[rtp]

As someone commented on Schneier's site, US would have an incentive to keep Snowden protected because if any enemy of US would kill Snowden, then the information would become public, and I guess US wouldn't want that. Personally, I haven't invested a lot of thought into this, just wanted to point out an interesting angle. :)

[WA]

Except that Snowden is not in the States, which presumably makes it harder to protect him on every step.