Snowden: 'No one trades spies'

Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 02/11/2017 - 2:07pm

The news media is full of reports about how Putin is considering handing Snowden over to Trump as 'a gift'.

U.S. intelligence has collected information that Russia is considering turning over Edward Snowden as a "gift" to President Donald Trump — who has called the NSA leaker a "spy" and a "traitor" who deserves to be executed.
That's according to a senior U.S. official who has analyzed a series of highly sensitive intelligence reports detailing Russian deliberations and who says a Snowden handover is one of various ploys to "curry favor" with Trump. A second source in the intelligence community confirms the intelligence about the Russian conversations and notes it has been gathered since the inauguration.

This is probably fake news, but I think Snowden's reaction is classic.

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Submitted by sojourns on Sat, 02/11/2017 - 2:35pm
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Submitted by riverlover on Sat, 02/11/2017 - 3:06pm
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We have been battered by trial balloons for >8 years. I grow weary of such.

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Submitted by Oldest Son Of A... on Sat, 02/11/2017 - 6:24pm
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What are we being distracted from?

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Submitted by Sunspots on Sun, 02/12/2017 - 12:14pm

Neocons still trying to stir up trouble?

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Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Sun, 02/12/2017 - 9:01pm
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@Sunspots @Sunspots
come next lightening storm they're going to crank her up for another run.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/hillary-clinton-is-runnin...

Hllary Clinton will run for president. Again.

No inside information informs this prediction. No argument is advanced as to whether her run is a good or a bad idea—there are many ways to make a case either way. Instead this is just a statement of simple facts (if facts mean anything anymore, that is). And the facts are clear that the former secretary of state is doing everything she needs to do to run for the White House one more time. If she finds a path to do so, she will take it. And I can prove it.

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At the moment, of course, the idea of another Clinton presidential campaign—what would be the fifth since 1992—seems outlandish, even exhausting. Who’d want to go through all that mess again? But four years is plenty of time for memories to subside.

And it’s true that in another era, a candidate Clinton’s age might have been deemed too old for the presidency. But in 2020, Hillary Clinton will be 73, one year younger than the incumbent seeking reelection.

Also in another era, her political career might have been seen as having passed its expiration date. She’s twice run for the White House—and lost. But Ronald Reagan didn’t think that way. He ran in 1968, and again in 1976, nearly beating the incumbent Gerald Ford for the GOP nomination, before his ultimate victory in 1980.

They're putting out the feelers now.

EDIT: I ONLY MEANT TO HIT PREVIEW AGAIN.

Anyway, Snowden better hope he can stay where he's at. Or find another country who will take him. This place looks like it's going to be run by lunatics for a while.

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