The Russian spy who shook the foundations of the NRA is mocking the U.S. for swapping a notorious arms dealer for Brittney Griner.
Marina Butina — now a politician — joins a raft of others in the intelligence community who are wondering whether the swap was too high a price to pay.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Ottawa SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc.
This video grab taken from a footage shown on December 8, 2022 by Russian state media that AFP couldn’t independently authenticate shows U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner filling documents before to be freed from prison in Moscow. U.S. DEA agents arrested him in Thailand in 2008 and he was extradited to the U.S. two years later. He was convicted of conspiring to sell weapons to a “designated foreign terrorist group.”But U.S. critics found common cause with the former Russian spy, claiming the U.S. had been scammed.
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