Posted on 09/26/2022 9:57:16 AM PDT by VAFreedom
At least he is still alive—he would have had an accident or hanged himself if he had stayed in the USA/
It is unfortunate that Trump didn’t pardon and grant citizenship to Julian Assange who was instrumental in exposing the deep state.
One wonders why Trump chose to protect the deep state and persecute Assange.
Snowden has been out-of-the-loop and in a vacuum for 10+ years.
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Because there is no internet in Russia?
In 2013, Bolton told Fox News that Snowden "committed treason" and "he ought to swing from a tall oak tree."
The Deep State has gotten even worse since Snowden helped expose them.
His warnings have been ignored—but he tried....
We don’t know the conditions of ‘grant’. Was he threatened… become a citizen or go to jail/ or back to the US ?
whoops that was a Bolton quote. Same difference. Here’s Pompeo on Snowden:
“He should be brought back from Russia and given due process, and I think the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence,” Pompeo said in February.
Edward Snowden is brilliant and he has the intellect to quickly understand and absorb the latest technology.
This guy ruined his life. He should have been in a non=-extradition country before he disclosed.
To this day, we don't know if he was a whistleblower, or an intelligence asset.
For what it’s worth, Kim Philby lived out his life a miserable alcoholic. The Russia government gave him medals, but it seems like he didn’t like living there.
Why don’t the Putin worshippers on FR move to Russia and get citizenship?
Snowden is a talented man who could develop his skills and likely has done so rather than waste his life away.
Snowden appears to be doing well in Russia with his wife Lindsay Mills.
>>In April 2020, an amendment to Russian nationality law allowing foreigners to obtain Russian citizenship without renouncing a foreign citizenship came into force.[301] In November 2020, Snowden announced that he and his wife, Lindsay, who was expecting their son in late December, were applying for dual U.S.-Russian citizenship in order not to be separated from him “in this era of pandemics and closed borders.”[302] On September 26, 2022, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree granting Russian citizenship to Snowden.[8]
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>>In August 2020, a court filing by the Department of Justice indicated that Snowden had collected a total of over $1.2 million in speaking fees in addition to advances on books since 2013.[419] In September 2021, Yahoo! Finance reported that for 67 speaking appearances by video link from September 2015–May 2020, Snowden had earned more than $1.2 million. In March 2021, Iowa State University paid him $35,000 for one such speech, his first at a public U.S. college since February 2017, when the University of Pittsburgh paid him $15,000.[19]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Teleconference_speaking_engagements
I’m amazed at such comments.
Yes, Snowden he’s a smart man, but he only knew what he knew because he was INSIDE the NSA. he knew the organizational structure, he knew the state of their technology, he knew how decisions were made and what programs existed.
Snowden left the NSA 10 years ago to go into distant exile. While he has great insight, and partially due directly to his revelations, all the details of NSA operations have changed completely.
Hi.
Has anyone heard from Julian Assange recently?
Like Snowden, the state wants him dead.
Pamala?
5.56mm
Snowden has talents of his own independent of knowledge about the NSA which I’m sure is getting along just fine.
Yeah. Much better to be in Russia where no one disappears, gets shot, falls out of a high window, gets hit by a car or contracts polonium poisoning.
Ed Willey – Clinton fundraiser, found dead November 1993 deep in the woods in VA of a gunshot wound to the head. Ruled a suicide. Ed Willey died on the same day his wife Kathleen Willey claimed Bill Clinton groped her in the oval office in the White House. Ed Willey was involved in several Clinton fund raising events.
Witness About To Expose Hillary Clinton Is Missing, Feared Dead November 20th, 2017 Awake Goy Man who threatened to expose Hillary Clinton has gone missing, is feared dead A missing witness who promised to dish the dirt on Hillary Clinton is now feared dead, according to police officials. Professor Joseph Mifsud was one of the people identified as a connection between Russian officials and the Trump campaign.
Gandy Baugh - Attorney for Clinton's friend Dan Lassater, died by jumping out a window of a tall building
Johnny Lawhorn, Jr. – Mechanic, found a check made out to Bill Clinton in the trunk of a car left at his repair shop. He was found dead after his car had hit a utility pole.
Clinton whistleblower dies of "suicide" with knife in chest. December 13, 2017. A celebrity bone surgeon became embroiled in the Clinton Foundation's Haiti controversy when he and another doctor penned a startling 2010 article that exposed the corruption at the heart of the Haitian earthquake relief efforts.
Gotta admit, killing oneself with a knife is a lot more imaginative than poisoning.
Snowden completely embarrassed Clapper for lying about spying on Americans. Good on Russia.
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