Tuesday, June 11, 2013

The hunt is on for Edward Snowden...

Edward Snowden’s face has been plastered on the front page of every major newspaper in the world. The Department of Justice has launched a criminal probe into his leak. The NSA’s security and counterintelligence team is on the hunt for him. He’s reportedly maxed out his credit card, and checked out of a Hong Kong hotel as of today.

And yet no one knows where he is — so what's his next move?

Upon perpetrating one of the greatest intelligence leaks in U.S. history, Snowden admitted to the Guardian that he had no good options for eluding capture.

“If they want to get you, they'll get you in time,” he said of the U.S. intelligence network.

At today’s daily press briefing, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was asked if the U.S. government knows of Snowden’s whereabouts. He declined to comment.

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“There is a complete freak out mode at the agency right now,” an unnamed former intelligence official told the Daily Beast.

It’s hard to believe that Snowden actually used a credit card to pay for his room if an elite security and counterintelligence unit was on his trail. Full story...

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