Back in July, Vladimir Putin announced that Russia might give Edward Snowden asylum if he agreed to stop harming the United States, and then Snowden was in fact given asylum. But last week Snowden resumed his attack on his country, releasing documents exposing Swedish-American cooperation in spying on Russia, and Putin did not lift a finger against him. But if you read the fine print, you see that Putin's words meant nothing and therefore he will do nothing to stop Snowden from continuing to harm the U.S. however he can. Before Putin granted Snowden asylum, he stated unequivocally: "If he wants to stay here, there is one condition: he must stop his activities aimed at inflicting damage to our American partners, no matter how strange it may sound on my lips." Given this sweeping language, one might well ask how it could be possible that Snowden is still in Russia after last week's revelations from a new release of his documents that directly damaged Russia's American partners by...(Read Full Post)