re: #15 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

Hong Kong is a weird place that is semi-independent. It’s relationship with the mainland is very complex, but basically it is an enormous source of wealth for the PRC and they’re loathe to fuck with it too much. Hong Kong has its own law, it is not governed by the PRC’s laws. When they recently tried to expand police powers, it triggered massive protests and the law got shut down.

Yes, but the Chinese government will surely interview him at length. Even if he doesn’t give up any further classified information they could gain a good bit of insight just from tidbits. Even the story behind the work he did that lead him to leak would have value to an intelligence agency interested in learning how the CIA operates.

At this point the CIA is certainly proceeding under the assumption that everything classified that Snowden knew about has been compromised.