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In reply to the discussion: Who's more honest: Snowden/Greenwald or the federal government? [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)Why is there any reason to believe that Snowden is living any better than crappy hotels and bad food? Of the three, GG is probably monetarily profiting off of this more than anyone, and I haven't heard anyone suggesting that he's suddenly living like a 'high roller'. So no, I don't know for sure what his living arrangements are atm, but I haven't seen any evidence that he's better off now than he was when he was making 200k a year, living in Hawaii with a 'hot girlfriend'.
Second, one of the main charges AGAINST Snowden before was that he knew what he knew years earlier, but waited until after Obama was in office to do what he did. Would a man truly obsessed with celebrity have waited years to be a celebrity when he didn't have to? Occam's razor seems to say to me that he did what he said he did - waited in hopes that the President would rein in an agency wildly overreaching, then went public when even a Dem president failed to change things begun under Bush.