>>Yeah, like that’s going to happen when the eye of everyone in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world is focussed on Mr. Snowden at this moment in time. <<
Oh, really? Exactly where is he then? What hotel, what room?
Are you so sure he hasn’t already been picked up?
How would we know? And how long would it take, if he did disappear, before conspiracy theorists start theorizing that it’s our government, not the Chinese, that have him (whether true or not)?
You seriously don’t think the Chinese are trying to find him right this moment? I suspect they know exactly where he is, and are laying plans for his transit to mainland China in the very near future. Hong Kong was not the wisest choice, in my opinion.
Look, you sound so certain that his treason did no damage to our national security. All I’m saying is that you can’t know that, and that in the end it could do serious damage.
And I do think our government surveillance has run amuck. The question is whether or not he behaved treasonously in exposing the extent of surveillance. I don’t think there’s any question about that. He did. And if the Chinese get hold of him, what he’s revealed so far might pale in comparison to what they are able to squeeze out of him later.
“And if the Chinese get hold of him, what he’s revealed so far might pale in comparison to what they are able to squeeze out of him later.”
Well, we’ll see if that ever happens, that the Chinese swoop down, whisk him away and interrogate him for all the world to see. And I’m sure that they are going to do this while Mr. Snowden is in Hong Kong, which fights mainland China tooth and nail in order to preserve freedom of speech. Heck, the Chinese may very well have already hacked all of our data mining anyhow.
“The question is whether or not he behaved treasonously”
So did our founding fathers. It all depends on whose ox is being gored.