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Snowden Wants To Stay In Russia After All
Looks like the Russian guy who deleted his tweet earlier this week can undelete it:
- SNOWDEN ASKS RUSSIA FOR POLITICAL ASYLUM: RIA
- SNOWDEN SAYS HE WANTS TO STAY IN RUSSIA, INTERFAX SAYS
- PUTIN'S SPOKESMAN SAYS RUSSIAN POSITION ON SNOWDEN ASYLUM SAME
- SNOWDEN MEETING TO EXCLUDE VIDEO, PHOTO RECORDING DEVICES: RIA
- SNOWDEN TO COMPLY WITH PUTIN'S DEMAND NOT TO HARM U.S.: RIA
That terminal food sure must be something. Either that, or he is seriously entertaining Anna Chapman's marriage offer.
It appears the reason for the asylum request is because he could not fly to Latin America.
BREAKING: #Snowden asks for political asylum in Russia, saying he could not fly to Latin America - Human Rights Watch http://t.co/biR1qADKND
— RT America (@RT_America) July 12, 2013
More from ABC:
American spy fugitive Edward Snowden emerged from his hideout in the Moscow airport today to speak with international human rights groups about his future plans, almost three weeks after he first disappeared inside the vast Russian facility.
Citing a Human Rights Watch official apparently in the meeting, The New York Times reported Snowden plans to seek temporary asylum in Russia, which has offered it. Russia's President Putin previously said Snowden was welcome to stay in his country, but only as long as he stops publishing information that hurts America.
Snowden also reportedly said he had received asylum offers from several South American nations, including Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Ecuador. Snowden said he accepts all offers and plans to eventually go to South America.
The meeting comes a day after The Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald, who has worked with Snowden to report on the NSA's secret vast domestic and international surveillance programs, told ABC News that their work is not even half done.
"The majority of it remains to be done, and that includes stories that are at least as significant, if not more significant than the ones we've already done," Greenwald said.
Greenwald said that for the past six weeks he has carried around "for every second of everyday" a highly encrypted electronic copy of the secret documents leaked to him by Snowden – some 10,000 documents from the NSA. Greenwald said that he has other copies should anything happen to the one he carries around, and Snowden has previously said that other encrypted copies of the documents have been given to other journalists for safe keeping.
As for the concerns over whether Russian authorities could copy the documents Snowden is reportedly carrying with him – or if Chinese intelligence agents had done so already when he was in Hong Kong – Greenwald said such concerns underestimate Snowden's experience in the world of high-tech spycraft.
"This is a very sophisticated cyber operative," Greenwald said before referencing a report from The New York Times which said Snowden had been especially trained by the NSA to be an offensive cyber attacker. "This is somebody who completely knows what he's doing in terms of how to store material securely and what techniques are used by governments around the world, like the NSA, in order to gain access to places they don't have authority to access."
In the invitation to today's meeting, Snowden said the U.S. government had embarked on a "dangerous escalation" in his case.
"I have been extremely fortunate to enjoy and accept many offers of support and asylum from brave countries around the world," the email said. "These nations have my gratitude, and I hope to travel to each of them to extend my personal thanks to their people and leaders. By refusing to compromise their principles in the face of intimidation, they have earned the respect of the world.
"Unfortunately, in recent weeks we have witnessed an unlawful campaign by officials in the U.S. Government to deny my right to seek and enjoy this asylum under Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The scale of threatening behavior is without precedent: never before in history have states conspired to force to the ground a sovereign President's plane to effect a search for a political refugee.
"This dangerous escalation represents a threat not just to the dignity of Latin America or my own personal security, but to the basic right shared by every living person to live free from persecution," it concluded.
It is signed "Edward Joseph Snowden."
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Won't believe until you put your little dick pickers in his bullet hole? Felt the slit in his throat?
Snowden still will have problems - thankfully - for travelling anywhere.
He's open season for any US interest, never mind any private person wishing to do the US and its citizens a service by taking him out or rendering him to US custody.
Trusting the RT stills when they disallowed any other recording is questionable at best.
Snowjob .... ask for assylum in Detroit ?
lol, putin must consider that attention whoring geek like a little bitch.
Lol at snowjob giving a big fuck you to third world low life losers of shitty south america; sorry but your countries are too crapy for me to want to live there, even russia is more civilized; considering i have the choice..well. Thanks for the support tho. Looks like snowwhite isnt that much of an adventurous, rebelous hero after all. The south american leaders must be pretty pissed by his refusal.
What is interesting to me is the disconnect between opinion polls which report that a majority of Americans consider Snowden a whistleblower as opposed to a seeming majority of political elite that consider him a traitor. The political class is now willing to OPENLY expose themselves as servants of those that fund their campaigns and line up golden parachute jobs for them when they leave government employment. The question I have is, will a large enough segment of the population understand this to effect a real change (revolution ?)
The ones reporting him as a "hero" are faulty in their construction - since they don't leave room for a non-hero conclusion.
The ones reporting him as a "traitor" are faulty in their construction - since they don't leave room for a non-traitor conclusion.
Your blunt sword cuts both ways.
Dialectics - isn't it grand?
Then, there are those who just plain gave up some time ago, and is all just meh.
No, they only leave the choice between hero and traitor - with no room for "Snowden's done enough wrong to not be a hero or for any good, but not as a traitor ".
The only heroes will be the people that capture him and bring him to the US.
- The political class is now willing to OPENLY expose themselves as servants... Get that Janet Napolitano dick out ou your mouth and you might see better.
Our leaders are just plain stupid. That is why they cannot be trusted. For example, they have chased Snowden right into the backseat of Putin's waiting limo, while managing to piss off all of South America in the process. Good one guys!
they re not stupid, or they wouldnt be our leaders... The people they re leading, are stupid, tho. They cannot be trusted because their job is to fuck us in the ass; they use their strenghts to dominate instead of being dominated.
If you're looking for traitors, I know where there are 535 of them...
When did Snowden clone himself, much less become a Congressman?
Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out
They leave the West behind
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout
That Georgia's always on my my my my my my my my my mind
I'm back in the USSR
You don't know how lucky you are, boys
Back in the USSR
Oh, show me round your snow peaked mountains way down south
Take me to your daddy's farm
Let me hear your balalaika's ringing out
Come and keep your comrade warm
I'm back in the USSR
Hey, you don't know how lucky you are, boy
Back in the USSR
Come for business, stay for the womenz
Publish all the records and shift the heat to where it belongs
Good for you Edward. The United States is presently the greater evil empire in my book.
The moment the US strayed from strict adherence to the constitution was indeed the beginning-of-the-end.
Particularly abandoning that which was the only item in the constitution specified as NECESSARY to the security of a free state.
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It has to be a secret organization. Fight fire with fire.
Anyone remember how we screwed the Russian Oligarchs in Cyprus when we confiscated their deposits? Yeah, revenge is a dish best served cold.
It would only be ironic if he were to criticize Russia's spying on its own citizens, which he of course never will.
Kind of like how Williambanzai lives in HK and never ever makes find of Chinese rulers.
Hmmm
I hereby present EXHIBIT A to show Snowden is no more than a controlled opposition disinfo douche. None of his assertions in the following are true.
http://nblo.gs/N4RbT