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Edward Snowden: "They've Said They Won't Torture Me..."
Submitted by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com,
Just in case anyone still foolishly believes that there’s a shred of decency left in the ‘justice’ system in the Land of the Free, I would humbly present exhibit A: Edward Snowden.
In a recent interview with the BBC, Edward Snowden disclosed that he has offered numerous times to the US government to return to the United States, face trial, and if necessary, spend time in prison.
[full interview below]
It hasn’t mattered that hundreds of thousands of people have signed petitions asking President Obama to pardon Mr. Snowden.
Those petitions have been totally ignored.
So Snowden is preparing to return and face trial, negotiating terms with Uncle Sam to ensure that he’s treated fairly.
As he told the BBC, “So far they’ve said they won’t torture me. Which is a start, I think. But we haven’t gotten further than that.”
It’s a sad reflection on the values of a country that someone who blows the whistle on the government committing egregious crimes and violating its own constitution has to flee to Russia in order to escape oppression.
It’s even worse that the government in the Land of the Free rescinded his passport.
But it’s utterly shocking that any negotiation about his return has to start by taking TORTURE off the table.
The fact that torture even has to be mentioned is utterly pathetic. And it pretty much tells you everything you need to know about justice in America... and what happens if you dare cross the government.
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Word has it that his girlfriend is with him in Mother Russia.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/11/edward-snowden-girlfriend...
That's what his Russian lawyer confimed, or at least she visits him quite often. He also told the press that Snowden works for some unnamed IT company.
Absolutely!!! Just did a search of hot Russian female athletes and I just about got a woody looking at the pics. A fairly attractive guy, with his notoriety, should not have any trouble shacking up with a hot Russian babe. Russian winters do get a bit nippy, but I'm sure them girls know how to turn up the heat. You know the old song "northern girls, they keep their boyfriends warm at night".
Don't be an idiot Snowden; you did the right thing, now do the smart thing. Don't even think about returning to this pisshole of a country.
Yea. This is a 'Snow' job, brought to us by BBC.
No torture? Of course not, they call them "enhanced interrogation techniques" now.
Want to know your fate if you return to the US Showden?
Look no further than Chelsea Manning.
The States will not capitulate even in the presence of strong public opposition.
As far as they are concerned you must be made a example of to deter others.
Stay in Russia.
So they will force Edward to get a sex change (Edwina?) and become lesbian? Now that is torture...
so sad to be an american under this .gov. having began my life in what really was the freeset country on earth to the one most feared by the world and it's own informed citizens.
And the moment he gets off the plane at JFK, he's Benigno Aquino 2.0..........................
That's assuming the plane he's on doesn't get "370'd", as in Malaysian Airlines..............and we know the story of "assume" as well........................
they don't need to torture him if they just kill him as they are wont to do.
You wait for at least one new US Presidential Administration before attempting to negotiate. You'll receive nothing from the Administration that was presiding at the time of your whistle-blowing.
This is just the way it is, and it has always been such. It has nothing to do with the fact that we currently have a nigger president. No, really. It doesn't matter that some boon inhabits the White House. This is not ZH sarcasm.
Snowden should wait until after Donald Trump is sworn in and Hillary goes to prison.
Maybe he will be offered a better deal???
Sadly, my friend, it will be Hillary sworn in. She will be voted into office by the same demographics who voted for the current leader-in-chief, twice.
The Rump would excecute Snowden for Treason. He has said as much.
If they made him share a cell with Hillary, THAT would be torture!
It won't matter who is president.
Ummm, the US has a pretty high bar to call something torture. In fact what the rest of the world calls torture we call enhanced interrogation.
I expect any time spent in contact with US authorities anywhere in the world will result in an auto erotic accident or a double tap suicide.
I would get a firm defintion by what THEY mean by torture.
Remember, Cheney - Waterboarding isn't torture....
“You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means”
Snowden needs to man up to his decision. Adapt to the culture and learn the language fluently and shack up with a hot woman. There's no going back now. Even thinking about it is foolish.
Agreed. Wise advice. Become culturally Russian in every way possible and live a full life.
What has Eddie revealed?
What has he not revealed, yet?
I think Eddie was made-up.
