Edward Snowden Is Almost Broke

[MADem]

178. If he'd only spilled the beans to someone on the Senate Intel Committee, like say, his hero,

Rand Paul, he'd have plenty of money--he'd probably have written his own book by now and been a regular on Fox and Friends pulling down a huge salary to offer up dozens of iterations of "Obama Baaad." Instead of freezing his ass off in Mutha Russia, he could be going on the college speaking circuit telling his audiences who deserved to be shot in the gonads this week (to riff on his Ars Technica rant about how he once felt about leakers).

GG is making a bundle off Snowden; I wonder if he is going to share the profits from the new book he's got dropping that is about the Boy Wonder?

I thought he'd gotten a job--surely in wonderful, liberal, surveillance-free Russia he's able to make his way? Or are the heating bills THAT pricey in winter in that neck of the woods?

Pootie's KGB -- well, they don't call 'em that anymore, but SSDD--will soon have him just where they want him (assuming they don't, already). His little Wiki companion has fled to Germany, leaving him seduced and abandoned, and all he has to rely on is his lawyer, Pootie's pal from the KGB, who will probably convince him that it's a great idea to "talk" to people in exchange for continued succor.

And once they do that, and get everything they want from him, until there is no more to give, they can either just not renew his residency certification, or they can make life so miserable for him that going home to America would probably be a viable and more pleasant option than any alternative involving continued residency in Russia.