{"id":1584609,"date":"2022-08-02T10:13:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T14:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1584609"},"modified":"2022-08-02T10:14:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T14:14:10","slug":"who-is-victor-bout-arms-dealer-linked-to-swap-for-americans-held-by-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-is-victor-bout-arms-dealer-linked-to-swap-for-americans-held-by-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Victor Bout, Arms Dealer Linked to Swap for Americans Held by Moscow?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwho-is-victor-bout-arms-dealer-linked-to-swap-for-americans-held-by-moscow%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1584609&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>According to press reports, the U.S. government is prepared to swap notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout for Paul Whelan and <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/this-isnt-a-jason-bourne-movie-brittney-griners-case-presents-new-challenge-for-white-house-172050275.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Brittney Griner;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Brittney Griner<\/a>, two Americans currently jailed in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Whelan, a former U.S. Marine and Michigan police officer, was arrested in Russia in December 2018 on espionage charges, which he denied; he was sentenced to 16 years in June 2020. Griner, a WNBA player and Olympic gold medalist, was detained in February at Moscow\u2019s Sheremetyevo Airport, exactly one week before Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, on charges that she was trafficking cannabis oil \u2014 a banned substance in Russia \u2014 inside vape canisters. She pleaded guilty on July 7 and now faces up to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Few U.S. officials take the Russian prosecutors\u2019 allegations at face value; the prevailing view is that both Whelan and Griner were snatched as hostages for exactly the kind of swap now under consideration, or as bargaining chips for lifting U.S. sanctions on Russia. \u201cThe Russian security services watched Griner closely and knew they could compromise her,\u201d a former U.S. intelligence officer told Yahoo News. \u201cShe\u2019s a Black gay woman who could be portrayed as carrying drugs, and they waited until she departed. This was not legitimate law enforcement but cynical power games by the Kremlin.\u201d John Sipher, the former deputy head of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/the-apprentice-book-excerpt-at-cias-russia-house-growing-alarm-about-2016-election-interference\/2018\/09\/18\/51eb1732-b5c5-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201cRussia House\u201d at the CIA\" class=\"link\">\u201cRussia House\u201d at the CIA<\/a>, said Whelan would have been unlikely to be recruited by any U.S. intelligence service owing to his compromised history: He was given a bad-conduct discharge from the Marine Corps after being court-martialed on larceny-related offenses in 2008.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div class=\"caas-figure-with-pb\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container caas-img-loader\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Viktor Bout arrives at Westchester County Airport in White Plains, N.Y., in 2010.\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/02101326\/901718b0-0f4b-11ed-bf2a-e3f473f7dd71\" class=\"caas-img\" \/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\">Viktor Bout arrives at Westchester County Airport in White Plains, N.Y., in 2010. (U.S. Department of Justice via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Even by the Kremlin\u2019s suspect characterization of Whelan and Griner, the allegations against Bout are far worse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the late 1990s,\u201d Jonathan Winer, a senior official in the State Department during the Clinton administration who tracked Bout\u2019s movements, told Yahoo News, \u201cBout was the No. 2 target for the United States, after Osama bin Laden.\u201d In fact, the infamous arms dealer, widely known as the \u201cmerchant of death,\u201d has even been accused of arming al-Qaida.<\/p>\n<p>Since the collapse of the Soviet Union until his capture in a 2008 Drug Enforcement Administration sting operation in Bangkok, Bout supplied a rogue\u2019s gallery of governments and militias with guns, ammunition and aircraft. Nicolas Cage played a thinly veiled version of him in the 2005 film \u201cLord of War,\u201d although the real-life version\u2019s antics were more cinematically uncanny. Even Bout\u2019s aliases \u2014 \u201cViktor Budd,\u201d \u201cViktor Butt\u201d and, simply, \u201cBoris\u201d \u2014<em>\u00a0<\/em>might have stretched credulity for a Bond villain.