Edward Snowden=Emmanuel Goldstein?
I can't believe he would ever believe anything the US government would promise and return.
He should stay in Russia and enjoy life with his beautiful girlfriend.
They just amputate all his limbs under anesthetic...
Why would he give these circus freaks who own this bitch of a country the satisfaction of his public hanging via a kangaroo court? He seemed stupid before when he released this information while in transit, not from a safe place. This dipshittery takes the cake though.
It was nice that the shills of the internet were revealed and this fiasco went a long way toward retiring the tin foil hat defamatory accusation phrase. But his decisions are foolish and he has no common sense. Now he is going to try to undo the good he has managed to accomplish if he goes through with this stupid homecoming stunt.
The world is becoming really fucked up!!!
I am agreeing with a Simon Black article.
I never thought this day would come.
<- Yes.
<- No.
Do you trust the US government?
Negotiating with the U.S. government. That's got "Faustian bargain" written all over it.
I remember the first article about Snowden wanting to come back to the US I read was published by the AP, so I automatically smelled the distinct odor of propaganda alll over it. Then following the usual channels, the story spread to the other mainstream media outlets...
Seriously, did he break up with his pole-dancer girlfriend? Somehow I doubt that would be the reason for a sudden pining to come back to America and spend the rest of his life in jail. In fact, in not a single article have I come across any mention of a reason why Snowden wishes to return to the U.S. at this time.
SNOWden would be better off living in Siberia. He will not ever come back to the US unless it is in a body-bag. Sadly; we need many more of him. However if everyone in positions of power and authority were to tell the truth for just a day; the entire house of cards built strictly on lies would come crashing down and all hell would break loose.
Just what in the hell does the US have that would entice Snowden to return? I can't thing of a damn thing; last time I checked, beautiful 21 year-old foxes weren't giving out free blow jobs.....
Snowden is insane to come back. He probably will get Life if hes lucky he'll get Death. Ole Eddie will be in some Federal compound where he will be tortured and raped for the rest of his miserable life. Stay in Russia Edward! When they win WW3 you'll be able to come back free and clear.
To be honest I don't know why the US gov didn't play it cooler and grant him a pardon JUST to get his ass back in the country.
They're making Snowden, Binney, Drake, and Kiriakou the examples so other government employees don't get uppity.
Hell even the SF guys are shitting their pants that the government is always watching them and might come after them or toss them out a helicopter if they said the wrong thing.
Like. Ummmmmmm. Eddy Snowden released a bunch of "secrets" which were more embarrassing than important.
But....like...Hillary released North Korean troop movements and Christopher Stevens' travel schedule and she doesn't seem too worried about being tortured Rather it is I who worry about being tortured by her screech for the next 12 months and then her socialistic, statist lash upon my back should she be elected.
You know Ed...
It would go a long way in your current digs to "pan handle" some for the ones you left back home that are sorta "stuck"... My understanding from the likes of Drake, Binney and Tice they are still pulling the IRS out of their ass along with the hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees they are stuck with 13 years later.... Let alone the ones that are still in prison doing time like pfc Manning.
Wonder why NSA and CIA types like Kiriakou get out of prison and not the poor foot soldier that said he would die in prison or swing from a rope if necessary based on what he had both heard and seen while he served his Country with honor and distinction?... Sure wish we had a bigger list for the DoD but we don't!!!!
Nice to know the BBC still does interesting work and at least has the "edifice" of integrity if nothing else. Jane Standley didn't conduct the interview for this one now did she?
Love ya bro!
P.S.
When you get the chance and I know it doesn't really matter at this point given how many years you worked for the agency and are smart enough to draw the right conclusions show your patrotism by signing this.
He should really give up any thought of coming back to the US. It is not going to happen.
By even talking like he thinks it is going to happen makes him look naive.
He should be able to chisel out a fairly nice life outside the US.
Agreed. I have no idea why he would even consider coming back. He could live a nice peaceful and long life with his girlfriend over there. He also can do far more good out of prison by speaking out publicly than in some CIA black site hellhole that he'd inevitably be tossed into by the monsters in the US government.
Stay free Eddy, learn to garden. Enjoy your new life.
