So they “trapped” him in Russia. They could of trapped him in Cuba. They had a better chance of extradition from Russia than Cuba. A fugitive getting his passport suspended is common so this is a semantic word game for sympathy.
No one dragged him kicking and screaming into planes. He chose to first fly to China and from there to Russia.
He stole over million secret documents and gave these to China and Russia because he is a traitorous SOB.
It just gets more confusin’ every day!
Snowden’s not trapped anywhere. He can come home to the US any time he likes.
I think he also dreamed of becoming a national Political Hero before the obvious reality of Treason settled in.
Snowden could have flown to Ecuador BEFORE he flew to Hong Kong. In fact, journalist Glenn Greenwald has lived right next door to Ecuador, in Brazil, for two decades.
Fact - at that point in time, Snowden had no idea if Ecuador would give him asylum or not.
Julian Assange got temporary asylum in the Ecuador London Embassy because Assange was in the politically sensitive secret information business.
All Snowden had to sell was CIA and NSA spy craft.
Snowden's "information" was nothing more than billions of completely useless emails and phone conversations.
Snowden should have gotten a medal
On Nov. 20, 2004, Poitras was in Baghdad filming “My Country, My Country.” The film depicts Iraqi elections from the perspective of an Iraqi doctor, who criticized the U.S. occupation yet hoped democracy would take root in his homeland.
Members of a U.S. Army National Guard unit from Oregon reported seeing a “white female” holding a camera on a rooftop just before they were attacked. David Roustum, 22, an Army National Guardsman from West Seneca, New York, was killed. Several troops were wounded. Some guardsmen who saw Poitras suspected she had a heads-up about the attack and didn’t share that information with American forces because she wanted to film it. If true, Poitras would have broken U.S. criminal law.”
A dually he took an Aeroflot flight to Hong Kong so he was in Russian hands from the outset.
Snowden provided a valuable service in revealing how thoroughly crooked our government was and is. It’s hard for me to see him in a negative light.
all of that once his original handlers in the CCP tossed him out of China.
The Eddy Snowjob story starts at the beginning in China, not in the middle of the ending in Russia.