Is Vladimir Putin, tired with Edward Snowden recasting himself as Tom Hanks in the Moscow transit terminal, about to send the NSA whistleblower packing, bound and gagged, and gift wrapped back to Obama? It increasingly appears so. Reuters reports [5]that, in a sudden and abrupt shift to the previously defiant tone out of Putin, Russia's FSB federal security agency and its U.S. counterpart, the FBI, are in talks over the fate Edward Snowden, who is stuck at a Moscow airport, Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said on Friday. Dmitry Peskov said the Kremlin was not involved in talks over the 30-year-old American, who is wanted by the United States on espionage charges.
So did Snowden commit a huge strategic blunder by going to Russia in hopes the Russian leader will have infinite patience with the ongoing political drama which is making the Big Brother administration angrier by the day?
We may very soon find out. And what happens if and when Snowden is held in a maximum security penitentiary somewhere in the continental US - just how will Obama react to the countless supporters who line up to voice their support at any given such location? The people demand to know.