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How Snowden escaped
National Post ^ | 08/31/16 | Theresa Tedesco

Posted on 09/07/2016 8:09:51 AM PDT by grumpygresh

The never-been-told story of those two pivotal weeks when the most wanted man in the world was hidden in the depths of a Hong Kong slum.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: snowden; whistleblower
Love him or hate him, his story as a fugitive is fascinating. If we get hitlery, we'll see a lot more whistleblowers seeking asylum.
1 posted on 09/07/2016 8:09:51 AM PDT by grumpygresh
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If we get hitlery, we'll see a lot more whistleblowers seeking asylum.

Yeah, in the Coroner's office

2 posted on 09/07/2016 8:13:01 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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What a coincidence that a story like this comes out just as the Snowden movie is about to open.


3 posted on 09/07/2016 8:26:55 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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Love him or hate him, his story as a fugitive is fascinating. If we get hitlery, we'll see a lot more whistleblowers seeking asylum.

Consider for a moment that Snowden and Assange are in league with Putin, and that Putin and Obama are in league to deny the Clintons control of the Democrat Party.

Or is that tinfoil hat stuff?

4 posted on 09/07/2016 8:43:30 AM PDT by IncPen (Hey Media: Bias = Layoffs)
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“I never intended to end up in Russia, much less choose it,” he said. “When my government learned I had departed Hong Kong en route to Latin America, they cancelled my passport trapping me in a Russian airport.

"Unable to travel and unable to leave, I filed applications for asylum in 21 countries around the world, places like France, and Germany, Austria and Finland. But those countries neither accepted my respective requests nor permitted safe travel onwards.”

5 posted on 09/07/2016 8:50:06 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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fl


6 posted on 09/07/2016 9:03:23 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (A Christian is as a Christian does - "By their works...")
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I think Russia took in Snowden more as payback to the US for taking in all sorts of traitors that the Soviets wanted back during the cold war.

Keeping in mind that Putin is ex-KGB this makes a lot of sense.


7 posted on 09/07/2016 9:06:48 AM PDT by MeganC (JE SUIS CHARLES MARTEL!!!)
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I think Russia took in Snowden more as payback to the US for taking in all sorts of traitors that the Soviets wanted back during the cold war.

Russia and China don't do anything out of altruism. If they helped Snowden then it's because he had something valuable to them to offer as payment. You may never know exactly what that was.

8 posted on 09/07/2016 9:08:56 AM PDT by Lower Deck
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He used the alas Clinton.


9 posted on 09/07/2016 9:09:48 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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If he escaped, he’did be in Brazil or somewhere. He’s a prisoner in Russia.


10 posted on 09/07/2016 9:36:16 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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bump


11 posted on 09/07/2016 12:30:37 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("There's only one issue in the immigration debate; the well-being of the American people."--Trump)
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