[randuser]

They should have killed the Snowden interview anyway because of all the stuff going on with Russia and Ukraine right now. Snowden's voluntary exile to Russia looks even worse to the general public and will overshadow anything he actually says during the interview.

[peterkelly]

sigh

How many times do we have to go through this.

Snowden is not in Russia by choice. He is there because the US government cancelled his passport, and demonstrated what would happen if he tried to go elsewhere by forcing the landing of the Bolivian president's jet based just on a suspicion he might be on board.

I think it's pretty likely this was deliberately done just so they could say "Look! He's in Russia, what a hypocrite!"

[DanBC]

The fact that Snowden has to go to Putin's Russia to escape the US and find freedom of speech should make people realise just how weird the situation is and iust how terribly the US and EU have behaved.

The UK detaining the spouse of a journalist for 9 hours, and the courts saying that was fine, was appalling.

[josephlord]

You missed the worst bit, not only did they detain him they did so under terrorism legislation on the basis that the information he might have been carrying might be useful to terrorists.

The fact that the courts backed this interpretation brings all the terrorism legislation into (further?) disrepute.