What information does Snowden have that the NSA is so concerned about?

[MADem]

20. He could be staying in a luxury dacha with super high speed internet.

Pootie Poot can designate ANYWHERE he'd like as a "transit" area that is not part and parcel of Russia proper. He designates the bus that takes people to the Novotel as a transit area, he designates the 2nd floor wing of the Novotel as a transit area.

If he wants, he can designate anywhere--from a penthouse suite in the best hotel in Moscow, to a cell tucked away in the Lubyanka building--as a "transit area."

Putin is king, he does what he wants. And who knows if Snowden "sold" his information or had it taken from him--either knowingly, or unknowingly?

There are drugs out there that will make you do whatever a person wants--and you'll look entirely normal while you're handing over your life savings, your passwords, your darkest secrets, to someone who has drugged you.

The Russians are pretty good at getting what they want. They are also very skilled in psychological warfare. If Snowden gets on a plane to anywhere, that'll be because they've hounded him out of there. The clock is ticking, Obama's trip is coming up in a month and a half, and Putin can't have it both ways--unless Snowden's Russian "asylum" turns into imprisonment, and a crew from USA is allowed to debrief him.