They should torture the piss out of this sociopath.
What evil deeds did you do for the government that you're afraid might come out? hmmmmm?
What Rus piece is in your cockholster?
Minion
Minion
Ah, I see that your troubled little head yet again for the orientation of the ass arrived.
Learn how to properly employ english you fucking ignoramus.
Ugh, you're having the shittiest in all respects. Fuck, how you smell.
Ed is homesick.
Eddie Snowden - aka Putin's Bitch.
yomutti. You are the biggest asshole on this site. You Brothers have bought and paid and are in the most influencial positions money can buy and you are a paid shill, or Minion that is the lowest of a life form.
When a person speaks out about the wrongs his country does mostly for the Money......You have shit spew out on your Key Pad .
Fuck off and Die.
Don't accept the free Mercedes, whatever you do.
The legal/judicial system in the US is just that: a system.
From the lowly divorce trial court up to the Supreme Court of the US, it is sentencing first and verdict after wards, just as Alice said it.
Mr. Snowden, I regret to inform you your conviction has been already served. Even worse, the verdict (French "la vere", the truth, and "dire" to say) will never be heard.
And Satan never lies.
"He's going to die in Moscow. He's not coming home"
... I wonder... if he mysteriously turns up dead in Moscow, will anyone circle back to that unamibguous death threat.
Erwin Schiff
Ed would die if he returned. A cancer, quick consumption would silence him. He would never last long enough to get to trial. Ed is completely naive about returning. Before Ed, the fact is most tech savy people understood that the NSA was watching all the data on the Internet. Ed did not do ISIS or any nefarious assholes any favors or betray the 'we' US citizens. Before Ed, nefarious people new that encryption is/was/maybe still is the only way to communicate if you want to keep your data away from the NSA. The only thing Ed changed was the wake up call the American public who were and for the most part still are ignorant about the criminal acts of our own government.
Speaking of government dirty deeds does anyone remember the Church Committee and the heart attack gun? That was a long time ago, they show the weapon and some of the proceedings as well as an interview with one ex CIA employee who helped develop it. Basically they had an undetectable poison that could induce heart attack that only takes a pin prick to deliver, the early models used darts and this is 70s technology. Oh yeah, they can induce fast acting cancer too, this is very old news.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzIw44w00ow
“So far they’ve said they won’t torture me.
They will not; their friends will torture You
Sneakers (1992)
Cosmo: I cannot kill my friend.
[to his henchmen]
Cosmo: Kill my friend.
Any interrogation would just be "Enhanced", no torture.
What an idiot ! Hasn't he ever gone to those Meet Russian Babe's sites ? He's over where THEY are at.
Return, go through a show trial, some Federal dungeon to make an example out of his kind, mysterious death after a few years of misery.
Idiot if he comes back.
ED-
PLEASE! Do NOT negotiate with terrorists! Hunker down in Russia, learn russian, live in a remote location, work at your job/business, have kids, etc. SERIOUSLY.
You will come home some day as a hero......
ACHTUNG USDOJ GOONZ: there are literally thousands of independant surveillance specialists around the world watching exactly what you old school retards are doing. you wont get away with jack shit when the whip comes down... and its coming soon. US DOJ has no moral authority. all they are are empty vengeful thieves pissed off because they are getting robbed by other thieves. good luck assholes
ACHTUNG USDOJ GOONZ: there are literally thousands of independant surveillance specialists around the world watching exactly what you old school retards are doing. you wont get away with jack shit when the whip comes down... and its coming soon. US DOJ has no moral authority. all they are are empty vengeful thieves pissed off because they are getting robbed by other thieves. good luck assholes
Sure Ed, come back.
Osama wants some company.
Your legal problems are nothing compared to what Booz Allen will do if they get their hands on you.
http://www.boozallen.com/careers/find-your-job/former-booz-allen-employees
Ed, these motherfuckers blow up hospitals and drone wedding parties.
You don't stand a fucking chance.
Stay away.
WTF does Snowden want to come home for. Isn't the Land O Pooptin all it's cracked up to be, lmao he'd even go to jail to get out of Russia. Not good Chamber of Commerece stuff. Not many people Want to go to Russia and the People there like US FRN's better than Rubles.
