That's a fair point, but how can we verify that Snowden actually endorsed this statement or not? How does Wikileaks have access to him while no other media outlets do?
First of all, for an organization whose sole existence is to provide journalistic integrity, I would be very surprised if Wikileaks isn't being honest about this. Secondly, he was actually accompanied by Wikileaks associations on his flights to Moscow. So they're likely sitting right next to him, wherever he is.
They were pretty damn "honest" about getting him safely to Ecuador, weren't they? >_<
Lets be frank here, Snowden is in this situation because he's a dumbass, and he shouldn't have trusted his well being to Wikileaks either. Wikileaks couldn't have saved Bradley Manning, nor do they have the manpower to make Snowden safe.
Snowden leaked information without any plan B. He gave up all of his friends and family and decided to try and live in a strange (US-allied) country while he hid from the long arm of the law... while publicly thumbing his nose. Booz Allen didn't even know he was in Hong Kong when he revealed himself to the world as the NSA leaker. He was still on NSA (related) payroll and was fired after the fact.
Instead of taking advantage of that time to hide, he taunted an entire nation. And the dumbass newspaper reporters let him do it too, without any regard for his safety. Without trying to consult him, or without thinking of the consequences.
After all, coming out with the story was more important than this guy's safety.
This guy has no friends left, and has trapped himself in an even worse country where they openly persecute people like him. Lets see what happens now...
A friend of mine was stranded in the same part of the moscow airport, (en route from Armenia back to the US) but she did not see Snowden, so it may not be so easy to find him.
Perhaps more importantly, none of the many media there have been able to find him so exactly where he is is an open question. Not too many places to hide in an airport.
Presumably a security room operated by the Russian authorities. If something bad were to happen to Snowden it would be a major embarrassment for them, and there are many who might want to cause that.
