..is that Snowden gave everything he had to the Russians when he was sweating it out in that airport in Moscow for all of those weeks. I cannot imagine a scenario where Putin was willing to give him asylum for anything less than everything he knows, and his future security in Russia would most certainly be compromised if they ever found out he withheld information. Thus, the idea that Snowden might be welcomed back "if he stops leaking any further information" is not even possible. It is the Russians and Vladimir Putin who is slow-releasing this information at this point. HIS intelligence agencies are doing the same thing and they want to catch up to the Americans.