File under 'Fake News contender.' NBC News reports that Russian President Vladmir Putin is likely to hand fugitive former National Security Agency and CIA contractor Edward Snowden over to the U.S. in a bid to grease the skids for better U.S.-Russia relations.  Color me skeptical Snowden, you recall, is the little punk who once had it made: Living in a Hawaiian paradise, he had a $100,000 a year Booz Allen Hamilton job, no college degree, a security clearance, and as the cherry on top, a pole-dancing live-in girlfriend. He threw it all away and fled the U.S. in 2013 with a massive treasure trove of U.S. intelligence in squirrelled away on laptops and thumb drives taken illicitly. After that, he made a cockamamie claim about merely being motivated by concern about NSA spying on Americans, which in fact was nothing but meta-data of no consequence to the average...(Read Full Post)