That said, I was following that chat live for a while, and some of the answers came back pretty quickly, not to mention reading fairly spontaneously, IMO. Like that bit about Presidents investigating themselves after the fact -- what lawyer would add that?
How do you know it was Snowden responding? How do you know it wasn’t? His legal counsel is what..Chinese? Americans? We don’t know...and that makes him all the more a risk.
There were plenty other avenues Snowden could have gone , even his mother stated so, and she works for the government. His father too.....
I sure as heck would not have gone to a Communist Country...,that has no freedoms/ few civil rights, and squawk about the what’s happening in the my country concerning national security issues.... Not ever!
BTW I have family members working for the Gov. I well know he had other options....this guy wants the glory and the show...and has another agenda in mind. I have my opinions on that but as with opinions..they are a dime a dozen.