Snowden Assisters Under Threat of Retaliation

[laserhaas]

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[pnwmom]

1. How the heck did this US traitor get these people to help him? This post doesn't belong here.

This isn't a site to help people who assist traitors.

[JCanete]

5. fucking christ. This is bs. How is he a traitor and not a legitimate whistle-blower? Really

unfortunate that we can shit on whistle-blowers on the left too, and make up total bullshit about how the person should have just used proper channels and trusted that government authorities would act appropriately. Or set the bar of good actor so high that only saints could achieve it. Sorry he didn't spend the rest of his life in jail to prove to you that he had the courage of his convictions...and didn't just want to live out his days as an exile in a place as lovely as Russia.

[Tavarious Jackson]

7. Snowden was not a whistle blower

he was a Russian asset before he even entered the CIA.

[JCanete]

11. do you have evidence of that? First I've heard of anything like that. nt

[pnwmom]

8. Legitimate whistle-blowers stay in the U.S. and inform someone trusted -- like Bernie Sanders

or Elizabeth Warren. They don't leave the country, travel to China and Russia with their stolen info, and take up permanent residence in Russia, like any good Russian "asset" would do.

[JCanete]

12. and then they stand to potentially live out the rest of their lives in prison. I don't buy that that

HAS to be the sacrifice of doing a good deed, and unless you've done it yourself, I don't have any reason to believe that's the standard you would hold yourself to. Its patently ridiculous.

[pnwmom]

15. He should have gone to some other country without an extradition agreement, not Russia.

He revealed himself as a spy and a traitor when he did so.

[JCanete]

16. That didn't reveal either of those things. That isn't evidence of those things. Please don't

set the bar that low on evidence of your claims.

[pnwmom]

17. He CHOSE to go to Russia instead of another country. He CHOSE to steal secrets that had

nothing to do with the supposed whistle-blowing. He CHOSE to act as an asset of Russia.

https://apnews.com/f661e0edb0e048d3adf4360293fed12a

Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee, said the probe revealed that the vast majority of what Snowden took had nothing to do with American privacy.

“The majority of what he took has to do with military secrets and defense secrets,” Schiff said in an interview Thursday for C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers.” ?I think that’s very much at odds with the narrative that he wants to tell that he is a whistleblower.”

[FSogol]

22. +1 The majority of what he took has to do with military secrets and defense secrets, Schiff said

So many DUers got conned by (and continue to be conned by) Snowden, Greenwald, and Assange.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

2. Fuck Snowden! nt

[gopiscrap]

3. exactly

[shanny]

4. ...

[uponit7771]

6. Look like great people but I don't trust anyone Putin is helping doing anything

[Scurrilous]

9. LOL

Now he's just making @#$% up.

[Egnever]

10. Wouldn''t publishing a picture of them make it worse for them?

Seems odd to me.

But then I have always thought Snowden's stories were a bit off.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. Good Catch!

He just made them easier for the retaliators to retaliate. Not the smartest move.

On Edit: Besides, what's the tritterverse supposed to do to help?

[tammywammy]

18. These lawyers are asking for donations to help these people.

I went to that website and all it says is these people helped Snowden and now facing deportation from Hong Kong. That’s it. There’s really no information supplied on the site that I saw. I don’t know what kind of help nor Hong Kong’s reasons for denying asylum. Though it does note that a very very low percentage of refugees get asylum in Hong Kong.

[BoneyardDem]

14. Bingo

Snowden continues to fuck people over.

[FSogol]

20. It looks like a poor photoshopped pic anyway. Look at the edge of the people cutouts.

[Blue_Tires]

19. What families helped him in HK?

He stayed in hotels on his own credit card and then became the guest of the Russian embassy...

[Blue_Tires]

21. scamola

Last I checked, Snowflake was the one with the book deals, movie deals, and $20,000 fee for online appearances... Maybe he should scratch out a check?