because might defect to China which is complete speculative BS
It's no BS, but it's our (USA's) fault if he does. Faced with no better choice he may decide that doing what pleases China beats a lifetime of Bradley Manning prison treatment.
USA should've bit the bullet and offered him immunity if he stopped leaking and surrendered himself at a US Embassy. That might have been the best of both choices, despite setting a bad precedent. The interesting part is that China gets all his info if they arrest him (or sneak in his room.) I hope he encrypted it and that China cannot decrypt it. I suspect that hundreds of agents from all major secret services are following every step of his. I'd bet every penny I have that every secret service worth their salt knew where he was since day one.
It's no BS, but it's our (USA's) fault if he does. Faced with no better choice he may decide that doing what pleases China beats a lifetime of Bradley Manning prison treatment.
USA should've bit the bullet and offered him immunity if he stopped leaking and surrendered himself at a US Embassy. That might have been the best of both choices, despite setting a bad precedent. The interesting part is that China gets all his info if they arrest him (or sneak in his room.) I hope he encrypted it and that China cannot decrypt it. I suspect that hundreds of agents from all major secret services are following every step of his. I'd bet every penny I have that every secret service worth their salt knew where he was since day one.