<![CDATA[Michael Ellis & Scott Glabe - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/rss/archive/27679.xmlAuthor <![CDATA[Julian and Ed's Not-So-Excellent Adventure]]> Wed, 14 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500 When Edward Snowden fled the U.S. in late May, the fugitive leaker imagined he would by now be comfortably ensconced in Iceland, bastion of Internet freedom. Instead, the former National Security Agency contractor spent more than a month in international no-man’s land—the “transit zone” of the Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport—before receiving temporary asylum in Russia. Snowden, who dreamed of a world without secrets or borders, now finds himself at the mercy of a traditional superpower whose leader has insisted that the leaks must stop.

Snowden’s transition from Internet freedom fighter to ward of the Kremlin illustrates the surprising...]]>