State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters that Rodman would not be traveling on behalf of the U.S. government and 'anything other than negotiating further through the established channel is likely to complicate and hinder those release efforts.'
His contributions to the negotiations -- if Russia even chooses to pay attention to him -- will be minimal, experts say.
“I just don’t know what they’re going to talk about,” said Pomeranz, the director of the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute, which studies Eurasia. “I don’t think Dennis Rodman can crack through the fences of the Russian legal system.” Gilbert pointed out that the Biden Administration has been carefully consistent in jointly demanding for the release of Griner and Paul Whelan, another American considered"wrongfully detained" in Russia. Rodman did not mention Whelan in his comments.
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