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I'm sure that they will also be digging around in his records for anything sexual.

They'll probably also claim that he was "a loner" who spent a lot of time browsing Wikileaks, or "conspiracy theory" sites.

The emphasis on the salary discrepancy will also be played up as far as possible, to suggest that other aspects of the story might be exaggerated or false.

It also might not be too hard to plant something incriminating in his hotel room after he leaves, or to merely claim that something incriminating was found.



Leslie Marshall has accussed Snowden's girlfriend of being a stripper in US News and him lying about it:

He lied about his girlfriend. He said she was a ballerina, but she was a stripper who pole danced. (And as someone who took ballet as a young girl, I can assure you that there was no pole and we kept our clothes on.)

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/leslie-marshall/2013/06/...


Don't assume that opinion blogs on a website mean that US News reported that his girlfriend was a stripper. It's an opinion piece. People are allowed to be stupid and wrong. So, in the grand scheme of things this fall under - [citation required].




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