<\/p>\n<p>Bout was chummy with a succession of African dictators, including Libya\u2019s Moammar Gadhafi, Rwanda\u2019s Paul Kagame, Zaire\u2019s Mobutu Sese Seko and Liberia\u2019s Charles Taylor, the latter of whom paid him in conflict diamonds and whose child soldiers operated the antique Antonov cargo planes that Bout sold him. Warlord Sam \u201cMosquito\u201d Bockarie committed crimes against humanity in Sierra Leone with Bout-proffered weapons. Some of these clients would object to Bout\u2019s apparent racism and peremptory behavior: a pushy Russian in the midst of anticolonial (or postcolonial) leaders. But that hardly affected his bottom line or their willingness to enrich it.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container caas-img-loader noheight\"><img class=\"caas-img caas-lazy has-preview\" alt=\"Moammar Gadhafi in Paris in 2007.\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/02101345\/e25c8a00-0f4c-11ed-9b5f-4e402794c1e5\" src \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Moammar Gadhafi in Paris in 2007.\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/02101345\/e25c8a00-0f4c-11ed-9b5f-4e402794c1e5\" class=\"caas-img\" \/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\">Moammar Gadhafi in Paris in 2007. (Eric Ryan\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Tajikistan-born weapons merchant could play both sides of any war to his advantage. He equipped the Taliban with an air force before 9\/11 and also sent weapons to their mortal enemy, Ahmad Shah Massoud, the commander of the Northern Alliance and onetime Afghan defense minister, with whom he liked to hunt the finely horned Marco Polo sheep of the Pamir Mountains. Both the Taliban and Massoud evidently knew their broker was double-dealing, but they put up with it because they had no choice, as one Bout associate <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2009\/10\/16\/the-merchant-of-death\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:later recounted to his biographers\" class=\"link\">later recounted to his biographers<\/a>: \u201cNo one else would deliver the packages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Astonishingly, even after being hunted by the U.S. government for years, Bout\u2019s flagship company Irbis (\u201csnow leopard\u201d in Russian) even secretly acted as a private airlift courier for supplies intended for the U.S. military and contractors in occupied Iraq in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>For all Bout\u2019s blood-boltered infamy, some former national security officials think the Biden administration made the right call. \u201cIt\u2019s a trade that has to be made, despite all the pitfalls,\u201d according to Marc Polymeropoulos, who oversaw the CIA\u2019s clandestine operations in Europe and Eurasia. \u201cThe pressure from the families on the White House is immense.\u201d Polymeropoulos acknowledged that the trade would amount to \u201crewarding terrible Russian behavior\u201d \u2014 equating a notorious international arms trafficker with Whelan and Griner \u2014 but that the cost would be worth it. \u201cMake no mistake, the Americans have no hope of release save for this swap. Also, let\u2019s not forget that the Israelis have for decades swapped Palestinian terrorists for their imprisoned soldiers, and sometimes just their remains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sipher agrees. \u201cFirst, it\u2019s a hard policy call, and I\u2019m glad that Americans that were wrongly held as hostages will be freed. I understand why an American president makes such a deal. However, we should admit that we played Vladimir Putin\u2019s game. He got what he wanted in his typical bullying manner. He knows he can push the West around and will do it until he is stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container caas-img-loader noheight\"><img class=\"caas-img caas-lazy has-preview\" alt=\"Brittney Griner in court in Moscow.\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/02101350\/59f3bb70-0f4c-11ed-8d9d-c2a54e0c0914\" src \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brittney Griner in court in Moscow.\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/02101350\/59f3bb70-0f4c-11ed-8d9d-c2a54e0c0914\" class=\"caas-img\" \/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\">Brittney Griner in court in Moscow on Wednesday. (Washington Post via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The U.S. sanctioned Bout in 2004 due to his gunrunning to Liberia; a year later, the Treasury Department\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned four of his associates and 30 of his companies.<\/p>\n<p>According to the 2008 sealed indictment against Bout, filed in the Southern District of New York, he agreed to provide advanced weapons systems to FARC, the Colombian terrorist organization, knowing that they would be used to target Americans and U.S. military personnel.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian \u201cassembled a fleet of cargo airplanes capable of transporting weapons and military equipment to various parts of the world, including Africa, South America and the Middle East,\u201d the indictment read. Everything from AK-47s to attack helicopters wound up in the holds of Bout\u2019s cargo planes, of which there were scores, under different national flaggings. He maintained the largest private fleet of post-Soviet cargo aircraft in the world at one point, administering it under a veneer of legitimacy by transporting food, medicine and other licit goods along with lethal contraband.