Re:10 years after Snowden's first leak, what have we learned?
by mcv on Thursday June 08, 2023 @09:10AM
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The fact that he found refuge in Russia is a great tragedy. I strongly preferred that a European country had offered him refuge. Switzerland, perhaps? But US intelligence has long and strong arms, and I guess Russia seemed like the safest place at the time. And then Putin went full fascist and now he's stuck there.
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Re:10 years after Snowden's first leak, what have we learned?
by dTal on Thursday June 08, 2023 @12:43PM
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Russia did not "seem like the safest place at the time". He was en-route to Ecuador from Hong Kong, with a layover in Moscow, when the US State Department canceled his passport. In a quite direct sense, the United States put him in Russia against his will.
Re:10 years after Snowden's first leak, what have we learned?
by hayst4ck on Thursday June 08, 2023 @09:26PM
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> The fact that he found refuge in Russia is a great tragedy.
This really is the core of it. If it were anywhere but Russia, I would probably hail him as a hero who made a great sacrifice, but instead despite my general distrust and dislike of the US government, I feel like his motives deserve questioning.
I am open to being convinced that I am over emphasizing Russia. I am definitely no Snowden scholar and I'm not very well read past the various headlines and comments I've read over the years.