The family of a North Texas Marine veteran who was freed by Russia returned to the White House to plead for other families. Trevor Reed's parents joined families of Americans who are held captive in Russia and other countries.
from a Russian prison last week was cause for unadulterated celebration for his family. For Elizabeth Whelan, the experience was far more bittersweet.
Once "we finally calmed down" later in the morning, Elizabeth Whelan said, the family recognized that "we need to get in touch with the and let them know we're not upset about Trevor coming home. We're upset about Paul not coming home." Everett Rutherford, whose nephew, Matthew Heath, is jailed in Venezuela, said the Biden administration needs to display "courage" and "moral fiber." He said "no one in Congress will ever bash" President Joe Biden over a deal that gets a wrongfully jailed American home.
Responding to the families' concerns, State Department spokesman Ned Price said Wednesday that the administration is doing everything it can — "almost all of it unseen, almost all voted unsaid in public" — to bring home American hostages and detainees. "You have to go the president — the one who's going to have to make the tough decisions to solve these particular cases," Elizabeth Whelan said. "Either that, or there needs to be a better approach to wrongful detention so that we’re not constantly knocking on his door."
Price, the State Department spokesman, declined to offer specifics about the reclassification, but said that factors for designating someone as wrongfully detained include an indication of innocence; if the detention is based on someone being a U.S. national; and if the detainee's due process has been "sufficiently denied or impaired."
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