<\/p>\n<p>Bout was found guilty in 2011 on all four counts of the indictment: conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, conspiracy to kill officers and employees of the U.S., conspiracy to acquire and use antiaircraft missiles, and conspiracy to provide material support or resources to a terrorist organization. He is now in the 10th year of a 25-year sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Hain, the former minister of state for Africa at the British Foreign Office, told the London Sunday Telegraph in 2002 that Bout was \u201csupplying the Taliban and al-Qaida,\u201d an allegation that Bout always denied, portraying himself as an honest businessman toting innocent wares such as textiles and furniture to places like Afghanistan. (It was Hain who coined Bout\u2019s unshakable moniker, the \u201cmerchant of death.\u201d)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container caas-img-loader noheight\"><img class=\"caas-img caas-lazy has-preview\" alt=\"Peter Hain in London in 2019.\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/02101356\/51820f90-0f4d-11ed-8af6-d53e6d7cc7fe\" src \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Peter Hain in London in 2019.\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/02101356\/51820f90-0f4d-11ed-8af6-d53e6d7cc7fe\" class=\"caas-img\" \/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\">British politician Peter Hain in 2019. (Wiktor Szymanowicz\/Future Publishing via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Bout has for years also loudly denied any connection to the Russian government or its military intelligence service, still known by its Soviet-era acronym, the GRU.<\/p>\n<p>However, in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Merchant-Death-Money-Planes-Possible\/dp\/047026196X\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possibile\" class=\"link\">Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possibile<\/a>,\u201d a 2007 chronicle of Bout\u2019s malign activities, authors Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun quote one of his associates: \u201cThe GRU gave him three airplanes to start the business. The planes, countless numbers of them, were sitting there doing nothing. They decided, let\u2019s make this commercial. They gave Viktor the aircraft and in exchange collected a part of the charter money. It was a setup from the beginning.\u201d An unnamed analyst who worked with British intelligence also told the authors that MI6, the U.K.&#8217;s foreign intelligence service, \u201cnever had any doubt Bout was GRU material.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.N. officials placed Bout&#8217;s earlier career as that of an interpreter for Russian peacekeepers in Angola; he had trained at the Soviet Military Institute of Foreign Languages in Moscow, a favored stalking ground for GRU recruitment. Military translators are often GRU officers stationed under diplomatic cover owing to the spy service\u2019s polyglot job requirement. Bout has said he speaks six languages. His bodyguards in his heyday were also reportedly all veterans from GRU Spetsnaz, or special forces.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s military intelligence agency has come under international scrutiny in the last several years, particularly after U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller concluded that a team of now-indicted GRU officers in Moscow were responsible for the hack-and-leak operation against the Democratic Party email servers in 2016, with the express intent of influencing the outcome of that year\u2019s presidential contest.<\/p>\n<p>GRU operatives have been busy outside the digital domain too.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container caas-img-loader noheight\"><img class=\"caas-img caas-lazy has-preview\" alt=\"The headquarters of the Russian General Staff\u2019s Main Intelligence Department.\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/02101402\/9f343d20-0f4e-11ed-8e67-7dd3438b4e7e\" src \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The headquarters of the Russian General Staff\u2019s Main Intelligence Department.\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/02101402\/9f343d20-0f4e-11ed-8e67-7dd3438b4e7e\" class=\"caas-img\" \/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\">The headquarters of the GRU in Moscow in 2016. (Natalia Kolesnikova\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Operatives attached to an elite assassination-and-sabotage cell known as Unit 29155 were sent to Salisbury, England, in 2018 to poison a GRU defector, Sergei Skripal, along with his daughter, Yulia, with a Russian-manufactured nerve agent.