{"id":103915,"date":"2020-11-03T03:49:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T00:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/edward-snowden-shows-his-true-colors-by-applying-for-russian-citizenship\/"},"modified":"2020-11-03T03:49:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T00:49:40","slug":"edward-snowden-shows-his-true-colors-by-applying-for-russian-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/edward-snowden-shows-his-true-colors-by-applying-for-russian-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"#Edward Snowden shows his true colors by applying for Russian citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Edward Snowden shows his true colors by app<\/a>lying for Russian citizenship<\/strong>”
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\n It looks like Russian autocrat Vladmir Putin is finally making the adoption of his stray pet official: Edward Snowden announced Sunday that he plans to apply for Russian citizenship.<\/p>\n

The former National Security Agency contractor, who stole vast amounts of top-secret data, then fled first to China, then Russia, has been hiding out in Moscow for seven years to avoid standing trial on espionage charges in America.<\/p>\n

He downloaded an estimated 1.5 million documents, including info that would allow the recipients to avoid NSA surveillances, according to one of his press confidantes. No wonder Putin shields him.<\/p>\n

His girlfriend joined him in 2014; they married in 2017 and are expecting a son who\u2019ll be a Russian citizen by birthright. That\u2019s Snowden\u2019s rationale now: He says he fears being separated from his newborn (by who?) if their citizenships aren\u2019t the same.<\/p>\n

Russia recently eased its citizenship laws, removing the requirement that you renounce citizenship of any other country. Snowden says<\/a> the couple plan to raise their son \u201cwith the values of the America we love\u201d and \u201clook forward to the day\u201d they can return to the United States. Well, maybe a President Joe Biden will grant a pardon.<\/p>\n

In 2014, Snowden did a televised Q&A with Putin to deliver a softball question about Russian surveillance that was scripted by the president\u2019s advisers. The American later expressed regret for letting himself be used for propaganda, yet he has stayed comfortably settled in Moscow.<\/p>\n

He also denies handing the Russian and Chinese governments any confidential info \u2014 so far. Can he keep that up, once he\u2019s literally pledged loyalty to the Russian state? At a minimum, he\u2019ll find it even harder to convince anyone that his loyalties still lie with the nation he betrayed.\n <\/p><\/div>\n