Lindsay Mills: Edward Snowden Abandons Girlfriend in NSA Scandal Aftermath
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· By Kyle Zhu
· PolicyMic
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Lindsay Mills Edward Snowden Abandons Girlfriend in NSA Scandal Aftermath
Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who revealed the U.S. government's comprehensive phone and internet surveillance system called PRISM, has fled to Hong Kong for sanctuary.
Due to his actions, Snowden, at risk of serious federal charges that could land him in jail for decades, will most likely never be allowed to return back to the US and Snowden himself has told the Guardian "I do not expect to see home again." But what about the people Snowden left behind? In addition to being forced to leave his own country for leaking confidential information, Snowden also had to leave his loved ones. One of these people is Snowden's girlfriend, Lindsay Mills.
Lindsay Mills describes herself on her blog as a "world traveling, pole-dancing superhero".
As a 28-year-old dancer with an extensive online presence, Lindsay [sic] digital footprint has shown that she has not taken the sudden separation well. In her last blog post on June 10, Mills wrote that she was "lost and adrift" and "at the moment, all I feel is alone… sometimes life doesn't afford proper goodbyes."
Before leaving the country and leaking confidential information, Snowden told Mills that he would be going away for a free week and gave a vague reason why.
[Without taking her, and without telling her where? Yeah, they must have been really close, like married.
N.S.: Babe, I'm going away for a week.
The Boss: Where you goin'?
N.S.: Oh, just away.
T.B.: Well, I changin' da locks while ya gone, and goin' to da divorce lawyer. Ya got any udda news for me?]
Now he is an international fugitive of the U.S. government who is trying to get Hong Kong to extradite him. Talk about a sudden change in the terms of a relationship. What makes their relationship even more intriguing is that Mills has not publicly acknowledged dating Snowden, only describing her boyfriend as "E" or "mystery man" and never directly featuring his face in any photos.
Mills had already had a rocky relationship with Snowden, as she relates in her June 2012 blog post that "it has been quite an emotional up-and-down roller coaster since the moment I stepped off the plane" when she moved to Hawaii to be with Snowden. One can only imagine the tension and pain she must feel for suddenly being unable to see her boyfriend and also being under scrutiny by the US government, having the home Snowden and Mills only shared twice ["only shared," "only shared twice," or "twice be visited"? Any way you parse it, this makes no sense.] be visited by NSA police and other law-enforcement officials.
Mill's blog has now been taken down and she tweeted on June 11 "To delete or not to delete. That is the question." Her Twitter account is still active. Mill's roller coaster relationship with Snowden is now on an indefinite standstill and its future has lots of twists and turns ahead of it.
[Actually, it has no "twists and turns ahead of it." It's over.
Where's the beef? Where's the reporting? This is nothing. This is a very weak blog post, based on other, superficial blog posts by a non-player tangentially related to a story of domestic and international intrigue, dressed up with a couple of nice, big pictures, to look like journalism. Moron fodder.]
Picture Credit: The Daily Beast
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