{"id":1128,"date":"2013-06-24T09:20:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T16:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2013-06-24T09:27:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T16:27:45","slug":"a-deliberate-ruse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1128","title":{"rendered":"A Deliberate Ruse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1130\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1130\" style=\"width: 344px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/snowden_empty_seat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1130 \" title=\"Snowden's Empty Seat on Aeroflot Flight 150\" alt=\"Snowden's Empty Seat on Aeroflot Flight 150\" src=\"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/snowden_empty_seat.jpg\" width=\"344\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/snowden_empty_seat.jpg 573w, https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/snowden_empty_seat-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snowden&#8217;s Empty Seat on Aeroflot Flight 150<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Could this have been deliberate? Per <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/jun\/24\/edward-snowden-booked-on-plane-from-moscow-to-havana-live-coverage#block-51c81cdfe4b07492ab1ea75d\">The Guardian<\/a>, the plane is &#8220;\u2026full of journalists \u2013 and presumably representatives of various governments\u2026&#8221; The latter in particular makes it precisely the sort of place that one might expect Snowden to want to avoid being cooped up in for over 7 hours.<\/p>\n<p>What better way to avoid that fate than to mislead all that unwanted company into cooping themselves up with each other for 7+ hours while you slip onto another plane unnoticed? It wouldn&#8217;t surprise me in the least to learn that he got onto another plane, possibly when the news hits as he&#8217;s getting <em>off<\/em> that other plane someplace (or, who knows, maybe not even until arriving at his final destination).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could this have been deliberate? Per The Guardian, the plane is &#8220;\u2026full of journalists \u2013 and presumably representatives of various governments\u2026&#8221; The latter in particular makes it precisely the sort of place that one might expect Snowden to want to avoid being cooped up in for over 7 hours. What better way to avoid that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}