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Editorial: America revels in Brittney Griner’s return. Now Biden must do the same for Paul Whelan and Marc Fogel

The people who become Vladimir Putin’s pawns never realize the vicious game ensnaring them.

Until it’s too late.

WNBA star Brittney Griner made the mistake of carrying in her luggage vape cartridges with a minuscule amount of cannabis oil as she traveled to Russia to play basketball in February. Nine months later, Griner found herself in a penal colony outside Moscow on a drug possession conviction that hardly warranted the nine-year sentence she began serving.

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