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In reply to the discussion: NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: 'I do not expect to see home again' [View all]totodeinhere
(13,028 posts)And just because he claims to have talked to a "bunch of people in Washington" whatever that means doesn't impress me either. And you would expect someone who worked for the CIA, an agency that has blood on its hands going back to its murder of Salvador Allende and its engineering of the 1953 Iranian coup d'état overthrowing a Democratically elected leftist government.
Julian Assange is in exile from the authorities as well although in his case he is holed up at an embassy. Brave souls such as Assange and Snowden know that they are taking great risks. And yes he will probably have to stay in China. That's obvious. The headline in the Guardian which I linked to quoted him as saying "I do not expect to see home again." China probably will not extradite him just like Ecuador will not extradite Julian Assange. But that doesn't mean that either Assange or Bowden are spies working for foreign countries.
Of course representatives of the military industrial complex and our spy agencies are going to say anything they can to try to discredit him. I'm sure he knew that when he made his brave decision to come forward.