Wouldn’t surprise me if that why Putin did that.
Putin: "Congratulations, comrade Edward! Here's your uniform!"
That would be priceless.
Julian Assange?
I can’t say that I approve of what Putin did, because I can’t know if the FeeBIes might be watching.
That Snowden must have big, brass ones, though.
Who else has done more single-handedly to expose the Deep State? The list of contenders is VERY short.
If Snowden does get drafted into the Russian army, they’d better keep him away from sensitive data. Old habits die hard.
Certainly can’t have him running around exposing more US, EU, NATO BS.
Putin is well aware of what Snowden knows.
To be a fly on the wall with their many conversations.....
LOL. Must be comforting to Snowden to realize he’s nothing but Putin’s troll fodder.
I thought the same thing.
Of course, he is probably already working.
Now Snowden can be appointed to the Diplomatic Service for Russia, and be immune to prosecution here in the States.
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.
We don’t know the conditions of ‘grant’. Was he threatened… become a citizen or go to jail/ or back to the US ?
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 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
Hi.
Has anyone heard from Julian Assange recently?
Like Snowden, the state wants him dead.
Pamala?
5.56mm
Snowden completely embarrassed Clapper for lying about spying on Americans. Good on Russia.