The 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

The 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.