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In reply to the discussion: Snowden: NSA employees routinely pass around intercepted nude photos [View all]Imajika
(4,072 posts)Hanging around in Putin's Russia, the country that almost certainly had a hand in bringing down a commercial jet killing 298 people because Putin continues to send heavy weapons and train thugs in an attempt to destabilize the Ukraine.
Hard to have any respect for a whistleblower that runs away and hides out in Russia. Russia of all places - that just seized a chunk of a neighboring country, stifles all meaningful dissent, and sides with the worlds worst nations like North Korea. If he returns home and faces the music many might change their views of him, as long as he is hiding like a coward in a place like Russia it's hard to get past the view that he is simply guilty of espionage and deserves little sympathy - even IF his intentions were good. And as that goes, many spies have had good intentions, thinking they were on the right side of things - doesn't mean they were hero's or that we can let them get away with violating the law.
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