Ha! Edward Snowden is still at the Moscow airport, and Vladimir Putin is defending himself from American charges that he is helping hide a criminal. Putin says that Mr. Snowden’s arrival was “a complete surprise for us”.
This would all be very nice except that the Guardian reported a few days earlier that Russia offered to consider a political asylum request for Snowden as soon as he fled the U.S., even though Snowden had not submitted any such request to them. They immediately volunteered themselves as a possible location for him…but now Putin is completely surprised by this turn of events! Perhaps he is just amazed that anyone would actually take him at his word?
eurobrat 
06/26/2013 at 4:48 am
How he enjoys these games, Mr. Putin!! “What me???”
But hey, when brave young people escape the evil supressive United States and seek refuge in “free” Russia, the world is truly upside down.
06/26/2013 at 6:38 pm
No kidding! A few days ago I heard a right-winger praising Snowden for planning to go to Cuba…my world felt a little off balance just then 🙂
06/26/2013 at 8:01 pm
This Snowden guy is such an idiot. What is going to keep Russia from getting a hold of everything the dude has on his laptop and from his brain (buy friendly or not so friendly cohersion–keeping him “in transit” until they know everything he knows. Putin cares only for himself. I think Snowden is going to rue the day he ever stepped foot into Russia.
06/26/2013 at 8:46 pm
I’m sure the old KGB is working him for every piece of data they can get. If this is somehow part of a struggle for freedom and privacy, it sure isn’t working out the way it was supposed to.
06/28/2013 at 10:15 am
Very good point. Seems like he’s got NO idea what kind of country Russia really is. And what they really think of “traitors” (as they would see him) like Snowden. Why on earth would they let him go? He’s pure gold on so many levels for them….
07/01/2013 at 11:20 am
Exactly. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Russians double cross him…pump him for all the information they need and then, once they’ve gotten everything from him, hand him back over to America as a fake gesture of “goodwill”.
Or, they’ll just kill him.