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Desperately Seeking Snowden: Where In The Russian Airport Is The Fugitive Whistleblower?

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Yesterday, infamous whistleblower Edward Snowden, stuck nearly two weeks in the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, finally got some good news: first Nicaragua, then Venezuela (and moments ago Bolivia) broke the rejection letter trend, and in bombastic and very political fashion, offered him asylum (although as with everything in politics nothing is concluded until he is actually on some Latin American beach). However, a question remains: just where is Snowden right now? After all, following his initial public appearance and video with the Guardian and WaPo, there have been virtually no public sightings of him, despite his current location in one of the most public venues in the world: the Moscow airport.

Reuters wonders how this is possible: "The former U.S. spy agency contractor has managed to stay out of sight for two weeks since arriving from Hong Kong on June 23, hoping to fly on to a country that would not send him back to the United States to face espionage charges. The hordes of reporters who for days camped out in the hope of finding him have long since packed up and left. These days Snowden just provides sport for bored passengers trying to spot him as they while away the hours waiting for connecting flights."

Some are amazed he has managed to stay there for 2 weeks:

"I offered my kids $200 to get a picture of him," Simon Parry, a Briton, said as he waited in the interconnected transit area between terminals D, E and F, a maze of corridors, lounges, fast food restaurants and duty free shops."

 

"The wireless Internet is appalling, the prices are awful, and people never smile. So I commend him for making it 24 hours, let alone two weeks. I might rather face trial," Parry said, sitting with his family at a Burger King outlet in Terminal E."

Nonetheless, there are many options on how to spend one's time:

Could he have been tempted to emerge from hiding to grab a burger, to buy some of the tacky Soviet memorabilia in the duty-free stores, or the diamond-encrusted handbags on sale nearby?

 

Has he ventured out to admire the displays of red, green and blue Faberge eggs selling for 1,000 euros each, or browsed the 200 euro sunglasses, perhaps to improve his disguise?

 

Where he has been washing is also not clear, although some toilets and showers dot the transit area. Sleeping cannot have been easy - the hum of vacuum cleaners punctuates the night.

 

Food in transit area restaurants could be brought to Snowden, even if he dare not venture out himself. He could by now have exhausted the menu at Russian diners like Mama Russia, which offers blinis, red caviar and cabbage soup, or at the two T.G.I. Friday's restaurants offering more international fare.

 

Olga Samsonova, who has worked as a waitress for 18 years at Sheremetyevo, says the airport food is costly and that Snowden may have turned to handouts from Russian airline Aeroflot.

 

"That's where he's got his food from. I can't say much about what it tastes like but it's nutritional, more or less. And they give you yogurt for breakfast," she said.

 

She had seen dozens of people - mostly asylum seekers - take up temporary residence at the airport in the time she has worked there, including an Iranian woman who spent nearly a year in the airport with her children before receiving asylum in Canada.

 

"At least there are lots of places to sit down," she said, standing over stewed vegetables for sale under the fluorescent lights of Terminal F, built for the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

Still, just where is he in the Moscow labyrinth that is a flashback to the eponymous Tom Hanks movie?

The WaPo has some observations:

[Snowden] has made himself lost for nearly 12 days in a mile-long transit corridor dotted with six VIP lounges, a 66-room capsule hotel, assorted coffee shops, a Burger King and about 20 duty-free shops selling Jack Daniel’s, Cuban rum, Russian vodka and red caviar that costs four times as much as it does in the city.

Unless he’s across the runway in private Terminal A, in the watchful company of Russian officials.

Everybody wants to find him. Journalists want to interview him. The United States wants to prosecute him. And now Anna Chapman wants to marry him.

He has made himself lost for nearly 12 days in a mile-long transit corridor dotted with six VIP lounges, a 66-room capsule hotel, assorted coffee shops, a Burger King and about 20 duty-free shops selling Jack Daniel’s, Cuban rum, Russian vodka and red caviar that costs four times as much as it does in the city.

Thursday was a quiet day at Sheremetyevo but a normal one, with the packs of journalists tiring of the unrequited chase. Athletic teams from Mongolia and China made their way through the airport en route to university games in Kazan. Families with young children waited for flights to summer resorts.

