Re:Anthony Levandowski Pardoned
by qwerty456127 on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @11:33AM
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IMHO nobody (including and especially members of the establishment) seriously believes Snowden or Assange are actually Russian spies, really. Snowden just had to flee to Russia because that was the only counterpart to the US which is sufficiently powerful and interested to possibly hide him and also just enough civilized&westernized to tolerate.
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Re:Anthony Levandowski Pardoned
by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @12:59PM
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> IMHO nobody (including and especially members of the establishment) seriously believes Snowden or Assange are actually Russian spies, really
I think lots of people think Assange has been (“is” is a murkier question) a Russian asset, but not so much a spy (someone who serves as an agent for collecting information) as an active influence agent.
For Snowden, I think that’s probably less common.
> IMHO nobody (including and especially members of the establishment) seriously believes Snowden or Assange are actually Russian spies, really.
If there was a Trump pardon, I guarantee every major news outlet would bring up their Russian connections and Twitter would lose its mind. What people "seriously believes" changes rapidly.