Typical pindosi comment.
Not to look the stark reality of their own box, they are going to poop in someone else's.
whine on, son.
Eh, no place like home, right?
If he wants freedoms, revoke your citizenship then return. They can't touch you like the illegals...
The Zionist pigs and the Reptillian snakes are getting a major-league arse kicking. By Love. And God, of course, who created Love. Only a deranged pig, satan, would create Hatred. You are done like a dinner( Tiger Williams)! And so it is!
I would even be afraid in Russia.
The CIA people in Russia could easily get the guy.
Some CIA goon with piano wire could take care of him.
He's a thorn in the NSA. There are plenty of people that could be contracted to go to Russia and kill him.
Plenty of very pretty woman in Russia. He is after all a celebrity there.
Not even
In the six months before Snowden arrived in Moscow, the FSB identified and Russia expelled 3 CIA agents and publicly outed (redundant for emphasis) the CIA CHIEF OF STATION in Moscow.
On May 20, 2013, six days after CIA agent Ryan Fogle was pinned to the pavement wearing a blonde wig by FSB men, Snowden arrived in Hong Kong.
A month later, after Putin himself flushed the rest of CIA out of the Augean Stables along the Moskva River, Snowden arrived in Moscow.
I suppose there are some CIA operatives in Moscow but they've lost their controllers and don't know what to do or who to report to.
Dumb question, but couldn't we nullify any trial he was in? The guy's a god damned war hero!
Ed.Remember.This is the same(if not worse) corrupt government that promised in 1990 NATO would not move any closer to the Soviet union/Russia.
It's a cookbook!
Such a fluent and equable youngster. Wise beyond his years. I would be proud to have him as a son.
“So far they’ve said they won’t torture me. Which is a start, I think. But we haven’t gotten further than that.”
They made the same promise to Bradley Manning. Ask her how that worked out. Dude is a chick now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEKDgZH0EGQ
Does Bradley have his cock and nuts intact?
Snowden expects too much in view of what the other 300 million citizens of the USA have to put up with on a daily basis.
That is why they dont want him back.
Snowden should be pardonned. He performed an invaluable service for the American citizen against the political class That is why he will not be pardonned by the group he outed
It would take a new President, and a new Justice Department. If they offered him a deal, there wouldnt have to be a trial.
To find the measure of a politician, find out how they stood on Snowden when the story first broke. Many of the ones demanding his hide knew what was happening at the NSA, and approved. IMHO, data mining is the ultimate dream of every dirty politican
Russia is looking like a better place to live than the US with every passing day...
Then go with God, but go.
Yea, along with the women....
Did this guy take a trip in the "dumb fuck machine"?
I thought by now that he would have learned not to trust ANYTHING the .gov says...
ANYONE who walks out of a top-security Federal Prison after many years ... is basically going to be a Human Vegetable. That's the truth of it.
It doesn't require torture. The extreme ISOLATION with no contact with the outside world ... will eventually break down all human beings until they are like a mindless robot in an auto factory. This is how the prison cells are designed.
Game over.
Humans have withstood isolation for decades, if they have good cause and good coping skills. Granted, those who are accustomed to the mindless chatter of electronic entertainment 24/7 are more likely to have trouble with it than those who have trained their minds. If a computer programmer can improvise a writing tool, he/she can keep mentally active for as long as necessary by writing code.
If Edward Snowden is even negotiating to return to the US then he's out of his mind. Really.
However good or bad he's getting on in Russia, it's better than spending years in a US prison for acting in the public interest. As for the promise not to torture him, we all know that when it suits them, US authorities have a very variable definition of the term. Think about what happened to Chelsea Manning who was left in a cold cell naked for nights on end for the purpose of rank humiliation.
Edward Snowden: "Wake up. The criminals in Washington won't be in power forever."
Of course Snowden is not really negotiating for his return. He and he NSA are playing a mini game of chess.
He knows that the US government are still anxious to know what he took with him.
And that they might be able to find out, through these negotiations, whether or not Document X or Document Y was in his booty.
On Snowden's part, he is interested to find out what it is that the NSA wants know about so he can pull it from the other million documents, brush up on it, and
Maybe.