Anastasia Shodieva was selling costume jewelry and stuffed animals at a souvenir stand near the Skoda car display, where the journalists camped out last week. When asked about Snowden, she had to be prompted.

“Oh, that sort-of agent?” she asked, adding that the affair made no difference to her.

The transit zone

The United States wants Snowden on charges of theft and disclosing classified information in violation of the Espionage Act. Scores of journalists were waiting when his flight from Hong Kong landed June 23 in Terminal F. No sign of him. Others filled seats on Aeroflot to Havana — airport officials said Snowden had a ticket for June 24 — and flew off, taking pictures of his empty seat.

The airport’s half-dozen buildings cover an area as big as about 100 football fields, set off a traffic-clogged road 18 miles from the city center. A transit zone, about a mile long, wends its way along the sides of terminals D, E and F, which are connected by a walkway so arriving passengers can board connecting international flights without having to pass through passport control and customs, which requires a visa.

Terminal D, the most modern part, has soaring ceilings and a men’s room with an age-old smell to it. Tatyana Yudina, at the register of a traditional, lacquered-wood crafts souvenir stand, shrugged at the name “Snowden.”

Last week, journalists staked out a chain called Shokoladnitsa, hoping they would find Snowden drinking a $7 cappuccino or an $11 nonalcoholic mojito with $9 blini and red caviar. Nyet.

The capsule hotel rents tiny rooms for about $15 an hour, with a four-hour minimum. No one was spotted going in and out Thursday, and the clerk on duty frostily declared that she wasn’t allowed to talk with reporters.

An odd choice

Russians are a little bemused at all that fuss over surveillance. Many believe that the authorities can read their mail at will, listen in on their calls and sprinkle bugs around as they please.

“Wiretapping is so common, so this is not news,” said Alina Gorchakova, a 48-year-old account manager who stopped to chat on a city street.

What doesn’t seem normal to many is why Snowden decided to go to Ecuador, his original destination, through Russia. Once he arrived here, with his U.S. passport revoked, Ecuador has grown less enthusiastic. Russia says he can go anywhere he likes — he just needs a destination and authorized travel documents. So why doesn’t he go? Or show his face?

And Svetlana Chibisova, a 45-year-old tour agency manager, found it strange that an American carrying U.S. secrets would travel by way of Russia, where security agencies are very much in control.

“I don’t understand what he was thinking,” she said. “Is he a little boy with no idea about the consequences?”

Olga Prokopenko, 40, deputy director of a pharmaceutical company, said the Snowden affair sounded like a fairy tale. “How long will he have to stay in the transit zone? What is he eating there, and where does he sleep? Has anyone seen him at all? Strange.”

“I really wish he could be in some other transit zone,” she said, “because you never know what our authorities will do.”

Often, the television news doesn’t add up, said Yuri Artemiev, a 73-year-old retired aviation engineer.

“I don’t like this situation,” he said. “It looks like they wanted to get benefits from him being here and then something went wrong — as always.”

Snowden has become something of a ghost, said Igor Pavlenko, a 37-year-old sales manager.

“I am not at all sure that we are being told everything,” he said. “For example, as far as I know, he is in Sheremetyevo now. Okay, but maybe this is just one version. Have they shown us video or pictures of him in Sheremetyevo? No!”

 

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Sat, 07/06/2013 - 21:11 | 3727321 Kiwi Pete
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The reaction to Snowden's whistleblowing does seem out of all proportion to the others. What on earth has he got on them?

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 13:00 | 3726457 DanDaley
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If the Russians want him to get to Venezuela or Nicaragua, they would put him on a Russian sub and, voila, a week later there he is.  

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 13:08 | 3726471 Dr. No
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I guess I will wait for the movie to come out.  I only pray he does not get caught and we can have one of those "OMG conspiracy" endings.

 

EDIT: I pray he does not get caught and not for the sake of a good ending to a movie.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 13:09 | 3726473 Kirk2NCC1701
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If ZH posts this article, then it's a prelude and I expect the next shoe to fall within days:

Snowden no longer at Moscow Airport.  Whereabouts unknown.  Then a day or two later, Putin states: 

"He has left Russia for an undisclosed country that granted him asylum that he accepted.  This ends our knowledge of this matter.  We wish him well."

