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In reply to the discussion: NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: 'I do not expect to see home again' [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)that will end in some sort of "punishment" up to and including "suicide by international cop."
It's impossible to know what his motivations are, but all I can say is, someone who leaves a family that they claim to love, and a girlfriend they claim to love, and a great job with a salary I'd love to earn, and a house in paradise, has something going on.
It's not just 'patriotism' driving his train, or the whole "I don't want to live in a world where...." declarations, because there are other ways to fix the problem he seems to feel he has, and he didn't use--or even try-- any of the other avenues available to him. He went straight to the last resort, as though he wanted the big explosion at the end of the action movie.
There's program oversight happening WRT this covert program from not one, but three branches, and additionally there is a bifurcated opportunity to discuss problems at the Congressional level (House and Senate Intel committees). He didn't even try those routes before he called Greenwald (and why him of all people? Why not someone with a bit more cred?) and ran off to China.
That is a real puzzlement to me.
All I know is that there is MUCH we don't know. I can wait, though. Time always tells!