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It is pretty much becoming something out of a Tom Clancy novel. You could easily imagine a situation room like you see in many a Hollywood movie tracking him. T
by rb2e 13y ago
It is pretty much becoming something out of a Tom Clancy novel. You could easily imagine a situation room like you see in many a Hollywood movie tracking him. Though Hollywood, this is not.
- ealexhudson 13y agoYou say it's not Hollywood - maybe Snowden will end up like the guy in "The Terminal", unable to enter Russia but unable to leave the airport....
- rb2e 13y agoMy guess is, he was put into a waiting car owned by a foreign government and whisked away somewhere or taken to another waiting plane and 'smuggled' out. But this has been planned with pinpoint precision and I expect there is a lot of 'back channel' negotiation/diplomacy being carried for safe channel to fly him to Ecuador or wherever. He will probably only turn up officially when he is out of arm's reach of the USA.
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- Sven7 13y ago"Pinpoint precision" gives the governments of the world too much credit. Reacting to developments on the fly is not exactly a strength. There was a (Reuters?) article yesterday that said the Ambassador of Ecuador arrived at the airport and asked the press where Snowden was...and I am expecting thats the kind of stuff that is mostly going on.
- coopdog 13y agoIt'd be interesting to know how those back channel communications occurred one day. One can only assume the NSA would be putting every scrap of their attention on monitoring anyone even remotely connected to Snowden.
- arethuza 13y ago"It is pretty much becoming something out of a Tom Clancy novel" In a Tom Clancy novel wouldn't the Russian/Chinese spy be fleeing to the United States?
- yardie 13y agoImagine? They actually have operation centers modeled after Hollywood movies. Complete with mood-lighting, wall-size monitors and trendy, ergonomic desks.