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1. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 17:45:51 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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   Edward #Snowden became a #Russian citizen today.
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     https://nu.federati.net/url/287945 [www reuters com]
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     Now that he's a citizen of #Russia, I guess he can place his national loyalties there. In other words, he has little reason to hold back on revelations of what he observed inside the US government's security apparatus, even things that were not illegal / unconstitutional ... but still classified or at least non-public.
     
     Personally, I think that his revelations of unconstitutional data collection, routinely spying on ordinary citizens without even a "reasonable suspicion" with which to seek a warrant, should have been met with an offer of pardon ... which should have been conditional upon him testifying before Congress about what he observed. There was no reason for him to be forced to remain in Russia all these years, subject to whatever Putin's security apparatus demands.
     
     "Well what if he was really a Russian spy?"
     
     It would not have been necessary to give him the same job he had before and access to the same types of information that he had before.