Posted on 11/03/2020 4:39:19 PM PST by nickcarraway
Although National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has settled in Russia, he has insisted that his “ultimate goal” is to return to the U.S. But the fugitive now has begun the process of formally pledging loyalty to the Russian state.
“In this era of pandemics and closed borders, we’re applying for dual US-Russian citizenship,” he tweeted Sunday. Mr. Snowden and his wife are Americans, so the real news is that he is pursuing a Russian passport. Moscow already has granted permanent residency to the former NSA contractor.
Vladimir Putin’s government gave Mr. Snowden asylum in 2013, after he fled the U.S. to avoid criminal charges for leaking a massive collection of classified documents. He leads a comfortable life in Russia, earning at least $5 million from a book deal and speaking fees. Mr. Snowden occasionally criticizes the Russian government but appeared alongside Mr. Putin in 2014 to ask about Russian surveillance. His softball question set up a propaganda coup for Moscow.
The disclosure of post-9/11 intelligence gathering received most of the attention when Mr. Snowden handed over stolen data to ideologically sympathetic reporters. But the Snowden disclosures went far beyond that. They revealed, for instance, information about American surveillance of Chinese telecom firm Huawei, which the U.S. considers a national-security threat. U.S. allies like Japan and Australia also were exposed. This helped authoritarian states while damaging free societies.
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I can’t blame him.
Snowden has Dirt on Both Party’s NWO globalist dreams.
Unless Trump get’s re-electected, Snowden stays Russian.
The great Karnak see 10 by 10 cage. What mr Snowden would be staying in if he came back to the United States.
He only has the Russians left to stay free of jail. Interpol And the USG has an arrest warrant out for him.
You are combining two unrelated issues. We have no idea if Snowden was a foreign asset. You think any potential espionage against the U.S. should not be investigated and preemptively pardoned? That’s the full Obama position. Basically, you are saying the United States is the lowest country on earth.
I predict hunter biden is reading this thread .....
When did he learn to read?
Slow (the big guy) taught him how to read Cleveland’s
He wouldn't go there if Biden had the faintest snowball's chance in Hell of winning.
Anyone in his shoes would do the same.
Media collusion covered up the real story about Eddy Snowjob so people would focus on NSA activities (your precious phone data) that had been public knowledge for decades, if not longer in books, lectures etc over the years.
He was a Chinese agent who fled to China where he handed over NSA’s crown jewels of data collection: Methods and Means as well as list of covert agents, their job descriptions, address and Section Name. These people were killed
When the Chinese had enough of traitor, they kicked him out, but he managed to secure sanctuary in the Russian embassy.
He gave the Russians the same info which was then passed to Iran, AQ and ISIS. More people were killed.
He ranks right up there with Americas worst traitors like Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, Reality Winner. All Traitors that cost the US billions of dollars to rebuild and dozens of lives.
You can’t have it both ways: believing the MSN about Snowjob, but not believing it about DJT.
He needs to be shot, right after he’s drawn and quartered. Publicly.
Pardon the forgone confusion, but the NSA Snowden issue is off-the-charts bigger than Snowden.
Okay, allow me to throw a nu¥e in here.
Highly contrary, to nearly ALL government and global left wing press and mass media propaganda cover-up efforts, (and it is another big cover-up), the Snowden issue is actually unbreakably linked, *not to adversarial activity between Obama/Clinton/Moscow*, but to cooperation between Obama, Clinton, Brennan, and Clapper.
And yes, Obama, Brennan, and NSA Clapper are ground “Zero”.
I wouldn't fret about that too much: he pledged loyalty the the United States once, too.
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Ina real “Republic”.......That would be ....”BREAKING NEWS”.....
but its old news now....as I said on another thread... We've done all we could do...Rest comfortably tonite ITS IN GODS AND THE DEEP STATE'S HANDS NOW... 1 side or the other will win tomorrow and we can regroup and go from there...
Anyone else find the timing of this odd??
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