While authorities could have done a lot to prevent her from meeting Snowden, it's telling that they didn't. The bullshit rules and hoops and legal shit for getting a visa and/or green card are ridiculous and take ages. (As a professional Canadian computer animator - without scandal, I've dealt with shit and even gotten stranded across the border - several times - for months.) There's no shortage of strings that may be pulled. IF they wanted to. Snowden's sex life is not the point. The lack of conflict and extra troubles where there could have been is.

I never said I was smarter than Putin. The game is played on MANY levels, and it's to Putin's advantage to not get involved and to let Snowden be, aka "give him refuge".

Can you prove that it's bullshit? I never said US intelligence was omnipotent, nor competent - but they certainly have endless funding, time and persistence, with a "particular set of skills" - and Snowden was not hiding. Ghislane was hiding. Snowden was doing interviews. He could have stayed "Citizenfour". Only Greenwald and Poitras knew his name. He could have handed off the data but they made a moderately convincing documentary about it - AND a fucking feature film.

Also, if you're afraid of China spying on you, what makes you think the Five Eyes aren't spying on China? Above all the nation states are the Zionists transnational corporations without boundaries.

Manning is also a limited hangout. People don't need to be disappeared or suicided, though there's certainly no shortage of that. Snowden was merely inconvenienced.

" These are domestically-based US citizens. "

Meaning what? The USA doesn't give a flying fuck about its citizens. It's denied them universal healthcare, taxed the fuck out of them for their global domination games, unleashed propaganda and psyops and staged events on them and there's no shortage of examples of the US government letting their citizens die, from Waco to 9/11 to Flint water to this fake scamdemic and destruction of the economic and food networks - and now pushing for toxic vaccines.

" You're paranoid. "

You're not paranoid enough.

TOR is verified very compromised, started by the Navy. All you need is enough TOR entrances and exits and you can determine who is sending what - and then you can brute force decrypt it. I agree though and suspect that it's not completely compromised. The government would tell you they control the sun and many would believe they have all the power - but they don't. They are often puffed up and always liars.

" You love video conspiracy theories. "

Truth. I can do other things while listening at 2x-4x speed and glancing when necessary - like reading and learning while multitasking.

" They lack rigor. "

100% Bullshit Prove me wrong. Tell me what is not thoroughly rigorous in "_ The Secret Life of Timothy McVeigh" or "_A Noble Lie: Oklahoma City 1995". They are among the best of the best. Certainly both are far superior to "Citizenfour" upon which the fundamentals of this conversation are in question.

" I doubt you know what you're talking about there. "

Perhaps you are correct. However I'll stick by what I've heard elsewhere repeatedly and say WikiLeaks doesn't need million$ to exist.

I agree, viva la revolucion! I'd rather limited hangout WikiLeaks have million$ than the MSM.

" confused maladjusted lunatic "

LOL. Sad but true. Neither of us know the real Snowden or Cruise, that's my point, not how we identify - but that we identify at all with cardboard cutouts.

Not everything needs to be an "effective dialectic". Time for you to watch those 2 docs and decide how effective they are.

" I live in China, and am free from USG rule. There are huge aspects of my life that the CCP has zero interest in governing. They have almost no interest in anything I say in English. Jurisdictional arbitrage is real, and that is exactly what Snowden employed. "

Just because your government doesn't micromanage everything you do doesn't mean you're not always under some forms of government. You may have freedom and autonomy but you are not in an autonomous zone.

My uncle lived in China for about 20 years, but got old and sickly, and moved back to Victoria, BC, Canada. He loved it there and would go back if he could. I would have liked to have visited, but I was always busy.

" The world is multi-factor "

Exactly. As I said, "the game is played on MANY levels."

" the great upstream causes "

Please explain more. I'm not sure what you mean by this, or the "historical cycle".

Go on believing in your fake Snowden hero. I like what I know of him. But I don't like the lies. Your faith is wasted on a cardboard cutout, but he's certainly one of the better ones.