{"id":2035,"date":"2010-07-08T20:02:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T20:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2010-07-08T20:02:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T20:02:36","slug":"spy_swap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2035","title":{"rendered":"Spy Swap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/07\/08\/AR2010070803476_pf.html\">Washington Post<\/a>&nbsp;is reporting that the United States will swap ten of the recently apprehended&nbsp;Russian spies for four Americans that the&nbsp;Russians claim are spies.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Holder and Robert Mueller praised the arrests of the Russian spies as the result of years of investigations and counterintelligence work.&nbsp; Stephen Sestanovich, a former National Security Council official who is an expert on Russia, questioned the wisdom of the quick release of the spies.&nbsp; The United States did not really have very much time to learn anything from any of them.<\/p>\n<p>I really wonder about the speed and the balance of this transaction.&nbsp; Why did the Russians turn over four alleged spies when we surrendered ten?&nbsp; Why was this done so quickly?&nbsp; What was the risk to America or to the Russians of keeping these spies in prison in America for a year or two?&nbsp; What message are we sending to the world about how we deal with spies?&nbsp; Is catch and release a good way to deal with spies?<\/p>\n<p>I am sure more of this story will come out eventually.&nbsp; There has to be more, and I am sure some journalist will uncover it.&nbsp; It might be very interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Washington Post&nbsp;is reporting that the United States will swap ten of the recently apprehended&nbsp;Russian spies for four Americans that the&nbsp;Russians claim are spies. Eric Holder and Robert Mueller praised the arrests of the Russian spies as the result of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2035\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}