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 13:17 | 3726483 ToNYC
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Viva La Vida. Daddy and Mommy caught checking up on the Freedoms in their playpen bought at wallfart's. Check, mate?

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 13:17 | 3726486 marcusfenix
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the more intriguing question is why Russia in the first place? 

assuming he is really there, why did he choose to fly from HK to Moscow, I can tell you if I were in his position that would not have been my first choice especially given all the highly sensitive information I would (at least be assumed) to be toting around. 

personally I would have liked to be on one of those beaches in south America before those interviews and documents even hit the press. Snowden doesn't strike me as a careless person who is just making it up as he goes and he certainly has help from the wikileaks team.so my thought is this trip to Putinville was a part of some preplanned strategy

my guess is it's all very Sun Tzu "the enemy of my enemy is my ally", with the last two administrations granting themselves near limitless authority to snuff out anybody they consider a threat to national security (read: a threat to their own insane greed and lust for ever more power and control over not just the lives of Americans but those of any country they can get their claws into). Moscow might one of the few places where Washington can not simply silence him with an exploding car accident, a heart attack in the hot tub, various forms of suicide or the random, magically manifesting bullet to the head.

and of course DC is not about to drone a Russian airport.

so Snowden has protection in Moscow from the US government which we all know would disappear or snuff him out at the first convenient opportunity, things like innocent until proven guilty, due process and a trail by a jury of peers were never really in the cards for him.

but at what price?

he kind of like the big, fat turkey who runs into the mountain lions den to avoid the wolves, of course the lion is going to welcome him... 

anyways, I give Snowden a lot of credit for stepping up and helping to expose our psychotic, control freak government for what it really is, hopefully there is more to come.

I just hope he makes it to that beach someday.

 

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 14:07 | 3726571 ThisIsBob
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Wasn't he trying to make a dash to Ecuador via  Moscow and Havana?

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 13:17 | 3726488 sgorem
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Putin should/should have put Ed on the Russian equivalent of AirForce One and flew his ass to South America. My point here is to see who wants to fuck with the Ruskie plane. Not too many takers i presume.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 13:22 | 3726490 ToNYC
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First thing I'd want to do if I was just smart, is not to let the golden goose fly away. The trapdoor at the shemaleykoombayya airport lounge remains in good order.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 13:29 | 3726494 T-NUTZ
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The got rid of OBL, now we got "Edward Snowden", public enemy number 1.  Next step "Edward Snowden" starts launching cyber-terror attacks against prime targets.  Get used to a white American bread and butter terrorist my little Sheep.  They'll undoubtedly release many videos to prove it.  and the WAR ON TERROR must go on.  and we are all suspects. 

 

meanwhile "Edward Snowden" is and has been kickin it in a remote Montana location under the careful watch of the CIA

 

Black ops BITCHEZ!!

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 13:31 | 3726496 ThisIsBob
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Unless Biden has some overwhelming blackmail, Ecuador needs to step back up here.  Nicest of the countries mentioned.  Lots of expats, very few locals dislike gringos.  Has highest point on earth (measured from earth's center) and bikinied hotties at the beach. 

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 13:57 | 3726505 Yes We Can. But...
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Social security records
Medical
Prescriptions/meds
Credit card transactions
Travel/toll on card
Cell calls
Cell GPS
Auto GPS
Fingerprints from police-day at grade school
DNA
Iris scan
Facial scan
Traffic cams
Security cams
Banking records
SAR suspicious activity reports by tellers
Smart meter on home
Trading records
Email records
web records
Anything on cloud
Landline records
Telephony metadata
eBay/Craigslist etc data
Marriage hunting fishing etc licenses
Passport records
Facebook LinkedIn careerbuilder etc
Political contributions
Votes cast electronically?
Street view and aerial of real property

What else?

All permanently stored and neatly pulled together via data mining One click and your lifetime profile report is ready for consumption, analysis, action.

Fortunately, your lifetime report would *never* be used maliciously.

