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Advocacy group seeks new White House post on hostage cases

FILE - American Journalist James Foley poses for a photo in Boston on May 27, 2011. Foley, a freelance journalist, was among a group of Westerners murdered in Islamic State captivity in Syria in 2014. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File) FILE - Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine who was arrested for alleged spying, listens to the verdict in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court in Moscow, Russia, June 15, 2020. The Biden administration should create a new position at the White House National Security Council to focus on cases of Americans wrongfully detained in foreign countries. That's according to a report from an advocacy group, which recommends funding an interagency office to help free hostages. The U.S. has been trying to bring home Whelan, but those efforts have so far not been successful. (Sofia Sandurskaya/Moscow News Agency photo via AP, File) FILE - WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner is escorted from a courtroom after a hearing in Khimki just outside Moscow, Russia, Aug. 4, 2022. The Biden administration should create a new position at the White House National Security Council to focus on cases of Americans wrongfully detained in foreign countries. That's according to a report from an advocacy group, which recommends funding an interagency office to help free hostages. The U.S. has been trying to bring home Griner and another American jailed in Russia, Paul Whelan, but those efforts have so far not been successful. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)