From Jeffrey Toobin at the New Yorker:
Snowden fled to Hong Kong when he knew publication of his leaks was imminent. In his interview, he said he went there because “they have a spirited commitment to free speech and the right of political dissent.” This may be true, in some limited way, but the overriding fact is that Hong Kong is part of China—which is, as Snowden knows, a stalwart adversary of the United States in intelligence matters. (Evan Osnos has more on that.) Snowden is now at the mercy of the Chinese leaders who run Hong Kong. As a result, all of Snowden’s secrets may wind up in the hands of the Chinese government—which has no commitment at all to free speech or the right to political dissent. And that makes Snowden a hero?
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I read this morning that Snowden has now disappeared.
If he ends up in Russia or China this will all WITHER AND DIE.
And in that case he is someone who received information he could NOT have had rights to himself and we have a huge conspiracy going on, and the receiver of this simply did a Kim Philby.
Daniel Ellsberg did NOT GO ANYWHERE.
Eugene Debs did not go anywhere no matter what we think of his ideas.
Emma Goldman not only refused to go anywhere, they had to DEPORT HER.
Edgar Snowden should arrange to fly home in the company of Rand Paul.
Otherwise this is going to be a view of another chapter in the atrophy of civil liberties by majority acquiescence.
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