Report: Snowden Stayed At Russian Consulate While In Hong Kong 107
cold fjord writes "The Washington Post reports, 'Before American fugitive Edward Snowden arrived in Moscow in June — an arrival that Russian officials have said caught them by surprise — he spent several days living at the Russian Consulate in Hong Kong, a Moscow newspaper reported Monday. The article in Kommersant, based on accounts from several unnamed sources, did not state clearly when Snowden decided to seek Russian help in leaving Hong Kong, where he was in hiding in order to evade arrest by U.S. authorities on charges that he leaked top-secret documents about U.S. surveillance programs. ... he celebrated his 30th birthday at the Russian Consulate in Hong Kong, the paper said — though several days earlier he had had an anticipatory birthday pizza with his lawyers at a private house. ... The article implies that Snowden's decision to seek Russian help came after he was joined in Hong Kong by Sarah Harrison, a WikiLeaks staffer who became his adviser and later flew to Moscow with him. Harrison, the article suggests, had a role in the making the plans. ' More at the South China Morning Post."
Re:Good. (Score:2, Funny)
Putin will put out!
Re:The NSA is violating the Constitution (Score:5, Funny)
It's interesting to learn about Snowden's eating pizza. It's exciting to know he's successfully evading getting caught.
But the NSA is violating the Constitution, the executive branch is stepping on the gas to increase it, the legislative branch is asleep at the wheel, the judicial branch is represented by a few rubber stampers appointed by a Chief Justice who I don't think has the public's interests at heart, the fourth estate is facing persecution like never before, and the citizens are so materially comfortable they don't do anything.
I feel like there's more of a story here than Snowden's pizza that might at least get the citizens a little less comfortable and a little more active.
No it's a fairly lame attempt by Cold Fjord to keep the Snowden story limping along so he can expose him as the treacherous bastard he really is. The grand old US of A is absolutely justified in spying on all citizens whether they are American or not, in order to protect the virtuous and unchallengable policies of the US Government and their absolutely legal and above-board (but necessarily and rightly completely secret and without accountability to anyone but themselves) spy agencies.
Well done Cold Fjord, well done, I look forward to your righteous trolling of this article in the name of unwavering and unquestioning patriotism.