American Thinker Blog: The Senator and the spies:

Toby Harnden has done a fine wrap up of the Myers' spy case (see here and here for background) for the Washingtonian.

Among the points of interest:

The first person Gwen Myers called upon being arrested was her old boss former Democrat Senator Abourezk to ask for assistance in finding a lawyer. The old [c]astro lover (like the Myerses themselves) hasn't wavered one bit in his support of Cuba.

His defense of the couple? It's the fault of the U.S.

"If we'd have ended the embargo years ago, there would have been no spying and none of this stuff would have happened. To me, if the Cubans are spying, it would be a defensive thing. What's Cuba going to do to the US? Invade? Are you kidding?"

Here's more at Washingtonian Magazine's site:

It was, however, more than just sailing, the Westchester, and a love of old Washington that united Kendall and Gwen Myers. And despite the outward serenity of their lives in 2007, they worried that the secret they had treasured together for almost 30 years was about to be revealed.

Unbeknownst to their large families and lifelong friends, Kendall was Cuba’s Agent 202 and Gwen Agent 123 or E-634—spies dedicated not just to each other but also to what they saw as [f]idel [c]astro’s socialist nirvana in the Caribbean.

And despite their enjoying every benefit that US citizenship and residence can bestow, the government alleges that they nursed a deep-seated rage against the United States.

“The trouble with this country, there’s just too many North Americans,” Kendall told an undercover FBI agent—identified here by the pseudonym Hector—who was posing as a Cuban intelligence officer in April 2009. The downside of lifting the Cuban travel embargo, Kendall quipped, was that “believe me, those North Americans, you don’t want them.”

He later told Hector that “we really love your country” and “[f]idel is wonderful, just wonderful.” Gwen ventured that [c]astro was the most “incredible statesman,” while Kendall said that “our idea is to sail home” to Cuba.

Whether out of a romanticism that made them blind to the human-rights abuses of [c]astro’s regime or a hard-nosed belief that extraordinary measures were needed to preserve the revolution, the Myerses’ commitment to Cuba appears never to have wavered. Throughout their spying, however, they treated themselves to a lifestyle that an ordinary Cuban could only dream of.

I hope they rot in prison and then in hell, which can't come to soon for these two scumbags.