> Cooperating or not, by being in Russia, he's helping Russia, which is why Russia has agreed to put him up. The question isn't whether he cooperated with or h

> Cooperating or not, by being in Russia, he's helping Russia, which is why Russia has agreed to put him up. The question isn't whether he cooperated with or helped Russia. The question is whether he had a choice. Given that the guy has been asking the DOJ for a fair trial for the last 5 years so that he is able to come back home, I don't think he had a choice. If he did not have a choice, Snowden is not helping Russia by being there, the US is helping Russia by forcing Snowden to be there. So I don't think this hurts Snowden message. Somebody somewhere made the call that it would be more valuable for the US interests to send a strong message against leaks than what they would loose if Snowden were to leak everything they knew to Russia. Independently of that call was good or bad, it wasn't Snowden's call.