#Edward Snowden shows his true colors by applying for Russian citizenship
“#Edward Snowden shows his true colors by applying for Russian citizenship”
The former National Security Agency contractor, who stole vast amounts of top-secret data, then fled first to China, then Russia, has been hiding out in Moscow for seven years to avoid standing trial on espionage charges in America.
He downloaded an estimated 1.5 million documents, including info that would allow the recipients to avoid NSA surveillances, according to one of his press confidantes. No wonder Putin shields him.
His girlfriend joined him in 2014; they married in 2017 and are expecting a son who’ll be a Russian citizen by birthright. That’s Snowden’s rationale now: He says he fears being separated from his newborn (by who?) if their citizenships aren’t the same.
Russia recently eased its citizenship laws, removing the requirement that you renounce citizenship of any other country. Snowden says the couple plan to raise their son “with the values of the America we love” and “look forward to the day” they can return to the United States. Well, maybe a President Joe Biden will grant a pardon.
In 2014, Snowden did a televised Q&A with Putin to deliver a softball question about Russian surveillance that was scripted by the president’s advisers. The American later expressed regret for letting himself be used for propaganda, yet he has stayed comfortably settled in Moscow.
He also denies handing the Russian and Chinese governments any confidential info — so far. Can he keep that up, once he’s literally pledged loyalty to the Russian state? At a minimum, he’ll find it even harder to convince anyone that his loyalties still lie with the nation he betrayed.
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