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Breaking News:
Young guy from Hawaii would rather face jail in America than spend his life living in the craphole known as Moscow.
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I have two words for him: Screw him.
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Do your memoirs, book deals, movies, and retirement from where you landed while trying to find a place to enjoy your freedom. Enjoy your fond memories of this den of evil and iniquity that was once your home—but enjoy them from a distance.
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“Fair Trial” = “I get off and get a medal”
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Certain individual who claims to be a journalist would love to give him a medal.
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Let his a$$ stay in Russia.
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Exactly, he wants to precondition his trial on terms that are acceptable to him alone. I have no doubt that he wants out of Russia, but I think this is more about his waning headlines than any true desire to cut a realistic deal.
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Edward Snowden should only be tried after all those who violated Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights are in prison.
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He’ll get a fair trial and a nice long prison sentence to go with it.
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Except, I’m not buying this at all.
It’s coming from a Russian national, lawyer be damned it’s nothing like it is with lawyers in the US or anywhere in the West, it’s way too convenient in time to the assassination and massed funeral review of Boris Nemtsov, it’s way too convenient a distraction from focus on Putin not just for that but for eastern Ukraine and the continuing squeeze of the west’s sanctions. And finally, nothing we’ve learned or seen or heard about or from Snowden suggests that he’s anywhere near this naive. He’d be jailed by his own country for somewhere from 25 years minimum to the balance of his life,maybe 50 years.
So, I call bullshit.
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I very much suspect this has nothing at all to do with Snowden and everything to do with the interests of Putin in creating distractions at this moment.
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I wonder if he thinks Greenwald continuing to publish details about foreign intelligence gathering will help his case.
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Maybe the glibertarians assured him that he would be greeted in the US as a liberator.
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If it’s not true then I would be worried about becoming a false flag if I were Snowden. Right now he’s just a chip in Putin’s game.
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Having recently watched citizen4, Ed Snowden has demonstrated a specific example of what a complete loss of privacy looks like.
There are some really good lawyers— I am thinking of the calibre of Plato Cacheris, who, no knock on them, are excellent at defending spies, that Snowden can get and no doubt has already retained. The trick is to force the government into a trial where it will have to reveal secrets that have not yet been revealed to the public that it wants to remain secret— then the plea offers come. BY giving most of his chips to the press already, and then going to Russia where his hosts no doubt got hold of most of those he had left, Snowden may have given up his most valuable currency— secrets that the government does not want revealed.
What!?! Living in Putin’s Russia didn’t turn out to be all he promised? Better luck next time.
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If Snowden is to be believed he gave everything away so it’s out of his hands.
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Yeah, he ought to get a Petraeus deal: slap on the wrist for exposing govt spying without a warrant.
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