<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drawkbox</author><text>Playing devil&amp;#x27;s advocate here, and watched a bunch of spy movies...&lt;p&gt;What if Snowden is still a CIA agent (he was a CIA agent for years before NSA) and this is actually a snowjob&amp;#x2F;whitewash by the government to deflect attention or essentially control the message about news they knew would be released (diffusing that&amp;#x2F;controlling that message) and black-ops about China, Russia, Cuba + Venezuela how they treat&amp;#x2F;process possible &amp;#x27;traitors&amp;#x27; or spies?&lt;p&gt;I hope that is not the case and he is sincere, it would be great if the US could just pardon him and address our Constitutional issues. But if they pardon him doesn&amp;#x27;t the above seem like an outside possibility?&lt;p&gt;Or am I reading too much Tom Clancy and watching too many spy movies?&lt;p&gt;It does seem most whistleblowers are swept under the rug but here you have one that is garnering lots of news and attracting lots of attention across multiple weeks&amp;#x2F;weekends to things that were previously labeled &amp;#x27;conspiracy&amp;#x27; or only seen in movies (yet have been in the news quietly before, since 9&amp;#x2F;11). Now it is international news everywhere. He is almost the perfect leaker, making more waves than all combined.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Official statement from WikiLeaks regarding Edward Snowden&apos;s exit from Hong Kong</title><url>http://wikileaks.org/WikiLeaks-Statement-On-Edward.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>synctext</author><text>Why is this trip of Snowden made into a media event?&lt;p&gt;The Aeroflot flight number was public!
Is this to counter a secret rendition attempt? Did we wake-up in a world with 007 stuff happening to real computer nerds, not just high-paid actors?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Official statement from WikiLeaks regarding Edward Snowden&apos;s exit from Hong Kong</title><url>http://wikileaks.org/WikiLeaks-Statement-On-Edward.html</url></story>