He's tweeted as much. People do ask him about it and the response has always been he basically has no contact with the government anymore and lives a boring mundane life in a city somewhere. Make of that what you will.
As long as he doesn't speak ill of his hosts he'll probably be fairly safe for a while.
I mentioned two causes why Assange should be excused and should not be trusted: physical isolation and being supported only by people of a mind.
Snowden is... where is he located exactly? Being hidden is a kind of isolation too.
And he is totally dependent on Russia. That makes all he says suspicious, at least to me. That's sad. I think he made something good and I feel sympathy for him. But again...
Edit: if isolated people end up approaching the ones hurting them (Stockholm syndrome), imagine what happens with people that are supposedly helping them.
My understanding is that he's pretty much free to move about the country.