Ed Snowden: Leakers “should be shot in the balls,” and "cut this Social Security bullshit"

[caseymoz]

361. Hardly. I dont' think he's near Venezueala

. . . or Ecuador. I hate to burst your bubble, but I think he's in the last place our government expects, and I think he's going to be well-treated, and with a brand-spanking new passport and identity. He's in the world's equivalent of the witness protection program, with our country being the world's equivalent of criminal organization.

I think nobody's going to tell us where he is, and the more the US asks, the more it's only going to be embarrassed.

You see, the rest of the world, including our allies, are really pissed off that the NSA was spying on their citizens. The things they've said about it have not been kind.

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I think it's likely they regard Snowden as a hero, or at least, they see he's done them a favor. In return, they are not going to turn them over to us, they're not going to tell us where he is. They now agree that the US is an Orwellian nightmare.

You watch how fast the Obama Administration and the entire US government stops talking about him. It's not going to be like Julian Assange. Your not going to hear Senators about about how we're going to have him killed or brought back to be tried for treason. They are going to shut up and try to forget this ever happened.

And we so screwed because of the way the NSA program has pissed off the world. You just watch what that does to the Internet architecture and to our economy.