Snowden: Comey Tried to Jail Me, But Firing Him Is Wrong

Edward Snowden, the NSA leaker who is currently living in exile in Russia, has reason to gloat over James Comey firing as FBI director, but took to Twitter to defend him instead.

This FBI Director has sought for years to jail me on account of my political activities. If I can oppose his firing, so can you. https://t.co/zUp5kquy8q

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) May 9, 2017

Snowden did not elaborate, but he did retweet others who compared President Donald Trump's action to Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal and questioned the timing, since Comey's office was investigating Trump's election team's possible connections to Russia.

This smells more and more like Watergate revisited

— alan rusbridger (@arusbridger) May 9, 2017

Any way you slice it, POTUS/AG just fired FBI director for investigating them. I'm no Comey fan, but this bodes very ill for rule of law.

— Elizabeth Goitein (@LizaGoitein) May 9, 2017

If Comey was in fact fired for his July statements about the HRC investigation, why is the firing happening now, not months ago? pic.twitter.com/wUBPTtIJn6

— Ben White (@morningmoneyben) May 9, 2017

Snowden has been living in Russia since 2013 after he exposed thousands of secret documents related to government surveillance he obtained while working for a contractor to the National Security Agency. He faces prosecution for espionage if he returns to the United States.

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