On the other hand he may be missing home now the novelty has warn off and is genuinely negotiating to see if they will agree terms which he can accept.
Maybe not.
Snowden is smart enough to know he'd have to go into "the Alleged Traitors Protection Program" if and when he returns.
But you're pulling my leg, aren't you?
(Novelty usually wears off between the age of 17 to 28 leaving only an unslakable sex drive. There are plenty of georgous Russian women who want nothing more than to delve into the pants of this American Honoree of the Order of Alexander Nevsky First Class.)
You don't know how lucky you are boys - back in the US back in the US
I disapprove strongly with most of the policies and actions of the American politicians, but I also disapprove of what Snowden did, I intepreted it as very obvious evidence of bad judgement.
Now that I learn that Snowden is trying to return to the USA *AFTER* having flagrantly smashed MULTIPLE super-stinky shit bombs into the faces of the American regime leaders AND after having coddled up to the enemies of the American regime leaders, I am absolutely sure that his brain is severely defective.
Snowden is an Olympic-class dumb ass.
So, let me guess...
You are the type that would send a man to prison for life to keep your record squeeky clean and the skeletons firmly locked in your closet. USA! FUCK YEA!
You are the type of person who should NEVER be allowed to be a DA and cop or anyone with power.
Just go pack up and move to a commie country.
"So far they’ve said they won’t torture me"
The question is does he believe them?
Would you?
I think not.
Given the GOPs track record, that is almost evidence that they will torture him. Probably like, three weeks after he returns.
I wanna know how I can get my govt. to stop torturing me. And I bet I'm gonna need a bigger boat to fit in the folks who feel the same way.
At this point he's better off staying put. Nothing anyone says can be trusted, and there are too many here who really want him hurt.
I'd wait if I were him. Who knows how things will work out over the next few years, and what strange things might come out of nowhere? He may even get a pardon...
no One enemy of the United States of America is...the government of the US of A. They all swore to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic...guess they forgot about the domestic bit
Mr. Snowden should also get guarantees that his friends, family, and pets will not be tortured or killed. They go first you know, just to make things psychologically horrible as well as physically painful.
Ok,,, somebody explain to me why Eddi would even think about going back. Keep in mind he knows shit.
What would Nazis or Italian Fascists do to him.
I agree with you.
We have a hyperventilating Neo-Con Indoctrinated Military Republic built on so much protection of secrets even non-secret info and data is protected and whistleblowers crushed to set an example.
It is like the USA will bulge into National bankruptcy trying to control all government and government contracting info.
- Hyper Secrecy
- Hyper control of the Free press/MSM
- Hyper Militancy
- Hyper Protection of Israel
- Hyper Political Correctness
- Hyper Global and Domestic Spying
- Hyper Financialization and Protection of Bankers and Large Corporation
- Hyper Bailouts and Protection of Bail-Ins
- Hyper Elitism, Hyper Cronyism
And Hyper Admiration for Dictators and Tyrannical Systems by our leaders.
Sure, our Central Bank protects us from federal moral hazard.
Yeah right, and our financial ratings protect us from companies and investments that are over-leveraged and mismanaged.
S/
The boy made claims that he knew lots of stuff. Like all the dirty tricks, some he took part in?
Yeah, well, that's what he says they said. Who knows?
I think Ed is just playing with their minds. He knows full well they would torture him, or have him tortured in some other country. He knows too that the top ten thousand people in the US government are lying psychos who would delight in his torture. His announcement that "they" promised he would not be tortured was just a tease. Whatever else he is, he's not stupid.
I don't buy that Snowden is dumb enough to try to come back to the states. Most likely he is just initiating this discussion to remind the US citizenry of what treacherous banana republic our country has become. He gave his citizenship, family connections and everything he knows up to warn the population of what was going on, he knows he will always be an enemy of the state.
It's not just the spooks he has to worry about a large portion of the morons who inhabit this land hate his guts for the sacrifice he made and believe that TPTB only monitor us because they love us.... effing idiots.
Still don't know what to make of Snowden. Still believe he's an asset used to further an agenda.
Just my personal opinion.
Ed Snowden, NSA, and Fairy Tales - YouTube
Stay put ...
