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Don’t often hear Snowden mentioned these days. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/12/18/the-trouble-with-edward-snowden https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/
by VincentEvans 4y ago
Don’t often hear Snowden mentioned these days. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/12/18/the-trouble-with-edward-snowden https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/12/18/the-trouble-wi...
- dtech 4y agoHe is fully in the hands of the Russian government because he had to flee to a US-hostile nation. I don't think anyone can blame him for not putting his life at risk a second time.
- VincentEvans 4y agoI think his choices are not quite aligning with a hero and a martyr he made himself out to be.
- FpUser 4y agoHe had risked freedom and possibly his life for a cause. Having accomplished the goal his next most important task would be to save himself. That is what he did and I do not think he should have a slightest concern whether you or anyone else like it or not. Playing martyr would be foolish and I do not think he does that.
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoI don’t know what you’d expect him to do, he’s literally trapped in Russia and speaking out against Putin would almost certainly mean prison if not death. None of this changes the facts he revealed.
- VincentEvans 4y agoJust to be clear, whatever I said here - I have not said anything in defense of the information he made public and my issue is not with that.