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Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman  

July 2013

Snowden No Hero

For anybody still naive enough to think that Edward Snowden is a classic whistle-blower, please note his choice of refuge: Russia.

He now seeks asylum in a country where scores of journalists have been murdered or jailed for practicing their trade. That country's leader, Vladimir Putin, has told Snowden that he will be weldome if he agrees to keep his mouth shut.

Rather than demonstrate his principles by facing prosecution for not only stealing but leaking his country's secrets, he has fled into the arms of a coutry that operates entirely in secret. He is not a whistle-blower; hs is a rascal.

Laina Farhat-Holzman


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