Friday, July 12, 2013

Snowden to seek asylum in Russia

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/07/12/edward-snowden-moscow-airport/2511207/

As expected Edward Snowden will seek political asylum in Russia while he can find a way out to sunny South America. Snowden said Friday that he has no regrets over leaking details about U.S. electronic spying networks and is seeking temporary asylum in Russia until he can reach one of the Latin American countries that has offered to take him in.

"That moral decision to tell the public about spying that affects all of us has been costly, but it was the right thing to do and I have no regrets," he told a group of human rights activists and other public officials at a meeting at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, where he has taken refuge since June 23.

Some of us are just wondering if he also calculated the risk of collateral damage by the means of endangering U.S.  military personnel and civilians when he reached his "moral decision" I guess it is perfectly moral to endanger your own fellow citizens at the expense of becoming a "defender and hero of freedom" and " U.S. "oppression".


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