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Did Russia Trick Snowden Into Going To Moscow?
An anonymous reader writes "Ex-KGB Major Boris Karpichko says that spies from Russia's SVR intelligence service, posing as diplomats in Hong Kong, convinced Snowden to fly to Moscow last June. 'It was a trick and he fell for it,' Karpichko, who reached the rank of Major as a member of the KGB's prestigious Second Directorate while specializing in counter-intelligence, told Nelson. 'Now the Russians are extracting all the intelligence he possesses.'"
Does it matter? One nation wants to lock him in prison until he dies, one nation will grant him freedom. Is that such a hard decision?
//TODO: Think of witty sig statement
And how about the countries he admires, those stalwarts of freedom and liberty?
He thanked the nations that had offered him support. “These nations, including Russia [communist/socialist], Venezuela [socialist dictatorship], Bolivia [socialist], Nicaragua ["social democrat"] and Ecuador [socialist], have my gratitude and respect,” he proclaimed, “for being the first to stand against human rights violations carried out by the powerful.” Earlier, Snowden had said that he sought refuge in Hong Kong [China, communist] because of its “spirited commitment to free speech and the right of political dissent.”
China has a “spirited commitment to free speech and the right of political dissent?” Bwahahaha.