snowden would never go to russia, that isn't where his allegiances lie. there's strong evidence in snowdens past that he is a double agent for the chinese government, and that the information he stole and took with him, wasn't even information he should have had access to.    now I'm not saying prism wasn't wrong, but the timing of the incident coinciding with recent cyber space events, chinese/us relations, along with snowdens past, shows that he made a deal with the chinese long before he stole the documents or even knew prism existed. they probably promised him asylum and lots of money and a traditional chinese wife (who would secretly work for the chinese gov monitoring him and then eventually will divorce him once her assignment was over).    all I see is a loser who couldn't get women, who always had issues with women, so he was lonely and living a boring life. the chinese came to him, paid him off to be a double agent, which was exciting to him, then promised him asylum in china if he got access to important enough information. this is all made very clear when you realize he got himself transferred to the hawaii branch, which deals specifically with china. he stole a lot more than just information on prism, he stole a large portion of all the tactical information the US has on china.     snowden is not a whistleblower. he's a double agent bought out by the chinese, with the cover of whistle blower. the tactic itself is very chinese in nature.    I guarantee you, if the US has something the chinese gov doesn't want to get out, that's more serious than prism, they will drop him in a heart beat and he'll be completely alone. I mean it's not like the chinese don't openly have their own version of prism, so china itself has no room to talk.     these are dangerous times we live in. nothing is as it seems. snowden is a wolf in sheeps clothing.    snowden has been leaking information to china for years. he only now went public, because the NSA was investigating him for it. He figured going public would make it so that he couldn't be killed, then he used the prism scandal as a cover when in fact his real purpose was to leak information to china.