What does Snowden call for in his mysterious tweet?

The name of Edward Snowden, a scandalous denouncer of US intelligence agencies, still does not leave the first lines of news sites. Such is the fate of this person-or, perhaps, his choice-that each of his replicas implies a hidden meaning and entails certain consequences that not only other characters suffer, but he himself.

He said "it's time"

In his "Twitter" Edward Snowden posted a very original post, which many called significant and even cryptic. Tweet is a kind of encrypted message to its former colleagues, and its meaning boils down to the fact that "the time has come." The message also contains a hint that it is time to contact him. And more than 2 million of its subscribers responded to the call of the likes. What does it mean?

Time for what?

Perhaps, thus, the disgraced ex-special services officer warns like-minded people about an imminent meeting. In recent days, there have been reports in the press that Snowden does not live so sweetly in Russia, which, in principle, can be understood. It is difficult to judge a person who is deprived of the opportunity to live in his usual environment and to do his own thing.

Although he is engaged in business. All his work takes place online, and so he prefers to live and work on American time. He even boasted that over the past year, living in Russia, earned $ 200,000 in America. With Russian, he does not have everything so smoothly, he communicates with everyone in English, however, as Edward Snowden joked, he is quite capable of ordering his food in a restaurant in Russian.

Time to tell the truth

Both Snowden himself and his followers are unanimous in one thing: one must live the truth at all times. And its unexpected appearance in 2014 - true, in the video communication mode - at the conference in Vancouver (Canada) was yet another declaration of this principle. Then Snowden announced that he has many more secret materials that need to be made public.

Recently, reports have been made that the most wanted spy intends to return to America and ask forgiveness from Barack Obama while he is still in power. But on one condition: that he will be given a fair trial and an opportunity to argue his position before the jury in respect of those charges for which he faces a large prison term (espionage and kidnapping of state property).

Why did this tweet come around?

A mysterious message in "Twitter" appeared a week after Snowden exchanged here, in social networks, with bites with WikiLeaks. Perhaps it was Snowden's reaction to accusations that he was supporting Hillary Clinton's election program so that she could help him return to his homeland and be justified before his fellow citizens, while ensuring the secrecy of his whereabouts and personal security.

Snowden as the hero of the novel

At present, the journalist and writer Barton Gellman is working on the book about Snowden. He sets a task to show his hero from all sides, including the Snowden, who successfully worked in the intelligence community and himself provided supervision of citizens and politicians, while knowing that he would once tell the whole truth. The author posted an appeal to everyone in the networks who knew Snowden and worked with him, asking him to provide information on any plan: what he was doing while working in the CIA, or at the NSA, or while serving in the army, studying computer courses - any information About the hero will be valuable. The main thing is that it should be true first-hand information, Gellman writes.

Interesting to be and the biopic of Hollywood director Oliver Stone about the history of the famous unmasker. The film was promised to be released later this year.

In 2013, Snowden, then an officer of the CIA and the National Security Agency (NSA), published data on the surveillance of US intelligence services for his citizens, as well as about listening to telephone conversations of leaders of other powers, and has since become an outcast. He hid himself first in Hong Kong, in 2014 he moved to Russia and received a residence permit for a period of three years. The term of residence permit has almost expired. And soon the whole world can learn what the mysterious tweet of Snowden meant that the time has come.