<\/p>\n<p>Unit 29155 has also lately been linked to a string of earlier mysterious poisonings over the last decade, including that of another arms dealer, the Bulgarian Emilian Gebrev, who succumbed to Skripal-like symptoms in 2015 along with his son and his factory manager near his office in central Sofia. A series of explosions of factories and depots elsewhere in Bulgaria and also the Czech Republic, both of them NATO and EU member states, have been attributed to Unit 29155 operatives, leading to expulsions of Russian intelligence officers from embassies in both countries. Tellingly, these sites are believed to have contained Soviet-era ammunition bound for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Given the unprecedented access Bout had to surplus weapons and ammunition stocks, not to mention the enormous Antonov freighters scattered like metal carcasses across airfields of the fallen Soviet empire, it beggars belief that he was not in some way linked to Russian intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>That would certainly account for why Vladimir Putin\u2019s regime has so desperately sought for his repatriation to Russia and why the U.S. side apparently believes Bout would be a tempting trade amid caustic tensions between the two countries. The Kremlin, said Winer, the former State Department official, \u201cmoved heaven and earth\u201d to first prevent Bout\u2019s extradition to the U.S. from Thailand and then to secure his release from prison. The Russian Foreign Ministry has classed him as a political prisoner and, for more than a decade after his capture, serially raised his release with Washington in some kind of exchange. \u201cThe big question was whether he was basically state-sponsored or a rogue operator whom the Russian government found useful,\u201d Winer told Yahoo News. \u201cWas he an agent of the GRU when we caught him?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container caas-img-loader noheight\"><img class=\"caas-img caas-lazy has-preview\" alt=\"Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin.\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/02101408\/45c9f5d0-0f4f-11ed-a7d7-d68c5c7ddbf3\" src \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin.\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/02101408\/45c9f5d0-0f4f-11ed-a7d7-d68c5c7ddbf3\" class=\"caas-img\" \/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\">Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Thursday. (Pavel Byrkin\/Sputnik\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Given Bout\u2019s conviction in a U.S. court for aiding and abetting FARC, it\u2019s a slightly awkward question for the Biden administration, now facing a mounting chorus to label Russia itself a state sponsor of terrorism. On Thursday, the Senate unanimously adopted a nonbinding resolution urging Secretary of State Antony Blinken to designate Moscow as such.<\/p>\n<p>The text of the resolution not only cites Russian military atrocities against civilians in Chechnya, Georgia, Syria and Ukraine but also names the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/what-is-the-wagner-group-and-are-they-in-ukraine-163313813.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Wagner Group;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Wagner Group<\/a>, a notorious mercenary outfit. Financed by the U.S.- and EU-sanctioned oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin \u2014 a catering magnate and architect of the St. Petersburg \u201ctroll farm\u201d implicated by Mueller in the 2016 U.S. election interference scheme \u2014 the Wagner Group has committed \u201cserious human rights abuses in Ukraine, Syria, Libya, the Central African Republic, Sudan and Mozambique,\u201d according to the European Union. The allegations include torture and extrajudicial killings. The Senate also accuses the group of having tried to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the start of Russia\u2019s invasion in February.<\/p>\n<p>The Treasury Department sanctioned the Wagner Group as a \u201cRussian Ministry of Defense proxy force.\u201d The mercenaries maintain a camp in the Russian region of Krasnodar, right next door to a well-guarded training facility for GRU Spetsnaz<em>, <\/em>of which<em>\u00a0<\/em>Wagner\u2019s leader, Dmitry Utkin, was once a brigade commander. According to Polymeropoulos, the former CIA officer, \u201cthere was never any doubt that Wagner functions as an arm of the GRU.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Might the same be said of the man now sitting in a medium-security penitentiary in Marion, Ill., awaiting his plane back to Moscow?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will try to lock me up for life,\u201d the then-45-year-old Bout <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2012\/03\/05\/disarming-viktor-bout\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:told the New Yorker\" class=\"link\">told the New Yorker<\/a> before his sentencing. \u201cBut I\u2019ll get back to Russia. I don\u2019t know when. But I\u2019m still young. Your empire will collapse and I\u2019ll get out of here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to press reports, the U.S. government is prepared to swap notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout for Paul Whelan and Brittney Griner, two Americans currently jailed in Russia.Whelan, a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1584698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1584609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1584609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1584698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}