When President Joe Biden granted clemency to Russia’s “Merchant of Death” Viktor Bout Thursday in exchange for American WNBA player Brittney Griner’s release, he let one of …
“I think there is a concern that he would return to doing the same kind of work that he’s done in the past,” a senior defense official said, referring to Bout’s work in Africa, where his client list included Liberian warlord Charles Taylor, longtime Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and both sides in Angola’s 26-year-long civil war.
He was convicted in 2011 of conspiracy to kill Americans and other charges and was sentenced to 25 years in prison the following year. John Bolton, former President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, called the arrangement “an American surrender,” arguing that releasing a convicted international terrorist for a basketball player was “not a trade.”“This is not what American strength looks like,” Bolton wrote on Twitter Thursday. “Terrorists and rogue states are smiling.”
A senior Biden administration official told The Post that prisoner swaps involving criminals like Bout will not “become the norm” for the US.The Biden administration official said this was a “rare case” and there were no “alternatives left” besides releasing Bout.Who is Viktor Bout, the ‘Merchant of Death’ the US traded for Brittney Griner?
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