Russia Eyes Sending Snowden to US as 'Gift' to Trump: Official

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Snowden's ACLU lawyer told NBC News they are unaware of any plans that would send him back to the United Stateshttp://media.nbcbayarea.com/images/652*367/AP_730582618628.jpgU.S. intelligence has collected information that Russia is considering turning over Edward Snowden as a "gift" to President Donald Trump — who has called the NSA leaker a "spy" and a "traitor" who deserves to be executed.

That's according to a senior U.S. official who has analyzed a series of highly sensitive intelligence reports detailing Russian deliberations and who says a Snowden handover is one of various ploys to "curry favor" with Trump.
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/Russia-Eyes-Sending-Snowden-to-US-as-Gift-to-Trump-Official-413453243.html

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How does everyone here feel about Snowden? Traitor? Hero??

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Traitor, butt he let us know were being screwed, so good

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If he had leaked to US media instead of going to Russia....maybe decent guy...going straight to Wikileaks and Russia.....maybe not a intentionally a Spy...but disloyal...and traitorous. at minimum espionage. There very moment he took the information off the secure machines he committed Espionage:

"Espionage (colloquially, spying) is the obtaining of information considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information.[1] Espionage can be committed by an individual or a spy ring (a cooperating group of spies), in the service of a government or a company, or operating independently. The practice is inherently clandestine, as it is by definition unwelcome and in many cases illegal and punishable by law. Espionage is a subset of "intelligence" gathering, which includes espionage as well as information gathering from public sources."