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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
I think my explanation explains that ;) - You don't steal state secrets from the US and run to Canada. You have to be somewhere where there is an interest in not being handed right back over or somewhere where you have those guarantees. We are not aligned with them politically which is precisely why this is important to them politically and why he has value both as a pawn and the intel he has as well has value. Where do you think a Russian agent is going to escape to with sensitive Russian state secrets? Ukraine? Probably he will run straight to the US or somewhere outside of their influence and somewhere where that nation has an interest in using him against his former country for political gain.
At the end of it all, he did what he was motivated to do. Motivated by who? By what? Those are the only questions that matter and most likely will come out when he is formally charged after an investigation is completed. At the end of it all, motivation is usually ego, power, fame/notoriety or money or any combination... and always disguised as some altruistic idea of justice/right and wrong.
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well, the story was out though right? the guardian and the wp ran the story, it didn't matter where he was then, except usa or a non-aligned nation, either of those is not really thinking, you know what i mean?
here's a good blurb that better states it
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Hong Kong is not a sovereign country. It is part of China ? a country that by the libertarian standards Edward Snowden says he cares about is worse, not better, than the United States. China has even more surveillance of its citizens (it has gone very far toward ensuring that it knows the real identity of everyone using the internet); its press is thoroughly government-controlled; it has no legal theory of protection for free speech; and it doesn?t even have national elections. Hong Kong lives a time-limited separate existence, under the ?one country, two systems? principle, but in a pinch, it is part of China.
In 2006, Hong Kong passed a surveillance law that makes the programs Snowden leaked seem weak in comparison. The New York Times reported that this law gave ?broad authority to the police to conduct covert surveillance, including wiretapping phones, bugging homes and offices and monitoring e-mail.? Furthermore, the paper wrote, the law limited defense lawyers from questioning such surveillance during trials.
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moreover, it seems to me that goes not only to his lack of intelligence, but to his motivation as well, his exact words in the original telegraph interview:
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Edward Snowden: 'I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things'
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so he jets to hong kong AND russia?
none of that adds up right?