Spy swap with Russia seems a bit fishy [View All]

[CHIMO]

WASHINGTON—It is all a bit fishy, the climactic swap that ends the biggest spy scandal since the Cold War.

As the Suburban Ten fly scot-free to Moscow — replete with their children, leaving mere guilty pleas in their wake — some in Washington are already muttering about a lopsided “catch and release” outcome.

The FBI spent eight hard-earned years watching the Russians; the Russians spent 10 easy-breezy days in detention. And now a trade, for four Russian prisoners with apparently little connection to the Americans?

Perhaps there is a hidden bait-and-switch that will show this to be a better deal for the U.S. But nothing so far is obvious, stagecraft experts here say.

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