oh come on. we both know that after few years, when almost everyone would get on with his life, some bulgarian umbrella or polon would wait for him for such kind of leak (HUGE).
and being privax admin Snowden HAD access to a lot of interesting stuff, whole NSA infrastructure basically. the guys @ NSA are probably really angry at him, someone got really mad over there heh and still dont know what to do
anyway, I agree that he is not a traitor, rather someone like true patriot and international hero for human rights...but some of the documents that being leaked (like spying on other governments) in my opinion shouldnt be published if he really wanted to be 100 % clear.
but honestly maybe the recent wikileaks on spying on France and japan are not even from snowden's archive....
btw. calling Putin and asking him on live show if Russia is doing the same thing, was a ballsy thing to do. many people interpretet it by many ways(like he sold himself to Putin), but from what snowden was saying later - 'he just wanted to catch him (Putin) lying". heheh. guy with balls basically
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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
The article 275 of Criminal Code ( Статья 275. Государственная измена) says that max punishment for a high treason is up to 20 years in prison (our laws are not that severe as you may think), but I don't think it will work in a case similar to Snowden's here. As far as we know, Snowden did not sell any US military secrets and made no damage to the US defense system (he simple had no access to that sort of information). The only thing he did, he has explained how the US government is spying on their own citizens using anti-constitutional methods. So in fact he haven't done any damage to his country.
Thus I doubt he can be considered as a State traitor here. A lot of people do the similar things in Russia. They publish technical details on internal spaying systems (e.g. COPM, COPM-2, DPI etc) and describe the methods our special services and police use to intercept the information. As far as I know nobody was sued for that so far. This sort of information is not a state secret here. |