Way things are hotting up in the Middle East you can come back as president.
Snowden is controlled opposition and a fraud.
In the video @ 25:45 - snowden charged with "theft of government property", "unauthorized communication of national defense information", "willful communication of classified communications intelligence information to an unauthorized person"
It's a crime! It's treason!
But when the government steals our "property" (information), communicates our information within itself and to other governments abroad, thereby willfully communicating our information to persons we did not authorize to receive it, that's not only perfectly OK, it's noble and patriotic. Remember people, governments have rights, you don't have shit.
(Nevermind that what snowden exposed was criminal activity which has no right to remain private and which it actually is noble and patriotic to expose. The government had to steal our information before snowden could expose them for stealing our information. Apparently "government property" is what they call plans for organized crime these days. Welcome to Bizzaro US. The hypocracy and backwards logic will continue so long as the average voter is stupid and morally bankrupt enough to continue selecting it.)
Run Edward Run
Run Lola Run!
(Good movie)
People form governments to protect them from bullies. When governments become the bullies, we've got a hell of a problem.
Nonsense. Never in human history have people formed government to protect them from bullies. BULLIES FORM GOVERNMENTS TO GRANT THEMSELVES LEGITIMACY. That's been the modus operandi since Sargon of Akkad.
the US will probably wait for somthing really fucked up to happen and then arrest his ass so they can distract people with tons of useless shit........................
DUDE
They want to lockup
the citizens
that disagree with the gub
here now,
indefinitely.
executive order--WTF
#dropyourgunsobama
send some shit that will
stick
My thoughts exactly. They won't torture him. Bwaaaaaaaa. Checks in the mail, it's my first time and I'll only stick the head of it in. These are secretive government agencies. Anyone say anything about learning to fly on the 100th floor of a high rise? or chemical debriefing? Thought so.
A true Patriot and a hero. If you come back Ed, and I would never trust these cocksuckers with anything they promise, but if you do come back, run for the Senate or House. You are the moral fiber we need in Congress, not these assholes. Thank you for your revelations and support of the Constitution, my, and our fundamental natural rights like we are "supposed" to have.
come home Snowden, the government is full of people who dont give a shit.
.
prove your the better man, fuck let them torture you
YOU FIRST.
Let us know how you go.
"We tortured some whistleblowers."
Snowden may be a true patriotic man in an era of unpatriotic unnecessity from the government standpoint. I personally would not trial the government in this case. I would think that they would douse me with psychotropics and force me to fabricate a valid reason for doing what I did. Then put me away or execute me to be forgotten while they ran business as usual for their gain. This, I think, is the dilemma of what Snowden fears. Trust. Where can you go when you can trust no one? And Snowden really cannot trust anyone. Even the people that protect him are undoubtably being pressured in some way. He is a man alone against a huge security apparatus with influence all over the world. We made him what he is. We can't deny it as the facts are here and forthcoming. And you know how this ends. Somehow a seal team somewhere will shut him up. Sooner or later. Pray young Snowden. I fear you've gone up against a monster so much bigger than yourself.
The Old Man
There is always sepukku. Done properly, the whys and wherefores can be made obvious to even Rush Limbaugh, and the martyr becomes an icon for further resistance. Meanwhile, it's the ultimate escape. Even the NSA can't track you to your next life, and even if they could,even they would have trouble prosecuting the new you.
Snowden has many millions of real friends. He is not alone against a huge security apparatus. The entire New York Times Editorial Board petitioned the Whore House with the purpose of getting him amnesty, and the ability to come back to North America without interrogation by the MIC. You are just an Old Man with no balls left because you left them in your wife's purse, is all. Snowden stands up for hwat he believes in and America used to do that once upon a time, eh, Old Man.
Obama has essentially pardoned and released numerous REAL TERRORISTS from Gitmo but he would throw snowden in there, makes no logical sense.
It's because the USSA has become the nigger of countries. It just doesn't work and it'll carjack ya any chance it gets. Hell, it'll shank ya just for mouthing off.
Yep, the nigger of countries, it has become.
I wouldn't take their word for it.
