The Cynical Exploitation of Brittney Griner

Brittney Griner is escorted to the courtroom in Khimki. (Kirill Kudryavtsev via Getty Images)
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Brittney Griner—the WNBA star recently sentenced by a Russian court to nine years in prison for bringing vape cartridges with trace amounts of hashish oil into the country—is almost definitely not a spy. She knows no state secrets, no names of any moles, no launch codes. Her strategic value to the United States is approximately zero.
But American offici…
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