{"id":51423,"date":"2022-04-30T01:28:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T01:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51423"},"modified":"2022-04-30T01:28:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T01:28:47","slug":"handle-prisoner-swaps-carefully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51423","title":{"rendered":"Handle prisoner swaps carefully"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Trevor-Reed-REUTERS-TT-01.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51419\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Trevor-Reed-REUTERS-TT-01-300x201.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Trevor-Reed-REUTERS-TT-01-300x201.webp 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Trevor-Reed-REUTERS-TT-01-1024x686.webp 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Trevor-Reed-REUTERS-TT-01-768x515.webp 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Trevor-Reed-REUTERS-TT-01.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trevor Reed&#8217;s release from a Russian prison cell thrills me greatly. The young Texan, a former Marine, is now home after spending 900-plus days in prison for a crime he denies committing.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration and members of the Texas congressional delegation worked hard to secure Reed&#8217;s release. He&#8217;s now home. I wish the young man well as he recovers his health and his emotional well-being.<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, comes a word of caution.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden agreed to swap Reed for a Russian who was held in our prison system. The exchange took place the way it&#8217;s done in the movies; the two men walked past each other without saying a word.<\/p>\n<p>I will not dispute the need to do whatever it takes to Americans freed from wrongful imprisonment. I just hope we don&#8217;t get too carried away with this idea of releasing foreign bad guys who well could be released to do harm to us.<\/p>\n<p>We still need to get two more Americans out of prison in Russia. Paul Whelan has been held for a couple of years on spying charges; Brittany Griner, a woman&#8217;s basketball star, was arrested by airport security agents for trying to board an airplane carrying cannabis products in her baggage.<\/p>\n<p>We need to get these Americans home, too. I just want the administration to be careful about sending Russian lawbreakers back to where they could do harm to this country or our allies.<\/p>\n<p>Do the ends justify the means? In this case, yes &#8230; but not every single time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trevor Reed&#8217;s release from a Russian prison cell thrills me greatly. The young Texan, a former Marine, is now home after spending 900-plus days in prison for a crime he denies committing. The Biden administration and members of the Texas congressional delegation worked hard to secure Reed&#8217;s release. He&#8217;s now home. I wish the young &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51423\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Handle prisoner swaps carefully<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8688],"tags":[2505,4050],"class_list":["post-51423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-news","tag-joe-biden","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51424,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51423\/revisions\/51424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}