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In reply to the discussion: Snowden: Vladimir Putin must be called to account on surveillance just like Obama [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)oh wait, you can't ask Litvinenko, Russian intelligence poisoned him with Polonium in London because he annoyed Putin one time too many. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko
Khodorkovsky will happily tell you how ruthless Putin is with those who criticize him, and he was a billionaire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khodorkovsky#Relationship_with_Vladimir_Putin . As will the scores of reporters who criticized the regime who are now dead. Oops, they can't talk now either.
If this isn't part of a plan orchestrated with Putin and the Russian government, Snowden is as good as dead.
By the way, intelligence officers do things like "11th dimensional chess", and as Putin said during his response, we're dealing with two of them.