Nothing should take away from the joy the families of the three Americans released to freedom over the past 36 hours are experiencing at this hour, but one family says that the past two days since the White House announced that they were on their way back to U.S. soil have been “gut wrenching,” as their loved one remains detained in a Russian prison cell.
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BREAKING: Russia Releases Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan As Part of Massive Prisoner Exchange
The sister of Pennsylvania schoolteacher Marc Fogel said during an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett that the prisoner swap deal secured by the Biden-Harris administration and U.S. allies should never have “left behind” her brother. As my colleague Nick Arama wrote on coverage of President Joe Biden’s mistake-ridden remarks on the returned Americans, Marc “has been held since August 2021 for what he claimed was 17 grams of…
