https://www.rferl.org/a/us_russia_dialogue_human_rights_tougher_tone/24235596.html

"We had a very long discussion of the Magnitsky case with civil-society representatives at the meeting, in particular, asking the toughest questions of all to Mr. Surkov and other representatives of the Russian government," said McFaul.

"I think that others pushed back on that to say, 'Well, it's one thing to have new laws and all that, but the people who were responsible for this crime have not been prosecuted,'" said McFaul. "There was a pretty healthy exchange about that and a pretty healthy disagreement about the facts of that particular case."

https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/22476

When McFaul finally did reach his official residence at Spaso House in January, Moscow was tense after a wave of

antigovernment street protests. Washington then committed a classicbureaucratic blunder. It is customary for senior U.S.

officials when visiting a major foreign capital to meet with members of the opposition. Some unthinking scheduler had

McFaul's first day on the job coincide with Deputy Secretary of State William Burns' visit to Moscow. So when McFaul sat

in on Burns' dutiful meeting with the opposition to the United Russia party, it appeared to the Kremlin that McFaul's first

public act as ambassador was to greet Putin's adversaries.

https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/20607

MOSCOW — This winter, Michael McFaul discovered a number of surprising things about himself. He was imposing odious American holidays;like Valentine's Day and Halloween, on the Russian people. He personally whisked Russian opposition

politician Alexey Navalny out of the country to Yale on a fellowship. He was inviting opposition figures to the U.S. Embassy "to get instructions." And he was a pedophile. Or so his online tormentors claimed. One day, a horde of activists from Nashi, a pro-Kremlin youth group, showed up at the embassy gates in white jumpsuits, and played dead: They did not want to be the victims of a revolution, like the unfortunates of Egypt, their posters said.

https://www.algemeiner.com/2018/07/17/congressional-hearing-highlights-push-for-us-recognition-of-israeli-sovereignty-over-golan-heights/

“We can only imagine how much worse the threats to Israel’s north would be — and threats to the security of the broader region would be — if the Golan was in the hands of what remains of the Syrian regime, or Iran, or Hezbollah, or ISIS,” DeSantis, the chairman of the subcommittee, said.

https://www.algemeiner.com/2018/07/18/russian-envoy-briefs-iranian-regime-on-trump-putin-summits-syria-message/

While Putin did not directly address the ousting of Iranian forces from Syria during his remarks in Helsinki, he strongly advocated a return to the 1974 Separation of Forces Agreement between Syria and Israel, in order to bring “peace to Golan Heights and bring a more peaceful relationship between Syria and Israel, and also to provide security of the state of Israel.”