bystander when it comes to espionage. Yeltsin's chief spokesman, Vyacheslav Kostikov, warned Washington against "returning to the psychology of the cold war and whipping up distrust and a new wave of spy mania...
...public relations fallout from the Ames case will probably dissipate fairly swiftly. But what will not go away and will, in the next several months, have far more significant consequences for U.S.-Russian relations is the disturbing question of whether Yeltsin's power base is slowly eroding. Despite a newly forged constitution that was supposed to strengthen his powers, the President seems to find himself circumscribed more narrowly with each passing week...
Politicians were quick to ask those questions. Democrat Dan Glickman of Kansas, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, pledged an "extensive, exhaustive review" of the case. Republicans in both chambers demanded a "rethinking" of the Clinton Administration's close ties to Russian President Boris Yeltsin and threatened to halt aid to Russia if Moscow didn't come up with some explanations -- and fast...
Clinton, meanwhile, resisted calls to halt or cut foreign aid to Russia, holding fast to his support of Yeltsin and Russia's democratizing and economic reforms. "A great portion of our aid is to facilitate the dismantlement of nuclear weapons that were aimed at the United States for over four decades," he told leaders in both chambers. "It is in our interest, plainly, to continue this policy." The President's position is unlikely to change. In the roughly 10 months that he has known the Ameses were under investigation by a joint FBI-CIA task force, his policy toward Russia...