WaPo’s Rezaian: Currently, ‘There’s
No Cost’ for Countries Who Imprison Americans
Posted By: Dreadnought, 8/2/2024 11:01:24 AM
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports,” Washington Post columnist Jason Rezaian, who was wrongfully detained by Iran for over a year before being freed in a prisoner swap in 2016, argued that while we shouldn’t avoid doing deals to free wrongfully detained Americans, countries take Americans prisoner “because they can get away with it. They’ve seen time and again, that they’re able to take an American and extract something of value in return.” And “we have to raise the cost of doing this in the first place. At the moment, there’s no cost to doing it.”
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Guest host Michael Steele said, “I want to touch on a little bit of the noise he made earlier this week, which I personally appreciated and wanted to make sure people understood what I thought of what you said, when you caution folks. All the exuberance and all the excitement we are seeing right now in the campaign is good, it’s healthy, it is important, particularly given the campaign for Joe Biden was. Your point is don’t let that exuberance cloud
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... and ...
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Say that five times fast - I dare you.
HAH!
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There is a Cheat Machine out there.
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(Snip) What could the Census Bureau tell me about the results of the 2020 presidential election? Well, it told me quite a bit.
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leadership.
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