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Cleita

(75,480 posts)
Mon Jun 24, 2013, 07:40 PM Jun 2013

Should we play a game? Where is Edward Snowden?

You have four choices:

1) He is still in Hong Kong. No one really saw him on the plane to Moscow or in Moscow.

2) He is in a nice cell in Beijing.

3) He made it to Moscow and is now in The Gulag in Siberia. Did you really think Putin, an ex-KGB would let all that intelligence go if in fact he really has four laptops of information?

4) He did get out of Moscow by train dressed as a woman and boarded an around the world cruise ship at the closest port with the intent of jumping ship in Panama to board a banana boat headed for Ecuador.

My money is that he's in Siberia for the time being until he is no longer useful and will then be extradited to the USA.

What is your opinion? Anyone of the above or another scenario altogether?

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Should we play a game? Where is Edward Snowden? (Original Post) Cleita Jun 2013 OP
Bieber's shag pad. Arctic Dave Jun 2013 #1
You win when he's found there. n/t Cleita Jun 2013 #10
BWAH! bigwillq Jun 2013 #11
Russian airport Starbucks while the KGB goes through his computers NightWatcher Jun 2013 #2
If that happens, I don't think he will be anywhere nice and comfortable like Cleita Jun 2013 #13
He's in Trouble. randome Jun 2013 #3
Neither Moscow, or Hong Kong nadinbrzezinski Jun 2013 #4
He's already in Quito newfie11 Jun 2013 #5
Maybe. How did they get him there so quickly though. That's a long trip Cleita Jun 2013 #14
Don't know newfie11 Jun 2013 #20
Tora Bora DURHAM D Jun 2013 #6
Channeling Osama bin Laden's ghost maybe? n/t Cleita Jun 2013 #9
Or, he could just be in Moscow as reported. longship Jun 2013 #7
Why would the trip be liquor free to Havana? Cleita Jun 2013 #15
That's what was reported this AM. longship Jun 2013 #18
Casablanca treestar Jun 2013 #8
At Waldo's house. bigwillq Jun 2013 #12
He either is or has been in Moscow -- Assange would'nt lie to us, would he? FarCenter Jun 2013 #16
Moscow airport bar.. Scurrilous Jun 2013 #17
The Ecuadorian embassy in Moscow LeftInTX Jun 2013 #19
Sydney nt Zorra Jun 2013 #21
Apparently, he's still in the Moscow airport. Cleita Jun 2013 #22
Last I heard it was Antartica quinnox Jun 2013 #23
He's with Colonel Mustard in the library with a candlestick! PennsylvaniaMatt Jun 2013 #24

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
2. Russian airport Starbucks while the KGB goes through his computers
Mon Jun 24, 2013, 07:44 PM
Jun 2013

He's waiting till Putin decides what to do with him.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
13. If that happens, I don't think he will be anywhere nice and comfortable like
Mon Jun 24, 2013, 08:32 PM
Jun 2013

Starbucks. More likely he'd be in a concrete windowless room with a bare light bulb hanging from the ceiling while tied to a chair while the KGB goes through his stuff and "asks" him questions.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
3. He's in Trouble.
Mon Jun 24, 2013, 07:45 PM
Jun 2013

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nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
4. Neither Moscow, or Hong Kong
Mon Jun 24, 2013, 07:48 PM
Jun 2013

I suspect we might never know...his traveling on papers that also help conceal his identity.

I know those refugee papers.

Though the NSA is looking for him in signals intel.

Watch the body language of principals...that frustration comes from...we were told no, and have no clue where.

newfie11

(8,159 posts)
5. He's already in Quito
Mon Jun 24, 2013, 07:51 PM
Jun 2013

Why would anyone that knows say anything about when or where or on who's plane is is on.

Just my guess. If I was him I would much rather be in Quito then Iceland or Moscow.

newfie11

(8,159 posts)
20. Don't know
Mon Jun 24, 2013, 10:57 PM
Jun 2013

Private plane early on or maybe disguised with fake passport and on a commercial plane.

longship

(40,416 posts)
7. Or, he could just be in Moscow as reported.
Mon Jun 24, 2013, 08:09 PM
Jun 2013

Possibly at the airport hotel where he can stay w/o worry as long as he's still "in transit".

Possibly at the Ecuadorian embassy, whisked away in a diplomatic vehicle.

Possibly at the Venezuelan embassy, as for the Ecuadorian case.

Flew out of Moscow to another destination.

Those are the four possibilities, the first three were all reported during the last 24 hours.

I don't envy those journalists on that liquor free Havana flight with Snowden's apparently empty seat to stare at for all those hours, undoubtedly with only their delirium tremens to keep them occupied.

longship

(40,416 posts)
18. That's what was reported this AM.
Mon Jun 24, 2013, 08:51 PM
Jun 2013


Just couldn't resist a playful jab at a bunch of journalists on a very long and very dry flight without an interviewee.
 

FarCenter

(19,429 posts)
16. He either is or has been in Moscow -- Assange would'nt lie to us, would he?
Mon Jun 24, 2013, 08:40 PM
Jun 2013

Putin is determining the optimal course of action for Russia.

What is the US willing to give for Snowden?

Scurrilous

(38,687 posts)
17. Moscow airport bar..
Mon Jun 24, 2013, 08:45 PM
Jun 2013

...watching Glenn Greenwald on TV, downing vodka shots, and mumbling "Why? WHY?"

LeftInTX

(25,365 posts)
19. The Ecuadorian embassy in Moscow
Mon Jun 24, 2013, 09:04 PM
Jun 2013

Last edited Tue Jun 25, 2013, 05:09 PM - Edit history (1)

I wonder if they will keep him there?
"We want to grant you asylum Mr. Snowden, as long as you stay 10,000 miles away".

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