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Re:Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency by slg on Thursday October 22, 2020 @01:36PM (#24860705)
I know almost no one on HN wants to hear anything bad about Snowden, but Greenwald has stated that Snowden has leaked some information out of self preservation. We can't rule out the fact that Snowden has given information to the Russian government.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150704033557/https://twitter.c...

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Re:Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency by dTal on Thursday October 22, 2020 @03:53PM (#24862621)
Maybe the State Department should have thought of that before cancelling his passport while he was in Moscow.
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Re:Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency by slg on Thursday October 22, 2020 @04:23PM (#24862885)
You are maybe right on process being misguided, but you are factually wrong on the timing. Snowden was in Hong Kong when his passport was revoked.

https://apnews.com/article/587786e6e63b4dc2b70c471606d7f584

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Re:Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency by ikt on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:21AM (#24868682)
Interesting, looks like he got out by the skin of his teeth as the US was on him hard but at the same time:

In October 2013, Snowden said that before flying to Moscow, he gave all the classified documents he had obtained to journalists he met in Hong Kong, and kept no copies for himself.[126] In January 2014, he told a German TV interviewer that he gave all of his information to American journalists reporting on American issues.[77] During his first American TV interview, in May 2014, Snowden said he had protected himself from Russian leverage by destroying the material he had been holding before landing in Moscow.[35]

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