Wonder who wrote that statement for him? This guy is a puppet.
Note the format of the date: "1st July 2013." The order of fields is from a non-US locale. But Snowden's computer is, obviously, set to en-us; and he wouldn't naturally write the date like this. Did someone else, for whom this date format is native, write the missive?
This was actually a clue in one of stories of Hercule Poirot.
Doesn’t sound ghost-written to me. Some of it doesn’t make sense.
For example, how would (Obama’s) “deception” and “exile”—how would those things “frighten ... those who would come after me.”?
whom do you think? his FSB handlers...
I say Boo Hoo! To his statement...
.....he was beyond stupid...stupidly arrogant.... to think he could pull this off by negotiating with foreign countries....now he finds himself in Russia whining about “it's Obamas fault I'm here”..... this guy who stepped into his own crap...it will always be someone elses fault he is where he is because someone else didn't give him his “rights”.
Snowden needs to learn the difference between a “Privilege” and a “Right” which obvious he has no understanding of...let alone how the game is played on a stage he was not invited to be on...idiot just ‘assumed’ he was smart enough to “play” a role....well he got one...”A man without a country”.....
If someone ghostwrote a statement for him I would certainly hope to get a better composition than this. No, I have no doubt that he wrote this himself.