“Mr. Snowden, I Presume?”

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By Lukas I. Alpert

MOSCOW—U.S. intelligence-leaking fugitive Edward Snowden walks freely in the streets in disguise while in hiding in Russia, but his security is under such threat that a visit from his family could lead American agents right to his door, his lawyer says.

“He would walk past you and you wouldn’t recognize him,” Mr. Snowden’s attorney, Anatoly Kucherena, told the Russian magazine Itogi. “It’s a question of clothes and small alternations to his appearance. So I’m not lying — he really does walk freely around the streets.”

The former U.S. intelligence contractor has remained in hiding in Russia since being granted temporary political asylum on Aug. 1, following more than five weeks stuck in the transit zone at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. He had arrived there on June 23 on a flight from Hong Kong from which he fled after U.S. authorities unsealed espionage charges against him for leaking documents detailing top secret surveillance programs ..

Mr. Kucherena says his client has been living under heavy security at an undisclosed location somewhere in Russia and that all contact with him has been going through the lawyer’s office ...

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[11 Bravo]

1. Aren't Snowden's 15 minutes up yet?

[FSogol]

3. I'm sure Greenwald will leak some nonsense we already know about any day now, inciting a new round

of outrage. It has been quiet. Too quiet!

[Scurrilous]

2. Here's to Russian winters!

[MADem]

4. Well, how "freely" can he walk, if the lawyer says he's "been living under heavy security?"

I think Fast Eddie is an inmate in the world's largest prison.

I wonder if he worries about who is recording his keystrokes nowadays?

Naaah....he doesn't have to wonder--he KNOWS they are tracking him relentlessly. He has no privacy. And he never will, ever again. He's a specimen in the Putin Zoo.

And what is this nonsense?

The elder Mr. Snowden has repeatedly postponed his trip over problems collecting a visa and concerns over security, his lawyer’s spokeswoman has said.

The RUSSIANS issue the visa--why are there "problems" obtaining it? All "Paw" has to do is head for either the Russian Embassy or a consulate and get the stamp on his passport. He could do it by mail if he'd like. Send 'em fifty bucks, and they'll hook you up: http://www.russianembassy.org/page/general-visa-information

Something smells fishy, and this little article doesn't do anything to make anyone with a critical brain cell in their head believe that Ed is happy-happy-glad-glad and free as a bird.