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Post by jjas on Dec 8, 2022 8:58:43 GMT -5
From CNN:
Washington
CNN
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WNBA star Brittney Griner has been released from Russian detention, President Joe Biden said Thursday.
A source familiar with the matter tells CNN that the swap involves convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout. The swap did not include another American that the State Department has declared wrongfully detained, Paul Whelan.
“She’s safe, she’s on a plane, she’s on her way home,” Biden said at the White House Thursday morning alongside Griner’s wife, Cherelle. “After months of being unjustly detained in Russia, held under untolerable circumstances, Brittney will soon be back in the arms of her loved ones, and she should have been there all along.”
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Post by greghopper on Dec 8, 2022 9:16:59 GMT -5
A little early…..  |
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Post by freedomhunter on Dec 8, 2022 9:24:20 GMT -5
You almostt killed my girlfriend lol. Glad they let him out everyone deserves a second chance
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Dec 8, 2022 12:23:29 GMT -5
Saw that coming as soon as it was put in jail. Let’s see, trade someone that is an arms trafficker for someone else who hates this country and can shoot a basketball. Seems like a good trade to me. SMH
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Post by jjas on Dec 8, 2022 13:04:08 GMT -5
Saw that coming as soon as it was put in jail. Let’s see, trade someone that is an arms trafficker for someone else who hates this country and can shoot a basketball. Seems like a good trade to me. SMH You didn't really think that Russia would release Paul Whelan when they had Brittney Griner in their hip pocket did you? Brittney Griner comes home. Victor Bout is freed. Biden calls it a win. And unfortunately for Paul Whelan, he gets to continue being a pawn. BTW, does anyone know why Whelan was in Russia to begin with? |
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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 8, 2022 18:32:15 GMT -5
My take on this is the Russkies are two (or more) steps ahead of Biden's flunkies. Thye arrested her so they would have a bargaining chip. If she had not been carrying they would have planted it.
Reminds me of the four terrorists we released from Gitmo in exchange for a traitor.
VERY dangerous precedent... America has something a dictator wants? Grab an American hostage and then negotiate..
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Post by span870 on Dec 9, 2022 4:09:02 GMT -5
How many Americans died by the hands of Bout. Convicted of selling arms to Columbian drug lords and the Taliban in Afghanistan while we were fighting them.
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Post by beermaker on Dec 9, 2022 5:47:18 GMT -5
I have a strict personal policy that guarantees that I will never be detained in a corrupt foreign country.
Can anyone guess what that policy is?
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Post by Huntnfreak on Dec 9, 2022 7:12:35 GMT -5
I have a strict personal policy that guarantees that I will never be detained in a corrupt foreign country. Can anyone guess what that policy is? Yeah..it’s the same as mine….don’t go there!!! |
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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 9, 2022 10:01:19 GMT -5
Andrea Mitchell (media darling of the left) stated that Biden's negotiators had a choice of Whelan, Griner or none in the swap. Of course he took Griner (identity politics) over a Marine that served faithfully.
THEN NBC scrubbed what she said and posted that Biden had a choice of Griner or none.
No doubt the Dem government is still calling the shots as to what the media can post.
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Post by stevein on Dec 9, 2022 10:26:30 GMT -5
Griner was the perfect hostage for the Russians. A drug user and a woman? married to another woman.
The US appears to have changed the policy again regrading the negotiations with terrorists'.
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Post by stevein on Dec 9, 2022 10:28:21 GMT -5
I have a strict personal policy that guarantees that I will never be detained in a corrupt foreign country. Can anyone guess what that policy is? Yeah..it’s the same as mine….don’t go there!!! I have enough trouble just crossing Illinois. |
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Post by welder on Dec 9, 2022 13:05:06 GMT -5
Griner was the perfect hostage for the Russians. A drug user and a woman? married to another woman. The US appears to have changed the policy again regrading the negotiations with terrorists'. You mean a "woman" married to another woman. |
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Post by Sasquatch on Dec 10, 2022 10:03:40 GMT -5
What a great swap!
Hope she gets limbered up enough by the next WNBA season to kneel properly.
Booooooooooo
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