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09 Jun 2013, 7:48 pm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/ju ... ni=Network

his interview is on the link


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09 Jun 2013, 8:52 pm

he is a very brave man



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09 Jun 2013, 9:47 pm

Good for this fellow. I wish more government workers and contractors were as brave.



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10 Jun 2013, 4:19 am

Very articulate. I especially admired his contrast in coming forth, not remaining a "secret source" compared with the secrecy his act dispelled. I remember Watergate and this is no less exhilarating.


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10 Jun 2013, 9:04 am

Good for Snowden. One of these days our Government is going to learn that The People are the real sovereign, not the weasles and chiselers in Washington. They are a worthless and base lot. Most of the people in government who control our business have not the skill to run a lemonade stand at a profit.

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10 Jun 2013, 9:34 am

I wonder if we'll see him defect to 'liberal' (ha ha) China?

Hope you like Tsingtao, friend.



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10 Jun 2013, 4:01 pm

He chose Hong Kong because it's autonomous and remains relatively liberal and yet it is under Chinese protection, meaning that China must approve of the extradition.



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10 Jun 2013, 4:10 pm

he wont truly be safe until hes in Russia

he should contact the Russian embassy and get a flight out of there he is still at risk of just "disappearing"



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10 Jun 2013, 6:00 pm

xenon13 wrote:
He chose Hong Kong because it's autonomous and remains relatively liberal and yet it is under Chinese protection, meaning that China must approve of the extradition.


The relatively liberal nature that Hong Kong had during British rule is going down the toilet, and it's being governed by Beijing in an increasingly illiberal way.

Frankly, he's knackered. He's going to have to give himself up to the U.S. or become an agent of the PRC government.

Why is it that these kooks claim that they are fighting for freedom and human rights, then get into bed with regimes that are violently repressive towards their own people? See Iran, Russia, PRC, etc...



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10 Jun 2013, 6:03 pm

chris5000 wrote:
he wont truly be safe until hes in Russia

he should contact the Russian embassy and get a flight out of there he is still at risk of just "disappearing"


Russia is run by thugs. Why should he be safe there. Unless, you mean safe from extradition.

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10 Jun 2013, 6:06 pm

ruveyn wrote:
Russia is run by thugs. Why should he be safe there. Unless, you mean safe from extradition.


I can't really see any outcome that's going to be good for him.



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10 Jun 2013, 7:29 pm

ruveyn wrote:
chris5000 wrote:
he wont truly be safe until hes in Russia

he should contact the Russian embassy and get a flight out of there he is still at risk of just "disappearing"


Russia is run by thugs. Why should he be safe there. Unless, you mean safe from extradition.

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Russia has no extradition treaty with the united states and will never send someone back to the united states. there are a handful of people that did murders in the us then immediately went to Russia and are still free to this day a few even wrote books about it



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10 Jun 2013, 7:31 pm

chris5000 wrote:
Russia has no extradition treaty with the united states and will never send someone back to the united states.


If he goes to Russia, he will be at the mercy of a very, very nasty regime. He is a former NSA agent, remember.

And they will have a lot of questions to ask him. If he doesn't comply, do you think they will still be so pleasant to him?



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10 Jun 2013, 8:38 pm

called it they already killed him
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22850901



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10 Jun 2013, 8:39 pm

Tequila wrote:
chris5000 wrote:
Russia has no extradition treaty with the united states and will never send someone back to the united states.


If he goes to Russia, he will be at the mercy of a very, very nasty regime. He is a former NSA agent, remember.

And they will have a lot of questions to ask him. If he doesn't comply, do you think they will still be so pleasant to him?

he would have been more useful to them alive than dead unlike the other way around for the united states thats why the us goverment already killed him



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11 Jun 2013, 9:42 am

theirs a petition to pardon him here below
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petiti ... n/Dp03vGYD


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