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Has US intelligence actually claimed Snowden is a Russian agent? People keep saying he is a traitor, but not whether he was always a spy or had been recruited d
by newsgremlin 7y ago
Has US intelligence actually claimed Snowden is a Russian agent? People keep saying he is a traitor, but not whether he was always a spy or had been recruited directly by the Kremlin. All that is being fueled by media speculation.
There is also the likely possibility he didn't expect to be awarded a medal for uncovering the US governments own surveillance program on its citizens.
- jonahbenton 7y agoPeople who claim to have been inside USINT have been vocal about Snowden being an "op". See eg https://www.google.com/amp/s/20committee.com/2016/07/02/the-kremlin-admits-snowden-is-a-russian-agent/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/20committee.com/2016/07/02/the-... Grains of salt with all of this of course. Even if you trust people like Schindler what they mean by "agent" and "op" is going to have significant nuance. Web of trust, shared semantics, and personal priors especially hard to reason about here, IMV.