The Plot Thickens on Edward Snowden's Sino-Russian Love Affair [View all]

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You know how Edward Snowden - the hero of the anti-security libertarians - suddenly showed up in Hong Kong and then in Russia, and how the Russian government claimed that they had no idea he would show up at Moscow before eventually granting him asylum? Well, the plot just thickened a little. It turns out - and I am sure this will completely surprise every Snowden-Greenwald worshiper - that Snowden was in contact with the Russians well in advance of his not-so-surprising arrival in Moscow.

He lived in the Russian consulaate while in Hong Kong, and depending on who you believe, he either showed up on his own or was invited by the Russians, reports the Washington Post, quoting a Russian news source:

Before American fugitive Edward Snowden arrived in Moscow in June — an arrival that Russian officials have said caught them by surprise — he spent several days living at the Russian Consulate in Hong Kong, a Moscow newspaper reported Monday...

http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2013/08/the-plot-thickens-on-edward-snowdens.html