; Whereas President Putin stated that in order for him to permit the Special Counsel to question the 12 Russian military intelligence agents indicted for conspiracy to defraud the United States the United States must reciprocate by making available for interrogation by Russian authorities a former United States Ambassador to Russia and 11 other persons, an offensive suggestion that the President of the United States nonetheless characterized favorably as an incredible offer ; and Whereas the President of the United States, in the aftermath of the humiliating debacle in Helsinki, has invited President Putin to come to the United States for another set of secret meetings at the White House: Now, therefore, be it