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   From: me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net   
      
   "hamilton"  wrote in message   
   news:9fdc7583fcfa63dea22240390404523b@dizum.com...   
   > WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) - With midterm elections in the rearview   
   > mirror, U.S. leaders are hopeful they can bring Brittney Griner   
   > home.   
   >   
   > The basketball star was arrested for drug possession at a   
   > Russian airport in February and later sentenced to 9 years in   
   > prison. Her lawyers say she is serving that sentence inside of a   
   > Russian labor camp.   
   >   
   > U.S. officials have accused Russia of using her as a political   
   > pawn and have been trying to negotiate her release.   
   >   
   > "She is being held unjustly. She should be released   
   > immediately," National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said.   
      
   Held unjustly? She tried to smuggle illegal drugs into Russia. What is   
   UNJUST about her being arrested, tried and convicted on that?   
      
   If anyone else had done it.. we would probably never even heard about it...   
   but somehow as a 'person of interest' the rules should suddenly be   
   different?   
      
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