Brittney Griner pleaded guilty in a Russian court to drugs charges that could see her face 10 years in prison; Update: SHE IS FREE

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After months of internal debate, the Biden administration has offered to exchange Viktor Bout, a convicted Russian arms trafficker serving a 25-year US prison sentence, as part of a potential deal to secure the release of two Americans held by Russia, Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, according to people briefed on the matter.

These sources told CNN that the plan to trade Bout for Whelan and Griner received the backing of President Joe Biden after being under discussion since earlier this year. Biden’s support for the swap overrides opposition from the Department of Justice, which is generally against prisoner trades.

“We communicated a substantial offer that we believe could be successful based on a history of conversations with the Russians,” a senior administration official told CNN Wednesday. “We communicated that a number of weeks ago, in June.”

The official declined to comment on the specifics of the “substantial offer.” They said it was in Russia’s “court to be responsive to it, yet at the same time that does not leave us passive, as we continue to communicate the offer at very senior levels.”

“It takes two to tango. We start all negotiations to bring home Americans held hostage or wrongfully detained with a bad actor on the other side. We start all of these with somebody who has taken a human being American and treated them as a bargaining chip,” the official said. “So in some ways, it’s not surprising, even if it’s disheartening, when those same actors don’t necessarily respond directly to our offers, don’t engage constructively in negotiations.”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Wednesday that the US presented a “substantial proposal” to Moscow “weeks ago” for Whelan and Griner, who are classified as wrongfully detained. The top US diplomat said he intended to discuss the matter on an expected call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov this week.
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dora_da_destroyer said:
this looks lopsided AF even with this Paul Whelean dude (altho I don't know what he was really up to, maybe he is a spy worth getting back on american soil), but releasing an international arms dealer for a hoop player caught up on weed charges :patrice:
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Oh is lopsided when you getting two prisoners for one

brittney griner is pro american athlete not some harden criminal, her life more important than keeping that piece of shyt arms dealer in prison over here
 
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Happy she coming home but just like everything else in America nothing gets done unless white people are benefiting

Her black ass wouldn’t be getting released by herself
 
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I would not exchange her for a dangerous arms dealer. I could understand if she was US military personnel illegally detained on trumped up charges but she literally broke the law in Russia. There's a US teacher there right now who JUST got sentenced to 14 years for the same shyt. We only gonna let the celeb go? What type of dangerous precedent does this set? Russia and other countries could simply seize another celebrity and demand similar exchanges.
 
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