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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSnowden is really up sh!t creek now without a paddle.
If Obama and Biden did this to Manning, who exposed mostly (maybe entirely??) stuff of the Bush administration, what do you think those 2 are going to do to Snowden who exposed what their administration is doing?!
I wouldn't want to be within 10 miles of Snowden when they get him. Sooner or later, the Obama administration is going to have something that Russia wants (state secrets, someone with diplomatic immunity in the US) and they are going to trade it for Snowden...and then they got his ass.
And if he thinks he can wait-out this administration, well, he should turn himself in before the Hillary administration gets hold of him....I bet that would be a lot worse for him!
LearningCurve
(488 posts)Snowden would have an accident. This is Russia we're talking about.
Township75
(3,535 posts)and it would make for a better example if Snowden were in jail...maybe next to Manning.
LearningCurve
(488 posts)Not as long as Putin is in charge, at any rate.
leftstreet
(36,078 posts)But in your OP you claim he stole damaging information
Township75
(3,535 posts)the NSA is stretched thin trying to determine what Snowden took with him...that is why I wrote that they aren't sure what he took.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)pnwmom
(108,925 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)but now you are saying they don't know what he has at all. The two things do not mesh.
LondonReign2
(5,213 posts)is to return to the US so that he can be sentenced to something greater than 35 years in prison?
Township75
(3,535 posts)convey was that any future administration is going after him....it may or may not be worse than this administration.
To be honest, I don't know what the best option is for him, because I really think he is up sh1t creek without a paddle now.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)leave me alone or these launch codes get in the paper. leave me alone or i'll release the names and locations of all your assets. if I disappear the means to hack your drones will be published. that kind of crap.
Township75
(3,535 posts)That could be a way out for him but I would have expected him to use that by now if it were an option. Who knows?
The Link
(757 posts)Township75
(3,535 posts)They seem to have no problem killing civilians in countries in which we haven't "invaded".
The Link
(757 posts)pretty much any Euro country.
TBF
(31,921 posts)malaise
(267,811 posts)Snowden will end up dead. Dream on if you think the Russians will be blamed.
phleshdef
(11,936 posts)Manning was prosecuted by the military and he deserves prison time because he released documents that had nothing to do with wrong doing or illegal activity. I don't know why this is such a hard concept for some DUers to accept.
LordGlenconner
(1,348 posts)UTUSN
(70,496 posts)DevonRex
(22,541 posts)for crimes he committed, which he admits he committed, and for which he has apologized. With time served and good behavior he could be paroled in 7 years. That's also not up to Obama or Biden.