We are 100% owned...

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 14:07 | 3726569 indio007
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People are not their data. No one is owned.

You volunteer to be associated with it.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 14:13 | 3726586 Uncle Remus
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Wir sind so geshtup.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 15:01 | 3726659 sgorem
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local corner drug deals? shit!

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 13:45 | 3726529 WarPony
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Did Snowden actually ever arrive in Ruska, or was that a diversion of the friendly commies? Like, watch over here, while we divert over there.  My bet is he's a purposeful distraction conjured by the CIA in the NSA turf battles, or he's chained to a chair in a chicom hacking center.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 14:21 | 3726599 Uncle Remus
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E) All the above

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 13:57 | 3726548 TNTARG
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May the US have him already? Just thinking.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 13:59 | 3726558 dizzyfingers
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Hope he's alive and well.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 14:01 | 3726560 All Out Of Bubblegum
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There is no goddam Snowden. He's just another wrong question the bastards keep getting people to ask. As long as the sheep keep asking the wrong questions, they can be lead around like the sheep they are.

In six months, no one will remember Snowden. But the Bankster Intelligence Machine will still be spying on as many people it can put under its eye.

 

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 14:06 | 3726567 Elliptico
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A Cinnabon Classic craving (aka the Gorby Roll) may be his undoing.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 14:09 | 3726572 Uncle Remus
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"And now for my next trick..."

 

(number 9, number 9, number 9)

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 14:20 | 3726597 Cathartes Aura
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subtle, as per usual.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 14:29 | 3726614 Uncle Remus
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She said cultural references. Heh heh.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 14:08 | 3726573 Z_End
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Perhaps he never left HK at all. Could be the biggest deception play of all time.

May be holed up there awaiting a place of asylum. Nicaragua or Venezuala are long but unopposed trip across the Pacific rather than across Europe or certain Afirican nations which may be unduly influenced by the US.

The whole episode with the Bolivian AF1 makes me think most people may have taken the bait. At least perhaps the US. 

If he suddenly turns up somewhere, Putin will be laughing his ass off.

We shall see. Despite the technology it is still a very big world...

 

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 15:29 | 3726712 DosZap
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Nicaragua or Venezuala

He now has 4 choices, a Russian Ex KGB agent,turned super model wants to marry him.And Bolivia and Iceland have agreed to take him of asked.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 15:54 | 3726754 el Gallinazo
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Vlad the Impaler would have known immediately.  So if he weren't on the flight from HK to Moscow, Vlad was playing the charade to the hilt.  This seems a little unlikely to me.  If the truth came out, he would look a bit like a buffoon and lose some gravitas.  So I think the trip from HK to Moscow was real.  Where he was an hour or more after arrival is anyone's guess.

As to being a USSA psyops, the only upside that anyone can come up with is scaring the USAco sheeple into silence.  But blowing up high rise buildings and shooting school children is so much more effective (unless the sheeple wake up to the fact that they are being butchered by their evil shepherds).  But I always liked the smell of roasting mutton.

As to the whole affair being a three ring circus, it is our controlled corporate media that is doing that - not Snowden.  Point being always to divert attention from the magician's hands.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 14:12 | 3726580 Cacete de Ouro
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Very few people (if any) read latter posts on ZH unless they are inherited child posts off of the very first posting. This I find frustrating, but what am I going to do about it...nothing..unless I could submit a plan to redesign the peanut gallery postings...

Anyway, I've totally forgotten what I was going to say. This must be worth a few up arrows? Anyone?

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 14:27 | 3726604 spooz
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If you are logged in, you get the option of choosing to see newest posts first.Not sure, but the default is probably the same as for those that don't log in, which is oldest first.  To me, the default should be newest first.  Otherwise you risk having paid shills controlling the dialog by being on duty waiting for the next post that is on their paid agenda. On the other hand, if it were newest first, said paid shills could just diligently spam to get their message across.

http://consciouslifenews.com/paid-internet-shill-shadowy-groups-manipula...

