re: #437 EPR-radar

Not so incidentally, the case for charging Snowden with espionage got much stronger when he fled the US to be debriefed in China and Russia.

If he’d stayed in the US, the Feds would have needed to prove a link to a foreign power to make an espionage charge stick.

As we saw with Manning, the most devastating charges went away when the government could not prove he was directly aiding a foreign power or a known US enemy. But as we all know, the fact that he could be charged is enough reason to excuse running into our enemy’s open arms.