John Brennan on Prisoner Swap Deal: ‘Remarkable Display of Very Effective and Successful Statecraft and Diplomacy by the Biden-Harris Administration’

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BRENNAN: “Well, it’s an unprecedented deal and it is a remarkable display of very effective and successful statecraft and diplomacy by the Biden-Harris Administration. Because there are just so many pieces to this. As you mentioned earlier, it was two years in the making. This is the continuation of the ongoing dialogue between the United States and Russia about getting individuals released and so I’m sure that over the course of these last many months, there have been detailed discussions that had to take place both within the United States government, because there are multiple agencies that would need to be involved, but also this orchestration across five or six other countries in terms of getting them to agree to release some prisoners, and also just to take care of the logistics about when this transfer would take place, how it would be done.”