Snowden: Obama Using "Citizenship As A Weapon"

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10. He could come back to the US

That's the point. And he'd still be a citizen. A citizen who would have to face the charges levied against him, and would have to stand trial. That's what people who perform acts of civil disobedience do. That's what Ellsberg did: voluntary presented himself to the court. He didn't flee the country.

The statement that he has no citizenship, in the OP, is 100% false.

Edward Snowden is the master of his own fate. He chose to take all the documents, which is certainly an act that was up to him to do. But it was illegal and he knew it was illegal. Rather than standing some principled ground by submitting to a trial, he chose to flee to Hong Kong, and then Russia, in an attempt to get Ecuadorean asylum. His predicament is entirely his own.

If he's a man without a country now, it was by his own choice.