Should the US engage in a spy swap? (suspect, Obama, states)

[Gary Siete]

Should the US engage in a spy swap?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/wo...ia.html?src=mv

Reports from Washington on Wednesday that just days after the F.B.I.’s sensational dismantling of a Russian spy ring, the American and Russian authorities were negotiating an exchange of some or all of the 10 espionage suspects for prisoners held in Russia,

An exchange would have some advantages for the Obama administration, avoiding costly trials that could be an irritant for months or years in American-Russian relations. But the White House might be reluctant to give up the spy suspects, who were the targets of a decade-long F.B.I. investigation, without getting prisoners that the United States valued in return.

The potential exchange could also fuel accusations that the administration was being soft on Russia.

[zuendel]

Voted for swap, both were spies. After all, that's what's usual in this game, you get caught, you're exchanged for fellow spies.