Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed Tuesday that the NSA whistleblower is in the“transit” zone of a Moscow airport. This is a security-controlled area where passengers gather to wait on their flights. Passengers cannot leave the area and enter Russia without proper documentation.

Underwood, Madison.  “Edward Snowden is trapped in a 2-star Russian airport with no bar; here are the reviews.” All Alabama, June 25, 2013.

Existential Reference

Snopes.  “Stranded at the Airport”: “Between 1988 and 2006, a man lived at a Paris airport.”  Here is his story on Wikipedia: “Mehren Karimi Nasseri“.

“As ABC Newsman Michael Finney explains it, Weissinger checked one bag too many and incurred a $60 fee that she couldn’t pay on the spot. She hadn’t expected the fees because her itinerary failed to mention them. For security/terrorist-related reasons her airline, U.S. Airways, wouldn’t let her abandon one of her bags at the airport, and they also wouldn’t let her pay the fees once she got to Idaho. So she missed her flight, which resulted in another fee. Then U.S. Airways told her she had to buy a brand-new ticket, which cost $1,000. And this is how she became trapped in the airport.”

Gawker.  “Broke 99 Percenter Trapped in Airport for Eight Terminal-Like Days.”  Around November 1, 2011.  Source: Finney, Michael.  “Woman gets stuck at SFO for 8 days over baggage fees.”  ABC Local, November 1, 2011.

I’ll give the next to last word here to the New York Daily News:

“It’s obvious to all that the FSB, the KGB’s successor agency, could easily transfer Snowden into U.S. custody if it wanted to, but it simply doesn’t want to because there is greater reward in seeing the world’s only superpower thunder and grumble like a mark who’s just lost his fortune in an elaborate con.”

My guess is Snowden’s story will morph from a tale about spying and totalitarianism into one about mental illness with an emphasis on narcissism or another axis involving grandiose and messianic delusions.

Evidently, China has turned out not much interested in Snowden after all, and while stuck in Moscow, he’s become something of a political hockey puck between Obama and Putin.

“Snowden is a free person,” Putin proclaimed during a news conference in Turku, Finland, where he feigned annoyance at getting dragged into the closely watched incident.

“I’d prefer not to deal with this issue at all,” he said. “It’s like shearing a piglet — too much squealing, too little wool.

Miller, S.A., “That swine!  Putin wants O to squeal like a pig over spy, calls NSA leaker ‘a free person’.”  New York Post, June 26, 2013.

Those Who Know very well know what they have been doing in the field of Global Signal Intelligence.

From the “Iran Curtain” (Iranian internal control of constituent communications) to Chinese patent theft to American domestic collection and foreign hacking, there are no secrets that remain undetected forever.  Instead, perhaps, there are only agreements, disagreements, and arrangements involving the uses of massively compiled data.

Trailer to the movie, Terminal:

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