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Exactly. One can say that FSB/FSK hasn't got any more in debriefing than they would just from reading the newspapers. You can argue that the political value of
by varjag 10y ago
Exactly.
One can say that FSB/FSK hasn't got any more in debriefing than they would just from reading the newspapers. You can argue that the political value of Snowden for Putin far exceeded direct intelligence gains.
However saying that he wasn't debriefed is extremely naive. It's simply not how it works in Russia.
- phicoh 10y agoThe funny thing is, Snowden had no intention of going to Russia. So here you have a contractor who worked for the CIA and the NSA, and is clever enough to get a huge collection of documents out of the NSA and fly to Hong-Kong without anybody noticing. And then you force that guy to go to Russia and be debriefed there. Monumentally stupid doesn't even begin to describe that strategy.