Posted on 09/26/2022 5:24:31 PM PDT by RandFan
@Breaking911
BREAKING: Putin has granted Russian citizenship to U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden - SKY
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He has a brighter future than Americans do under dick-tater Biden and his horde of Marxist flying pet monkeys.
Ooops now he will be drafted and fight in Ukraine...
Once a traitor always a traitor.
Doesn’t make a difference. The US and Russia signed a treaty of Mutual Legal Assistance in criminal matters on June 17, 1999.
He can still be extradited and prosecuted.
wy69
I don’t think the US or Russia are being polite these days.
I am sympathetic to Snowden, but open to both sides of discussion. Did he go too far? Probably, but was there any other path? Is he a hero? Maybe, but more needs to be disclosed. He probably had no other choice than to defect to Russia and had few if any other real choices. Look what has happened to Assad.
I do remember the Snowden posters on the wall in the security offices of government buildings. They highlighted his alleged treason. They wanted him badly!
But what about whistleblowers? They really have no protection from the deep state unless they back the liberal agenda.
Q-kooks viewed Snowden as a black hat. But the source of much of their propaganda likely came from black-agencies. Snowden was definitely a thorn for the U.S. security services since he exposed their unsavory habits and tools.
Yes, given what I know, Trump should have pardoned both Snowden and Assage. Or at least given some kind of limited immunity for their complete testimony. Deep State representatives like McConnell and Graham wanted to discourage these actions. Meanwhile, we speed toward “1984,” and our freedoms hemorrhage away.
When is he shipped out to the Ukraine front?
Turn about is fair play.
Exposing the surveillance deep state is not treason to those who see how far we’ve gone from a country of free people.
I was furious at Snowden when he first came out. I considered him a first class traitor. Now, I consider so many as traitors after Ronald Reagan. Not so much Snowden and definitely not Assange. Assange isn’t even American after all, so how can he be?
You think Russia is a free country. How adorable.
Maybe he’ll be barbecued in a Russian armored vehicle soon.
Katherine the Great offered German and Dutch anabaptists (Evangelical Christians) free land and citizenship in southern Russia and Ukraine. They became the Kulaks of the Russian Empire
He exposed a lot of stuff our own government was doing to us. For that he gets a pass from me!
Tsk, tsk, tsk, will he now be sent to the Ukrainian front to fight for Putin?
Maybe he can say hello to that woman basketball player, whatever his name was.
He applied for citizenship nearly immediately after Russia changed the law that previously required all applicants for citizenship to relinquish (or at least attempt to relinquish) their former citizenship(s). So no, it wasn’t just offered to him, he asked for it via the normal application process. He is not required to lose US citizenship so he will now be a dual citizen.
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