Has Ed Swowden become a Pawn on Julian Assange's Chessboard?

Italy and France joined a growing list of countries that won't grant asylum to Edward Snowden, as the former National Security Agency contractor searches for a new home after leaking classified U.S. intelligence. 

The two European countries formally rejected Mr. Snowden's request for asylum on Thursday, further complicating the 30-year-old's status. Russian officials have said he is in the international transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport. 

A representative of Mr. Snowden's father expressed concerns that the leaker's crusade to expose American spying has been commandeered by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has taken an increasingly prominent role in managing Mr. Snowden's public statements. 

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Mr. Assange's role in the controversy has generated increasing friction and resentment. Ecuadorian officials chafed at his attempts to capitalize on Mr. Snowden's fate. Earlier this week, Mr. Assange wrote an opinion piece urging European nations to welcome Mr. Snowden and said the countries were indebted to the American for revealing U.S. spying programs around the world. 

"It's surely, I think, undeniable that the WikiLeaks approach to this problem has substantially defeated what Edward Snowden stated his motive was, which was mainly to put the issue of the surveillance state, secret law and the Fourth Amendment on the American agenda," said Bruce Fein, an attorney working with Mr. Snowden's father, Lonnie Snowden...(emphasis mine)

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Although Assange surely is capitalizing on Snowden's predicament. Snowden was the one who went to Hong Kong and changed this from a 4th Amendment story about the American Government spying on it's citizens to one about the U.s. international spying.....A GAME CHANGER for sure.

If he's being taken advantage of now, I'm reminded of an old saying, "As you make your bed, so you must lie on it"

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