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 15:01 | 3726660 Waterfallsparkles
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Maybe they could post the original post and create a link to responses.  So, you would have to click on the responses to see the posts.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 15:53 | 3726746 Cacete de Ouro
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I think an expandable / collapsable function for responses to original posting messages is a great idea. This would allows readers to scan down by original high level postings, and deter the activity of trying to respond to posts merely because they happened to be early posts at the top of page 1. It would also avoid the really annoying rendering of responses as tiny, but very long stacked, one word per line response posts which become unreadable quite quickly.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 16:33 | 3726805 phaedrus1952
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That's a good idea, there Cac. Something, perhaps, for the Tyler's to consider

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 14:12 | 3726583 spooz
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Firedoglake considers whether ALBA nations, together with Wikileaks, could be putting out disinformation to protect Snowden with the added benefit of shaming the US:

http://my.firedoglake.com/yellowsnapdragon/2013/07/05/information-or-dis...

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 14:32 | 3726620 Uncle Remus
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The US doesn't need any help in that regard.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 14:55 | 3726653 smacker
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It's possible.

Snowden may be sipping iced cocktails on the beach in Antigua (an ALBA member) right now.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 14:15 | 3726588 bugs_
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1.  Check data center

2.  Check vending machines

3.  Check pinball arcade

4.  Check stewardess dressing room

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 14:38 | 3726626 blindman
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"where have all the hobos gone to?" ...j.p
John Prine Hobo Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz766RbceB4

The Hobo Song
by John Prine

There was a [D]time, when [G]lonely men would [D]wander;
Through this [A7]land, rolling endlessly [D]along.
So many [D]times, I've [G]heard of their sad [D]stories;
[D]Written in the [A]words of dead men's [D]songs.

Down through the years, many men have yearned for freedom.
Some found it only on the open road.
So many tears of blood have filled around them;
'Cause you can't alway do what you are told.

Please tell me where, have all the hobos gone to.
I see no light a'burning down by the rusty railroad tracks.
Could it be, that time has gone and left them,
Tied up in life's eternal travelling sack.

(spoken)
Last Sunday night, I wrote a letter to my loved ones.
I signed my name and knew I'd stayed away too long.
There was a time when my heart was free to wander.
And I remember as I sing this hobo song

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 14:41 | 3726634 devo
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Snowden fucked up his life to enlighten people who don't give a shit.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 14:56 | 3726651 Waterfallsparkles
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If you want to think about a conspiracy theory on a conspiracy theory, then this was done intentionally to silence free speech in America.

This was done to make Americans worry about what they posted, said on the phone, said on e-mails.  A form of control of any disident opinions of the Administration or the Government.

Very much like in Communist Countries were people are afraid of speaking against any of the policys of the Governemet for fear of reprisal. 

So, that anything you say or type will be used against you at any time in the future to take away your freedom or put you in jail forever.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 15:41 | 3726734 blindman
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the world runs on voluntary compliance so the question becomes
one of marketing to the manipulated and manufactured will of the
people or a reasonable or even unreasonable facsimile thereof.
.
snowman can, if nothing else, know that Jefferson, Jackson,
Franklin and Washington would all be on the list he is on if
they were alive today so he keeps good company. the intolerable irony
is that those who would condemn him are the same ones his actions
serve to protect into posterity, but none of these people can
really think beyond the tips of their mustaches;
nor can they keep a principle or moral active in the strategies
for the time it takes to conjure a policy.
.
when the people let their best be prosecuted by their worst
that "people" is good and damned, doomed !

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 18:37 | 3727017 bunnyswanson
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It is the potential leaders, the people with an audience, they surfaced with OWS crowd, the teaparty crowd, the libertarian rising...they are the ones who should be concerned.  The people who are on line or on the phone talking about the corruption in high places and the failure of paid and elected politicians to protect the United States of America are no real threat however will be on the list.  It's the heroes they are looking for.  They are the biggest threat to the agenda to overthrow America (already in the hands of the global banking cartel and if you want the country back, just write them a check for balance due).

