Snowden is really up sh!t creek now without a paddle.

[Township75]

If Obama and Biden did this to Manning, who exposed mostly (maybe entirely??) stuff of the Bush administration, what do you think those 2 are going to do to Snowden who exposed what their administration is doing?!

I wouldn't want to be within 10 miles of Snowden when they get him. Sooner or later, the Obama administration is going to have something that Russia wants (state secrets, someone with diplomatic immunity in the US) and they are going to trade it for Snowden...and then they got his ass.

And if he thinks he can wait-out this administration, well, he should turn himself in before the Hillary administration gets hold of him....I bet that would be a lot worse for him!

[LearningCurve]

1. They wouldn't trade Snowden

Snowden would have an accident. This is Russia we're talking about.

[Township75]

2. Im betting Obama and Biden want Snowden alive...afterall, they need to know what was taken/released

and it would make for a better example if Snowden were in jail...maybe next to Manning.

[LearningCurve]

3. Russia wouldn't lose face in a trade

Not as long as Putin is in charge, at any rate.

[leftstreet]

4. Wait a minute. You're saying they don't know what he took?

But in your OP you claim he stole damaging information

[Township75]

6. There is an article out there with a title that...

the NSA is stretched thin trying to determine what Snowden took with him...that is why I wrote that they aren't sure what he took.

[leftyohiolib]

8. nobody knows what he took but (obviously not everyone)everyone says he's a traitor

[pnwmom]

20. He's CLAIMING he took seriously damaging information. But no one knows if he's telling the truth. nt

[Bluenorthwest]

18. You need a continuity tool. In your OP you said Snowden's leak was all about Obama and Biden

but now you are saying they don't know what he has at all. The two things do not mesh.

[LondonReign2]

5. So you're saying his best course of action

is to return to the US so that he can be sentenced to something greater than 35 years in prison?

[Township75]

7. I guess I did write that, and I should have written it differently, because the point I wanted to

convey was that any future administration is going after him....it may or may not be worse than this administration.

To be honest, I don't know what the best option is for him, because I really think he is up sh1t creek without a paddle now.

[leftyohiolib]

9. it depends on what he's got. if it's juicy enough it could be get out of jail free card

leave me alone or these launch codes get in the paper. leave me alone or i'll release the names and locations of all your assets. if I disappear the means to hack your drones will be published. that kind of crap.

[Township75]

10. Maybe

That could be a way out for him but I would have expected him to use that by now if it were an option. Who knows?

[The Link]

11. Snowden should avoid places that the Obama admin is not scared to send a drone.

[Township75]

13. Where would that be?

They seem to have no problem killing civilians in countries in which we haven't "invaded".

[The Link]

14. I think they would hesitate in Russia, or China...

pretty much any Euro country.

[TBF]

12. Is he? At least they're not reading his email anymore. nt

[malaise]

15. That's a simplistic analysis

Snowden will end up dead. Dream on if you think the Russians will be blamed.

[phleshdef]

16. Neither Obama or Biden did anything to Manning. That is an intellectually bankrupt notion.

Manning was prosecuted by the military and he deserves prison time because he released documents that had nothing to do with wrong doing or illegal activity. I don't know why this is such a hard concept for some DUers to accept.

[LordGlenconner]

17. (((((YAWN))))

[UTUSN]

19. O yaas, any and all of those nefarious Dems are just repulsive!1 (Sarcasm) n/t

[DevonRex]

21. Manning was convicted under the UCMJ

for crimes he committed, which he admits he committed, and for which he has apologized. With time served and good behavior he could be paroled in 7 years. That's also not up to Obama or Biden.