nothing says they have to let him in.

They must be missing him and want him to come 'home'.

Count me among them.

while he was staying in the Russian consulate in Hong Kong, and the Chinese got when that reporter from the SCMP interviewed him.

He thinks his encryption is so tough, but things move fast in the cyber-world. It's rather like imagining that your Tandy computer with the a, b AND c drives is the fastest thing on the block!!! Maybe, for a brief and shining moment it was, but that moment has passed.

I think he misjudged how this all would go down, and I think he erred in placing his faith in the Russians. Unlike some people, it's my personal belief that he had something going on with them from the get-go, maybe even since he worked in Yokosuka, Japan (and vacationed in HK). I think he might have been flipped. I don't think he truly cares about "internet privacy." I think he's part of a long con.

The Russians may have sold him on the whole "You can pretend you're a whistleblower" trick, and he believed them. I think he's stuck now, and he's getting sick of Moscow. Not my idea of paradise, that's for sure. He'd better work hard on learning Russian, because he's going to have to adapt.

I agree with you, and maintain that he was turned during one of his many trips abroad, and I never thought of him as a "whistleblower", and eventually the American people caught up as well. I still can't help but wonder why he's so anxious to get out now? He's a hero in Mother Russia. However, I see your point about "placing his faith in the Russians".

I also agree that it was never about "internet privacy". Remember when he thought leakers "should be shot in the balls"?

Saxby Chambliss says Snowden should "hang" for his "crimes" without due process...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141151783

So a Senator who was the Vice Chancellor on the Senate Committee for Intelligence says you should hang before any due process and you think Snowden should just come home without conditions!?



This is proof positive why Snowden was wise to run asap after his disclosures. There's no "justice" here.

I don't believe he intentionally committed espionage, though that was an end result of his actions. He did a really stupid thing by leaving the country and exposing this via Wikileaks. There are Senators and House members that would have listened to him and brought the information forward. He could have went to someone like Ron or Rand Paul or someone like Alan Grayson or Bernie Sanders. He would have been completely protected by whistle blower laws then.

Idle speculations about Snowden's feelings and boilerplate drivel from his lawyer. I don't really see why it was put in the Front section.

Now that he's gone silent, they attempt to recycle film reviews and repackage his previous comments.
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repeating that over and over does not make it so.