Permanent Record a book by Snowden of controversy:
I have thought about this issue for days now. It reconfirms my suspicions about Snowden and the truth…First thing…
Taken from the inside of the book: First published 2019 by Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, LLC First published in the UK 2019 by Macmillan This electronic edition first published in the UK 2019 by Macmillan an imprint of Pan Macmillan 20 New Wharf Road, London N1 9RR
Now we are told:
Snowden Reportedly Agrees to Pay United States $5 Million From Book, Speeches – Sputnik International: MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked intelligence secrets in 2013, has agreed to pay the US government more than $5 million earned from his book “Permanent Record” and speeches, CNN reported citing court records. In September 2019, the US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the whistleblower over claims that he violated non-disclosure obligations by not submitting his original autobiography to the government for review before publishing. A federal judge ruled in December that the US government was entitled to all the profits from the original version of the autobiography due to this violation. According to the plan to which Snowden and the administration of US President Donald Trump agreed, the money is to be put in a trust. An attorney for Snowden said the agreement filed in court Tuesday did not mean the US government would be able to take the money immediately, as Snowden was considering an appeal against the judge’s previous ruling that he was liable for the disclosures, CNN said.Snowden has been living in Russia since 2013. He fled the United States after leaking classified documents showing that the National Security Agency was collecting the telephone records of millions of US citizens. He is wanted in the United States on espionage charges.
That gave me pause in my thoughts. I kept asking, “Why?” Why did he publish a book in the UK system? Why does a man being hunted and threatened publish a book through the UK system? The UK basically is the same as publishing through the USA system…
With so many places around the world to publish the book? So many places to publish the book free of the bully called by me, “The Western Empire!” Why? Did he publish a book that he allowed an easy access to his earnings. He is in Russia and did not have a good relationship with the USA and or the UK at the time he published the book and as it sits right now, he still does not have any relationship but to be jailed for life, if lucky…
So I ask, “Why did he not publish the book with a Russian, Chinese even a Mongolian Publisher?” There are plenty of them!
That leads to my second thought:
Either he is a bonafide patsy, or he is a sham..
Hell, even if he just looked at the web and surfed about the repression that the USA does against websites? He would have found WtR has been molested (financially, hosting, DDoS attacks, lawyer letters of cease and desist on certain subjects and twenty other whatnot’s ) for many years by the sweet and liberty guises of the USA…
Snowden made at least $5 million dollars that we are told of. He lives in Russia. He is safe in Russia. Russia will never hand him over, unlike the situation being played out for mass consumption over Assange with the UK and the USA…
He has given the USA his money from book sales and speeches. Given it by default of using USA and or UK lap puppy services. Do you see Russia demanding his money? Money he made while living in Russia, under the protection of Russia….No, I don’t see that either….he lives the life of Riley in Russia…
Tidbit: Snowden; never use your name, wife’s name, families name and or dogs name on anything to do with money/taxes/liens/judgments and the USA. Find that one Russian who is loyal beyond all doubt and they can help you keep your money safe. Very likely Snowden has put his family in America at risk of foreclosure, for the USA will take it from whomever they can easily get to…
That family connection? May be very well why he will give up the money? The GOV will take his parents money, if they cannot get his!
So then I am able to conclude:
As I have been saying from the beginning; The situation around Snowden is not what it seems. His actions and doings are not of a man who is suppose to be as intelligent as he is. The moves he made from the beginning of his escapades (On June 23, 2013, Snowden flew from Hong Kong to Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport) to this latest folly (Permanent Record). Does not instill confidence in all that Snowden proclaims and does…
I can accept issues at first about panicking and not understanding the extent of the USA and ability to destroy you when they want your life snuffed. Yet he had first hand information on exactly what the USA and friends will do! Yet again, after all these years living in Russia, I would have to say that Snowden should have become able to see see the forest for the trees…
Thus, without a doubt, “Either he is a bonafide patsy, or he is a sham…”
Either way he does not instill confidence in what he has done and tries to do. He keeps being handed silver platters and not many of us can find those silver platters in life….as he fumbles them and keeps longing for a home/government that hates him…
At the games end we shall see who gains. – George Herbert
Yes we will see and I think as always, we will be very disappointed in what we have been lead to believe from the start…
Sounds par for the course!
WtR