First, obviously, there are many different definitions of "torture", and the U.S. has proven its willingness to use some, well, torturous definitions in order to avoid admitting to the practice.
Second is the fact that once in their hands, they will do whatever they want, regardless of what they promise. Just look at the treatment received by Chelsea Manning.
Third is the way that once sucked into the bowels of the prison system, a detainee is rendered invisible, and the eyes of public opinion that might otherwise restrain retaliation will be shut out. Once the doors close, not only can they do whatever they want, but NO ONE WILL EVER SEE.
Don't trust them, Cousin Ed. Russia might not be your ideal home-away-from-home, but it beats anything the Prison Industrial Complex has to offer.
Your reward for reporting the Criminal Acts of your Government, you'll be whacked before you get out of the Airport. That's JustUS American style.
If you think the regime is genuinely after this limited hangout operative shill then you are in a false paradigm and drinking the koolaid and thinking inside the slave pen they have designed for you.
Snowden is a pretty smart guy. Obviously, he wants out of the Novaya Zemlya of Opportunitski, much to the chagrin of the ZH battalion of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and has chosen an excellent time to make his play.
With Hillary on the firing line for doing the same thing as he did (but to a lesser degree), he can dare the authorities to prosecute him-- which automatically convicts La Clintonette of the same offences. Or they have to let him walk in order to let her walk.
No wonder they aren't interested in talking "Let's Make A Deal" at this time. He'll be spending Christmas 2016 in Magnitogorsk but might make it home for Valentine's Day thereafter. Depending, of course, on who wins.
Smart, smart guy making a proposal full of political dynamite.
If you listed to all the statist ASSHOLES that were interviewed....they believe all data belongs to them.
THEY OWN YOU and every owner wants to protect his property, no?
Fuck them all.
Stay put Eddy, Moscow is more Free then the USA today anyway.
Squid
I wonder if he ever mixes with the average russian on the street and if so, what do they think of him? Or does he live in isolation there too. I've been on a diet and get back into shape mission for over three months and so my only outings are to the shopping center a couple of times a week. I'm in a new place where I don't know anyone, don't speak the language etc. It's not exactly isolation but after 15 weeks I've got a taste what it's like to make and execute a longer term plan that it outside of your comfort zone. I'm planning to finish up in December and move to another place and I'm not exactly counting the days but it's certainly an education.
What is he worried about? Americans never torture anyone. Really.
"We dont torture, were a civilized Nation"
Au Pairs/Playing with a different sex_album title, from the UK
Giving up Russian women for American cunts IS torture
I would rather live in a 3rd world shithole FREE than trust this gov to do anything morally correct and keep myself out of the USSA and out of jail here.
No USA wife here is worth going to jail for the rest of your life, or even a month.
Gawd, Russia is a superpower AND they have hotter women with much better upbringing than here. WTF are you thinking ED???
Did the cia goon use some microwave ray gun and point it at your head from across the street? You're not thinking correctly!
If Snowden lands in USA
CabalA$$LickerHomObama will personally insert his std riddenDick in his innards
Careful there Edward, the US has funny ideas about what constitutes torture, for example drowning you over and over but not letting you actually die is classed as 'enhanced interrogation' not torture, holding you permanently naked in isolation under 24 hour lights in a freezing cell while depriving you of sleep is just considered to be holding you in 'humane conditions'
You are better off where you are, you have zero chance of a fair trial, God Bless you for your honesty and integrity.
Go Snowden! and Putin!
Relevance deprivation syndrome.
SPOT ON article. If Snowden does return, I can only imagine that he would regret his decision to return while rotting miserably in prison and coming to the realization that it would be decades before he even had a glimmer of hope of ever getting out. He is dealing with tyranny and a corrupt government bent on revenge because he shed light on how evil they have become in their wholesale trampling on civil and religious liberties. They should be charged with treason and imprisoned, including W. Bush and Obama, and Snowden should be welcomed home with great honor.
Yeah but he is the one bringing up torture, not the gov't.
It would be like someone that robs a bank and then says "I'll turn myself in if you don't torture me".
"Snowden Edward" is a fake name. It comes from the movie Network, apparent in the background control room chatter, right as Howard Beale is being put on the air and he goes and pops.