Quote:
Originally Posted by dyna mo
the timing of the letter is important, wouldnt you agree?. snowden said just days ago the comment about being torture proof. this is in reponse to that. a month into this, all the diplomacy was happening over the 1st few days snowden got there. other than the latin america silliness yet nothgin from holder about this or anything in fact.
the funny thing, which i neglected to mention in my previous comment, is now snowden is saying he wants to stay and live in Russia and study Russian culture.
|
You are paying a lot more attention to this than me. I don't know about the timing of anything but I am fairly confident in the sequence of events and how it will play out and whats happened so far. My view is that what ever will happen was decided long ago.
I read about this letter and considered that to be a matter of course as part of shutting down an asylum request.
Every thing in the press to me is just theater and posturing. As I said from the start, Snowden was fucked and trapped... and trapped with people that will make very sure they've gotten everything he has, then throw him away because at that point, he has zero value to anyone.
All we are seeing is the second 1/2 of the 3rd and final act of the play. The hero's light has faded. The story is dying. Julianne Assange took a symbolic and futile shot and missed. A few banana republics had their 15 seconds. Russia has milked what little political capital they can from him... The US is trying to get him back without coming off as (or be perceived as) hostile savages - which is tough, given the US created this mess.
All that is left is for the final back and forth of face saving for Russia/US and Snowden will be en-route and in custody by the FBI and on his was to the USA before press knows he left the airport.