What About Paul Whelan? - December 8th, Hour 3
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
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🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Rebekah Koffler is the president of Doctrine & Strategy Consulting, a former DIA intelligence officer, and the author of "Putin’s Playbook: Russia’s Secret Plan to Defeat America." She also wrote the foreword for "Zelensky: The Unlikely Ukrainian Hero." She is well versed on the Merchant of Death, whom we released today in exchange for Griner. What does this mean for the war against Ukraine? Crimes against humanity? Not to mention Paul Whelan, an American Marine who has been in a Russian Labor Camp Prison since 2018. Griner was sentenced in October.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, news round up, information overload hour, 89941 Sean, if you want to be a part |
| 0:05.6 | of the program, a back to our top story of the day. |
| 0:08.6 | And that is this prisoner exchange, if you will. |
| 0:11.9 | Brittany Griner, an exchange for what is known as this guy Victor Bout, who is a, or I'm |
| 0:19.3 | sorry, Victor Boo, who is known as the merchant of death. |
| 0:22.8 | He's a Russian arms dealer. |
| 0:24.1 | He's been serving a 25-year prison sentence in the US on charges of conspiring to kill Americans. |
| 0:29.9 | A choir and export anti-aircraft missiles and provide material support to a terrorist |
| 0:35.4 | organization convicted in 2011. |
| 0:38.2 | And Bout maintained that he was innocent, but that's neither here nor there. |
| 0:43.7 | He became the world's most notorious arms dealer by fueling civil wars around the world. |
| 0:50.0 | And Bout originally made his name in the 1980s, arming young civil war fighters in Africa, |
| 0:55.5 | was arrested in a 2008 sting operation in Thailand that was led by US drug enforcement |
| 1:01.7 | agents posing as revolutionary armed forces of Colombia. |
| 1:05.4 | Now this was years in the making and it was called Operation Relentless and was eventually |
| 1:11.4 | handed over to the US in 2010. |
| 1:13.6 | As I said, he was convicted in 2011. |
| 1:16.2 | And anyway, he's believed to be 55 years old and born. |
| 1:21.4 | Who knows? |
| 1:22.4 | He speaks six languages. |
| 1:23.9 | This is a bad guy. |
| 1:24.9 | A really bad guy. |
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