This is a sorry attempt to make us believe he's not, for years, been in the employ of Vladimir.

It's also a way to stump for the new movie coming out, which will likely give Eddie a little payday. A very SMALL payday, if the reviews are accurate:

Snowden’s attack on his Russian hosts comes as the Oliver Stone film Snowden – based on the whistleblower’s leaking of the NSA’s electronic spying programmes – has opened to generally poor reviews. The Guardian’s critic Benjamin Lee described the film as misjudged and outdated. “Virtually every directorial choice is aimed at making Snowden’s life seem more conventional and it results in the majority of scenes feeling like a lifeless construct,” he wrote.

He's living in suburban Moscow. I'm pretty sure the USA knows exactly where he's living--which apartment building, which apartment, where he shops, what sort of car he drives (if he drives at all). Secret, schmecret!


He sounds like a classic "concern troll" in these missives!

However, his lawyers say that they hope to secure a presidential pardon before Barack Obama leaves office in January, and commentators have noted that Snowden has criticised his Russian hosts several times in the buildup to his attempt to gain a pardon. In July, it was reported that Snowden had posted a string of tweets in which he described recent Russian legislation, which criminalises support for terrorism on the internet, as unworkable.

“Mass surveillance doesn’t work. This bill will take money and liberty from every Russian without improving safety. It should not be signed,” he tweeted. “Duma member says most representatives were against Big Brother law, but voted ‘yes’ out of fear.”

On Saturday, Snowden said: “I can’t fix the human rights situation in Russia, and realistically my priority is to fix my own country first, because that’s the one to which I owe the greatest loyalty. But though the chances are it will make no difference, maybe it’ll help.”

Poor Eddie--he'd better hit those books and work on his Russian grammar and vocabulary, because he's the 21st Century's Kim Philby. Too clever by half, Ed, too clever by half. I'm betting all that money the Russians slid to him when he was living in expensive Europe and pricey Japan doesn't seem like it was worth it, now. Tsk, tsk.

ignore. Before he fled with the stolen files he indeed spent time in Europe and then Japan. It's likely that he was approached and "turned" while in Europe.