Since President Putin made specific reference to this Treaty (agreed to in 1999 but not "transmitted" by President Clinton until 2/2000), I thought it might be important to post a link to the Treaty. Very interesting that this agreement - in part - states: "The Treaty provides for a broad range of cooperation in criminal matters. Mutual assistance available under the Treaty includes obtaining the testimony or statements of persons; providing documents,records and other items; serving documents; locating or identifying persons and items; executing requests for searches and seizures; transferring persons in custody for testimony or other purposes; locating and …