Snowden Granted Temporary Asylum In Russia

The man committed a crime. Like Manning, he should be put on trial. He knew what he was doing, he knew it was illegal.
If he was truly a whistleblower, he'd have taken his information to a member of the Congress/Senate and then had the relevant protections.

Why would he take it to someone who is almost certainly in on the corruption?

It's the stinking hypocrisy of this that gets me. When someone defects from Assad's government and leaks government secrets to US intelligence, they praise that person for "standing up for human rights". But when someone exposes the US government's crimes against their own people, they call him a "traitor" and a "terrorist".

I am not condoning what the US has done in any way, shape or form.

But two wrongs don't make a right. Yes he exposed an illegal activity but he did so by breaking the law.


And by the by, considering that well over half the Congressmen/women and Senators - from both sides of the aisle - are up in arms about it, I don't think that (the part about other politicians putting him up against the wall) would be the case.

Einstein should have been sent back to Nazi Germany immediately?

If he was truly a whistleblower, he'd have taken his information to a member of the Congress/Senate and then had the relevant protections.

That's different, as it wasn't a law shared by every nation. It was one of what many viewed as a rogue state.

That's different, as it wasn't a law shared by every nation. It was one of what many viewed as a rogue state.

To those who would criticise Snowden for doing what he did and then taking asylum in an oppressed state like Russia, how much do we really value freedom if whistleblowers have to run from us?

Not only is the US viewed as many by a rogue state, it is a rogue state when it comes to the application of international law.

Contradiction. Double standard.

Edit: Beaten to it.

Glad someone has had the balls to stand up the Americans, and that he's been given temporary asylum. I hope he's gets a permanent status and Putin tells Obama to go **** himself.

Every nation has a law against leaking classified documents, the US isn't alone in that.

In China the bible is a classified document. Should we send dissidents back to China that leaked the bible?

The Bible isn't 'classified' in China, and even if it was, we're talking about NSA documents, and every country has laws against leaking THOSE KINDS of classified documents.

No they don't most countries don't spy on their own citizens. Those that do are often called police states.

That doesn't make it a police state, and all governments will "spy" on their citizens to an extent. This is just a case of the US' system being revealed, I've no doubt many other countries have similar systems. Tempora being an example.
I also suggest that you look into the extent to which PRISM "spied" on people.

Every nation has a law against leaking classified documents, the US isn't alone in that.