When Snowden left Hong Kong and landed in Moscow to transit to Latin America, Obama officials like Ben Rhodes did everything possible to prevent him from leaving, to trap him in Russia.

Rhodes boasted of it in his book.

Ever since, they've use this to imply he's a Russian agent.

You can read Ben Rhodes in his own words, bragging in his book about he forced the Cubans to withdraw the guarantee of safe passage they had given Snowden to allow him to leave Russia, as he was desperately trying to do.

greenwald.substack.com/p/ben-rhodes-b…

Think about it: if Obama officials believed Snowden had possession of an extremely sensitive archive of top secret documents - as they insist but Snowden denies - why would they *want to trap him in Russia*?

Because they knew it'd be easy to convince idiots he was a Kremlin spy.

And let's not lose sight of the key point:

The only reason Snowden -- who revealed illegal domestic spying -- can't come home is because the Obama Admin abused the Espionage Act to prosecute more whistleblowers than all previous presidents combined.👇

politifact.com/factchecks/201…