re: #137 darthstar

@nycjim Stealing classified intel and defecting to Russia may be contributing factors to his current condition.

— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) November 2, 2013

I found this part of that article interesting:

Mr. Strbele said he and two journalists for German news outlets met with Mr. Snowden and a person described as his assistant — probably his British aide, Sarah Harrison — at an undisclosed location in or near Moscow on Thursday for almost three hours. … At a packed news conference after his return to Berlin, he said he was contacted about going to Moscow late last week after the German government said Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cellphone might have been tapped by American intelligence agents. He declined to elaborate, but said he has had no dealings with the Russian authorities or the German Embassy in Moscow.

The speed with which the travel & secret meeting was arranged implies that Russian intelligence is directing Snowden or approving of Snowden promptly reacting to and directly interfering in foreign diplomatic crises that arise from his leaks. I’d love to know if it was either Harrison or Kucherena who contacted Strbele, and if one of the “two journalists for German news outlets” was Poitras for SPIEGEL.