NSA leaker Edward Snowden seeks return to U.S., on his terms

[MADem]

10. Yes--and we can be certain that everything he had on him, the Russians got

while he was staying in the Russian consulate in Hong Kong, and the Chinese got when that reporter from the SCMP interviewed him.

He thinks his encryption is so tough, but things move fast in the cyber-world. It's rather like imagining that your Tandy computer with the a, b AND c drives is the fastest thing on the block!!! Maybe, for a brief and shining moment it was, but that moment has passed.

I think he misjudged how this all would go down, and I think he erred in placing his faith in the Russians. Unlike some people, it's my personal belief that he had something going on with them from the get-go, maybe even since he worked in Yokosuka, Japan (and vacationed in HK). I think he might have been flipped. I don't think he truly cares about "internet privacy." I think he's part of a long con.

The Russians may have sold him on the whole "You can pretend you're a whistleblower" trick, and he believed them. I think he's stuck now, and he's getting sick of Moscow. Not my idea of paradise, that's for sure. He'd better work hard on learning Russian, because he's going to have to adapt.