The article, U.S. seized opportunity in arrests of Russian spies, in the Washington Post at least passes the smell test.

With this depth of information in the article, I wonder if this had been known by the press, but was under embargo until the trade was completed. I am waiting for an article describing the press’s role in this story.

As all politicians and people in the public sphere should have learned by now, a cover up is often more serious than the misdeed being covered up.