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Vlad: Eddie might be allowed to remain in RU if he stops leaking - LA Times
2013-07-01
MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin suggested Monday that American fugitive Edward Snowden might be allowed to stay in Russia, and said the Russians would never turn Snowden over to our American partners the United States.

“If he wants to go somewhere and somebody will host him – no problem,” Putin said in televised remarks during a news conference in Moscow. "If he wants to stay here, there is one condition: He must stop his work aimed at harming our American partners.”
Easily done, you have the laptops and his "work" is finished.
It appears, the Russian president added, that Snowden has no such intention. “So he must choose for himself a country to stay in and move there,” he said. “Unfortunately, I don’t know when this will happen. If I knew I would tell you now.”
But I do not know, so it is impossible for me to tell you. But if I knew, I would tell you what I know, no ?
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  Shale gas. ( Effin' iPhone... )
Posted by: Lex   2013-07-01 22:54  

#3  Still behind the curve, B. Everything Putin is saying points to the fact that Snowden has outlived his usefulness to Russia. The game now is nothing more than a negotiation for a US concession: Viktor Bout? The Magnitsky Act?

Don't forget the most important factor here, hidden in plain sight: shake gas. Putin's slush fund, Gazprom, is collapsing, and with it, Putin's stick for bullying his neighbors.

Putin's hand s weak and getting weaker. He will trade this card while it still has some value.

Don't be played a second time, B.
Posted by: Lex   2013-07-01 22:53  

#2  Vlad: Eddie might be allowed to remain in RU if he stops leaking

As in pi**ing your pants? KGB hasn't housebroken him yet? So how are things in Russia?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-07-01 20:02  

#1  "If he wants to stay here, there is one condition: He must stop his work aimed at harming our American partners."

Vlad is such a kidder.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2013-07-01 17:35  

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