I think it is best for Snowden's cause that he stays in Russia looking down the barrel of a life sentence in a supermax. If he either ends up in Colorado or is

I think it is best for Snowden's cause that he stays in Russia looking down the barrel of a life sentence in a supermax. If he either ends up in Colorado or is pardoned then what the NSA was(is) doing will be quickly forgotten. Him staying in limbo keeps the issue in the public mind.