From downstairs:

New Dudebro conspiracy theory that it was all a move of Wile E. Coyote level genius by Snowden to box Putin in:

@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