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 14:58 | 3726655 Crash Overide
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Too many secrets...  everything that gets blown up in the news these days smells funny, I worry about the stuff that isn't getting attention.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 15:33 | 3726719 el Gallinazo
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Like Fuckyoushima

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 15:02 | 3726663 Crash Overide
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...and, now that the whole world knows what they already knew about the NSA spying on everyone, where is the outrage and masses of people calling for the defunding and shutdown of the Utah data center/Quantum pre-crime center?

 

Nothings changed.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 15:16 | 3726684 Kirk2NCC1701
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Even if this is a AIC op against their ASN cousins -- which it could be, but likely isn't (i.e. to prove to Obummer that human intel and mind-fucks beats EE/cyber-intel when it really matters) -- then one of the unintended bits of collateral damage is that...

1. The Chinese, Russians and Latin countries get to make a fool of the US and NSA with their cat & mouse (where's Waldo?) games. 

2. They also get to expose/out the EU political whores (for all to see), that they are happy to do America's bidding.  Clearly when the US says 'jump', the EU says 'how high'.

I'm now boycotting everthing from Austria, France, Spain, Italy and Portugal.  They can keep they over-priced Mozart chocolates, 'fromage', champagne, sardines, olives and wine.  And their FIATs (Fix It Again Tony), Renaults and Peugots.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 15:48 | 3726739 paint it red ca...
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The Snowden story has never quite passed my sniff test from the beginning. However, It never has quite failed it either.

Is it possible that the leaking Snowden is actually a leaking strawman designed by opposing government forces to keep the public attention focused on topic beyond its usual 15 minute span of concentration? Nothing I have read leaked by Snowden has escaped speculation in prior surveillance articles going back years.

As a strawman, a mythical phantom, Snowden can play to the script written for him and isn't that what keeps the public attention, in this case awareness for the public good?

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 15:50 | 3726747 blindman
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either way the guy should not be punished or prosecuted
for pointing out that there is a massive , semi secret "intelligence
industrial complex" problem interfering with constitutional
government , markets and even the future "nature" of human beings
regarding their rights and abilities! not that the "economy",
money system, has
not already conveyed that revelation.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 16:53 | 3726834 phaedrus1952
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I am more and more suspecting that the Snowden affair has some fairly high level sanction - possibly from within the NSA itself - in an attempt to halt the grotesque (blackmail, murder, theft, etc,) activities that arise from the gathering of this info on all of us everywhere. As far as I know, the NSA merely collects this data. They are not the agency, per se, that is carrying out all sorts of horrific deeds. I could be mistaken, but I think some parts of the US government ARE waging war upon one another, as an intelligence operative stated some months ago.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 19:53 | 3727169 blindman
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"government" means different things to different people.
it is always fighting for it's life.
some wish it would die altogether and some
believe it is as a communal necessity. we might
live long enough to see this simple dynamic cleared
up, yet, most have not.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 23:50 | 3727563 FeralSerf
Mon, 07/08/2013 - 05:30 | 3730145 Azannoth
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Edward Snow(man) ?

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 15:47 | 3726742 TooRichtoCare
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So...as a joke, are they playing that Tom Hanks movie "The Terminal" over and over on a loop at the airport, so Snowden can learn how to deal with a potential SEVENTEEN YEAR residency in the airport?

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 20:14 | 3727209 ebear
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Ground Hog Day!

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 15:49 | 3726745 Goldilocks
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BERT KAEMPFERT - STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkz72ev9qeY (3:13)

John Gregory & His Orchestra - Theme from 'A Summer Place'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiLJfauggqs (2:42)

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 15:56 | 3726757 Essential Intel...
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Right from the beginning of the Snowden circus which was jump started by the Guardian paper (reflecting the views of the left wing of British intelligence), it was suggested that MI6 is deeply involved in this limited hangout Psyop. During Friday, July 5, The UK government (and the Guardian) continued to leverage the public fallout from this crisis in order to further complicate relations between the US and the EU by blocking the first crucial talks on intelligence and espionage between European officials and their American counterparts. For some mysterious reason, there is apparently no mention of the UK’s massive data mining operation run through GCHQ which hands data over to the NSA…

Details here: http://osnetdaily.com/2013/07/nsa-leaks-fallout-british-crisis-mongering-continues/

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 16:15 | 3726781 dojufitz
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I think he is dead.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 17:07 | 3726870 Downtoolong
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I’m really surprised the NSA Weatherman can’t point him out to us all on the Daily World Heat Map.

