Freedom to travel? Edward Snowden's Russian refugee documents that allowed him to leave Moscow's international airport on Aug. 1. (Maxim Shemetov / Reuters)
Snowden Revelations Help Fuel Russia's Spy Machine -- Brian Stewart, CBC
NSA leaks only strengthening the hard men surrounding Vladimir Putin.
The vast empire of intrigue that is Russia's spying apparatus must be hard pressed to believe its good fortune these days.
A succession of global secrets seems to be pouring in from either its own efforts or American whistleblowers, with each new round strengthening the hand of Moscow's already powerful spymasters within the court of President Vladimir Putin.
The cumulative effect of all this new material simultaneously exposes both the astonishing intelligence-gathering abilities of the U.S. — as well as its chronic security flaws.
From a Russian vantage point, this allows Moscow's spies to demand ever more muscle to guard against the former, and new mandates to exploit the latter.
It's hard to overstate how bountiful these past three years have been for Russian intelligence.
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My Comment: The funny thing about Snowden being in Russia is that most Russians regard him as a hero for disclosing how government's gather intelligence on individuals .... something that most Russians are well aware that their own government is conducting on them all the time.
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