New Dudebro conspiracy theory after the shameful Snowden appearance:

@WilsonValdez12 FTR, I think Snowden w/this and follow-up may have been TRYING to get Putin on record. Technique used by Soviet dissidents.

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) April 17, 2014

RIGHT! IT WAS A MASTERSTROKE OF GENIUS TO BOX PUTIN IN!!