Furthermore, if the 100+ people in the Transit Area who aren’t holding tickets to anywhere (aka NSA and CIA agents disguised to look like passengers) can’t locate Snowden then he isn’t there.  Let’s face it, if you were in Snowden’s shoes, wouldn’t you want to disappear before you tried to permanently go anywhere? And the last thing you would want to do is tell anyone where anywhere is.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 17:34 | 3726904 bunnyswanson
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" The cost of some very good people being assassinated is incalculable. How much better would America be, for example, if Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had not been assassinated in 1968? And America was shocked and stunned by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, an enemy of Hoover's FBI, in 1963. "

 

http://www.stoppoliticalassassinations.com/

Assassination Nation
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31925.htm

By Doug Noble
A broad-gauged program of targeted assassination has now displaced counterinsurgency as the prevailing expression of the American way of war.”–Andrew Bacevich\


Assassinations and Attempts in U.S. Since 1865

Read more: Assassinations and Attempts in U.S. Since 1865 | Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0194022.html#ixzz2YIsS5wGD


 

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 18:36 | 3727016 Monedas
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Check all the bathroom stalls .... excellent hiding place .... can change stalls rapidly .... and there is the .... gay rights privacy aspect ?

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 19:30 | 3727123 BigInJapan
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Nowhere, not even once have I read the question posed: "how does he keep his data secure while he sleeps"?

 

The FSB would probably be pumping the room full of gas once he dozes off, taking his data devices and cloning the drives. The guy would never know... of course this assumes that the whole story is real and we can base some assumptions on logic. The Chinese are likely to have done the same in his HK hotel.

 

Julian Assange seemss to be in pretty constant contact with him... remember that guy??? We should ask him. . . he seems to always have earth changing revelations... err... or not. 

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 20:35 | 3727240 ThisIsBob
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The juicy stuff and insurance files are not on his laptops.  The kid ain't stupid. 

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 21:09 | 3727311 blindman
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to sum it up ..
assholes rule the world, and will, until such time
that they (the rest) become interested and involved beyond the
advantage they gain from massaging the assholes.
that can't be it. .......
we cannot teach this to the next generation and expect a good result,
no way this will work over any period of time. right?
.
is it all just a matter of silver tongue lying to the public
and creating legal credit out of thin air? makes the world go
round?

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 21:27 | 3727349 ToNYC
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Each individual snowflake never feels itself responsible for the avalanche. 

"Dans une avalanche, aucun flocon ne se sent jamais responsable" - Voltaire

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 23:43 | 3727551 pitz
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The dude isn't in the fucking part of the airport that's accessible to "Joe Sixpack".  Isn't this fucking obvious?  Most airports have private lounges, VIP lounges, etc., within their transit areas, that are not accessible to the public. 

Sun, 07/07/2013 - 08:52 | 3727959 Sathington Willougby
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Joe Sixpack AND Sasha Smirnoff

Sun, 07/07/2013 - 00:03 | 3727599 tony bonn
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i pray to god that he is in a safer place in south america....

Sun, 07/07/2013 - 08:51 | 3727958 Sathington Willougby
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INNOCENT SNOWBALL

My country is so empty, nothing to live for.
My mind is all confusion, cuz I defied the whore.
But you were there to watch me, I lost my mind and ran.
I never had no trouble before this all began.

My nation is so empty, nothing to live for.
My mind is all confusion, cuz I defy rule by whore.
When you were there to drone me, I lost my mind and ran.
I never had no trouble before this all began.

I'm running away, no where to go.
I'm lost and tired and I just don't know. Yeah...
They say I killed a facade, they know it isn't true.
They're just trying to frame me, and all because of you. Yeah...

LORD I'M RUNNIN

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juNtp_QZyQU

 

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 05:08 | 3730136 Azannoth
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The hunt for Edward Snowden will be like the hunt for Usama bin Ladin, until Seal Team 16 gets him and dump his body into the Pacific Ocean preferably over the Mariana Trench

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