From Echo Moskvy:
Edward Snowden categorically denies the suggestions of a number of American politicians who think he is a Russian spy
Former employee of the US’s NSA told the New Yorker magazine that he’s not being helped by anyone. He clearly and unambigiously worked on his own. According to Snowden, the American people are more intelligent than politicians think. Explaining his position, he reminded us that before his arrival in Moscow, he visited Hong Kon, and then spent a long time at Moscow airport. Snowden confirms that he never expected to ask for asylum in Russia.
Comments from Echo Moskvy:
arye_03:
Snowden’s right about one thing, he never expected Russia to be his haven. Even now he wants to get away, anywhere but Russia. It’s a shame no-one else will take him. The poor bloke will have to learn to drink vodka from the bottle and piss in stairwells.
pekov:
Let Snowden rot completely in Russia. Russians are running away from Russia at full speed, those that can, but this idiot climbed right into its arsehole. Let him try and live here now.
pekov:
Imagine he admitted it. I admit, I’m a Russian spy. He doesn’t want to. He’s ashamed of being a Russian spy. Scum. You stooges? Live quietly as snitches. You’re shameless.
dimitrov_bz:
I said this summer when we were all saying that he’d head off to Latin America, that only Russia could protect him, and it’d hardly come into his head. That doesn’t mean that Russia is right and America is the world police. It’s like Muhammad, the creator of Islam, his “poems” in Mecca when he was weak were peaceloving. When he was in Medina, there were military forces there and his poems became impudently anti-humanist. They overruled his earlier work.
evgolius4:
We’ve got our Snowden. We found ourselves a hero. Then we can justify what General Vlasov did. He fought not against the motherland, but he hated Stalin and his regime. As Vlasov himself said. The logic with Snowden is the same.
linrenta: (responding to above)
Vlasov shot and killed his own, while Snowden told people about their rights being violated by those who were supposed to protect them, ie: the USA!
evgolius4: (responding to above)
Vlasov himself didn’t shoot anyone. He was in Berlin.
bosen48: (responding to above)
No need for fairytales about Vlasov, you’re better off reading his biography.
alexw_spb:
I wonder if an employee of the FSB’s Computer Center released intelligence in the press and ran to America if he would be considered an American spy? :)
bosen48: (responding to above)
You lot would say he was a warrior against the “bloody regime”.
albie:
He’s not a Russian spy, he’s an American idiot, why would Russia need an American idiot when she has enough of her own already?
sg_74:
Snowden saw on the toilet wall in the airport “Snowden is an animal and a Russian spy”. He meticulously crossed out the word “spy” and wrote “intelligence officer” above it.
vladplaxov:
He’s nothing but a miserable traitor.
