Edward Snowden: Babe magnet

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   burqa March 6th, 2016 at 07:03

   “Whistleblower”?
   Only a few percent of what Snowden stole related to domestic surveillance.
   Included in the loot Snowden took to our enemies in Red China and Russia were multi-year tasking orders. These are requests by various departments of the government, intelligence and otherwise that are used when our intelligence agencies conduct operations. Previously the Russians literally paid millions of dollars for this kind of information.
   By having these tasking orders, the Russians and Chinese not only know what we are targeting so they can be extra vigilant and/or set traps, but it also informs them of our thinking and what we have and do not have.
   In short, not only did Snowden reveal these strengths and weaknesses, he told our adversaries what we were going to be doing for years to come.

   So what if chicks write him mash notes? Same thing happens with Charles Manson.

   Plus, I don’t believe any of it. I have read about too many defectors who fled to Russia. They’d give press conferences and talk about their freedom in Russia and the pleasant life they were having when the truth later came out of how awful it was for them.
   Everything Snowden does is closely monitored. I don’t think the Russians will ever let him go because they do not want us to have a chance to debrief him and get a better idea of not just what he stole, but the questions he was asked and how he was otherwise handled is information our intelligence agencies would be strongly interested in.

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     burqa March 6th, 2016 at 07:46

     For some reason, the following, from my post, above, did not go through:

     Here’s how life in the Worker’s Paradise went for previous defectors:

     George Blake. MI6 officer.
     Blake defected in October 1966.
     Blake was unusual in that he was able to adapt more than other defectors to life in the USSR. This was attributed to his easygoing nature and his ideological commitment to communism. He lived in regret for betraying his country.

     Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess.

     Burgess defected with Donald Maclean in May 1951. He was unable to adapt to life in the “worker’s paradise” and was miserable, in part because of the intense homophobia there.

     Burgess drank himself to death in August 1963.

     Noel Field. Diplomat, OSS officer.
     Field defected in 1949.
     Field, his wife and brother were thrown into a communist prison on trumped up charges during a purge of eastern European communists. Field was released in October 1954 after testifying in a number of show trials of Hungarian communists the USSR did not like., Field stayed in Hungary and died in 1970.

     Victor Norris Hamilton. NSA employ

     Hamilton defected in 1963.

     Hamilton was eventually committed to a Soviet mental hospital suffering from paranoia and other mental problems.

     Edward Lee Howard, CIA officer.
     Howard defected in 1985.
     Howard sunk into alcoholism and died a broken man in 2002, allegedly after a fall in his apartment.

     Donald Duart Maclean, British diplomat.
     Maclean defected with Guy Burgess in May 1951.
     His wife later joined him in the Soviet Union and left him for Kim Philby.
     Maclean drank heavily until he died in 1983.

     Bernon F. Mitchell. NSA cryptologist.
     Mitchell defected with his lover and fellow NSA cryptologist William H. Martin in June 1960, unaware that homophobia was much worse in Russia than in the West.
     In 1979 Mitchell approached the U.S. consulate and tried to return to the U.S. The State Department examined his case, stripped him of his citizenship and told him to get lost.

     Harold A. “Kim” Philby. MI6 officer.
     Philby defected in January 1963.
     His wife joined him 8 months later but left him after she discovered his affair with Melinda Maclean, wife of fellow defector Donald Maclean. Melinda Maclean left Philby in 1966.
     Philby sunk into alcoholism and died in May 1988.

     Bruno Pontecorvo. Italian nuclear physicist.
     Pontecorvo and his family defected in 1950.
     Pontecorvo worked as a physicist in the Soviet Union, but “spent 43 years in Russia, where his scientific career was frustrated, his family was traumatized and his ideals were slowly crushed in the face of Soviet repression.”
     Pontecorvo died in 1993.

     Glenn Michael Souther. Former U.S. Navy enlisted man, civilian DoD employee.
     Souther defected in June 1986.
     In June 1989 Soviet media reported Souther’s suicide at age 32 following a nervous breakdown.

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