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Its over for Snowden.

Russia hosted him as an act of defiance. Now, it sounds like they want to hand him over to our loose-cannon president. Trump could have him waterboarded at a newly opened CIA black-site and nobody would stop him.

This would be horrendous for a man who has done more to expose big brother spying than anyone.Trump will probably lock him up in guantanmo.

Still conflicted on Snowden, I get why he had to blow the whistle on the NSA spying on US citizens but giving away intelligence details to foreign powers and terrorists was beyond irresponsible.

Look at Putin and the 50Billion he has stolen from the Russian people.

The US signing of the Panama Free Trade Agreement led to more abuse of this tax haven. It’s no surprise that Bernie Sanders made this well known years ago:

“Well, it turns out,” Sanders continued, “that Panama is a world leader when it comes to allowing wealthy Americans and large corporations to evade U.S. taxes by stashing their cash in…

People have said for years the system is rigged to benefit the rich but now there’s this damning leak that can’t be ignored. Payroll workers across the developed world are paying 20% or more income tax with only a limited number of ways to avoid it (undeclared income from winnings or contractor income for example) while the rich and powerful…

There’s a flip-side to that as well: Money flowed back from tax havens into London to purchase real estate for the owners of these accounts and shell companies, no questions asked.

Many roads in this leak lead back to London. UK companies would use places like the British Virgin Islands to stage shell companies and funnel cash without a direct link back to them.

They did business for years with internationally sanctioned clients from Syria and North Korea before pulling the plug. Claiming ignorance and eventually doing the right thing doesn’t excuse this huge oversight on their part.

Mossack Fonseca provided a stage for tax evasion, deliberately hiding the identities of beneficiaries in some cases. I expect the investigation to clearly show they consulted their clients through evasive maneuvers to hide wealth.

A legend and hero to all freedom lovers.

Leave him in Moscow forever. His whistle blowing was reckless and endangered way too many lives and operations. If he has stuck to just homeland issues I would have more sympathy.

Initially I’d say he committed espionage, rather than treason. Given his treason charge, however, I think he started intentionally committing treason afterwards. If he really wants to come home, he needs to unleash a large swarm of pro-America propaganda to his followers explaining why we needed to understand the system that exists, giving…