BREAKING: Putin: Snowden in Transit Zone of Moscow Airport, Russia Will Not Extradite Him.

[caseymoz]

110. You misunderstand. I don't believe they're going to kill him

I believe he'll be given the informal international equivalent of the witness protection program. Really, other countries owe him a debt. He has a new passport and his asylum to Ecuador was a deception. There's nothing sad about what's going to happen to Snowden.

As for the two lawyers, at least one of them surfaced today to say they're not representing him.

No, I don't think he's dead, and it doesn't look like Putin is treating him as anything like a spy. I don't think after three months on the job he had much more information other than what he's already turned over. It's funny how he disappeared on the way to that plane to Cuba.

So far, it looks like it's exactly what I predicted. There's been a lot of news these last few days, but I think the entire US government is going to try to switch the subject away from him and try to pretend this never happened. Nobody's saying where Snowden is, and bringing him up anymore is just going to be more internationally embarrassing.

I'm afraid they might try to go after Greenwald, though. See if they can get Snowden to surface.