Why torture won't work on Snowden...
He doesn't know or have access to all the keys to the encrypted information.
No one person does.
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his own game. Thing is, Russian law allows Putin to kill anybody he wants to, to get any information he wants to. Or he can just kill them for the fun of it. Just say he's a terrorist. The law passed in 2006 specifically says that. The FSB is authorized to kill anybody Putin says is a terrorist. Snowden, Greenwald, their friends, coworkers.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/11/AR2006121101434_2.html
"The FSB can take action against any kind of danger that it sees -- not just terrorism but political and economic dangers," said Andrei Soldatov, editor of Agentura.Ru, an Internet publication that monitors the security services. "Now the FSB is more powerful than the KGB was."
The FSB's multiple briefs include intelligence, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, economic crime, electronic espionage, border control, social monitoring and, some observers claim, responsibility for the country's computerized election system.
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This summer, Russia's security services, including the FSB, were given the legal power to hunt down and kill terrorism suspects overseas if ordered to do so by the president.
"This is a preventive measure," said Anatoly Kulikov, deputy chairman of the security committee in the lower house of parliament, after the passage in July of legislation giving Putin the right to deploy stealth forces against enemies of the state. "This should cool down, at the very least, people who are nurturing their own ideology of force and other such intentions. They must know what they can expect." END
Renember Alexander Litvinenko, a former FSB agent that was killed in London with poison? That was a direct result of this law, although the Russians claim it's only used in so-called "failed states" and that in other countries they go through their intelligence agencies. I suppose MI6 must've refused to assassinate him for the Russians. That was sarcasm.
Did you read the Der Spiegel article about the information Snowden gave them? If not, do SSO. There are 2 very important things in it. First is the level of cooperation between Germany and the U.S. Germany is prohibited from collecting Intel on its own citizens. We do it for them. That is in there. Although Der Spiegel rushes over it. The second is that they didn't publish what they were given because it endangered real people who work at NSA. And they found that to be objectionable and needless. So do I.
There's one more thing I had a problem with. They said it's possible that the U.S. is even spying on Merkel!!!ELEVENS!! Oh, come ON. This is a partnership. As Der Spiegel noted. A mutually beneficial partnership. We get to be there to spy on Russia (and Slavic countries and jihadist terrorist cells) as long as we collect the data Germany wants. But, Germany is not prohibited from detecting cyber attacks and infiltration. They'd know in a second if anyone pierced their shields. They are among the best at cyber security. Perhaps the best. The reason? Because they do not, as a nation, engage in cyber intelligence on a huge scale. Although they do much more than their citizens are aware of. Purely for defense, you see. 
Including over half of America.
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