Gosh, I can sure feel President Barak Obama's pain. Here he is, the Prince
of Peace, the most powerful leader of all time, and he's the laughing stock
of the entire planet Earth.
Macho Guys, especially the Numero Uno Macho Guy, do not like to be laughed
at. It messes with their testosterone. And of course this goes for the
entire Industrial/Military Corporate Empire.
Talk about puffed up power brokers with a major hard on for Edward Snowden!
They don't really believe that he has damaged our security, they are just
plain pissed off that some little punk has dared to rise up out of the herd
and embarrass them.
And that's all it's about.
Carl Jarvis
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Russia rejects US demand for Snowden's extradition By Vladimir Isachenkov By
Vladimir Isachenkov MOSCOW - Russia's foreign minister bluntly rejected U.S.
demands to extradite National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, saying
Tuesday that Snowden hasn't crossed the Russian border. Sergey Lavrov
insisted
that Russia has nothing to do with Snowden or his travel plans. Lavrov
wouldn't say where Snowden is, but he lashed out angrily at Washington for
demanding
his extradition and warning of negative consequences if Moscow fails to
comply. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday urged Moscow to "do the
right
thing" and turn over Snowden. We consider the attempts to accuse Russia of
violation of U.S. laws and even some sort of conspiracy, which on top of all
that are accompanied by threats, as absolutely ungrounded and unacceptable,"
Lavrov said. There are no legal grounds for such conduct of U.S. officials.
The defiant tone underlined the Kremlin's readiness to challenge Washington
at a time when U.S. -Russian relations are strained over Syria and a Russian
ban on adoptions by Americans. U.S. and Ecuadorean officials said they
believed Snowden was still in Russia. He fled there Sunday from Hong Kong,
where
he had been hiding out since his disclosure of the broad scope of two highly
classified U.S. counterterror surveillance programs. The programs collect
vast amounts of Americans' phone records and worldwide online data in the
name of national security. Lavrov claimed that the Russian government found
out
about Snowden's flight from Hong Kong only from news reports. We have no
relation to Mr. Snowden, his relations with American justice or his travels
around
the world," Lavrov said. He chooses his route himself, and we have learned
about it from the media. Snowden booked a seat on a Havana-bound flight from
Moscow on Monday en route to Venezuela and then possible asylum in Ecuador,
but he didn't board the plane. Russian news media have reported that he has
remained in a transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, but journalists
there haven't seen him. A representative of WikiLeaks has been traveling
with
Snowden, and the organization is believed to be assisting him in arranging
asylum. The organization's founder, Julian Assange, said Monday that Snowden
was only passing through Russia and had applied for asylum in Ecuador,
Iceland and possibly other countries. A high-ranking Ecuadorean official
told The
Associated Press that Russia and Ecuador were discussing where Snowden could
go, saying the process could take days. He also said Ecuador's ambassador
to Moscow had not seen or spoken to Snowden. The official spoke on condition
of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case publicly.
Ecuador's
foreign minister, Ricardo Patino, hailed Snowden on Monday as "a man
attempting to bring light and transparency to facts that affect everyone's
fundamental
liberties. He described the decision on whether to grant Snowden asylum as a
choice between "betraying the citizens of the world or betraying certain
powerful
elites in a specific country. State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell
said the U.S. had made demands to "a series of governments," including
Ecuador,
that Snowden be barred from any international travel other than to be
returned to the U.S. The U.S. has revoked Snowden's passport. We're
following all
the appropriate legal channels and working with various other countries to
make sure that the rule of law is observed," President Barack Obama told
reporters.
Some experts said it was likely that Russian spy agencies were questioning
Snowden on what he knows about U.S. electronic espionage against Moscow. If
Russian special services hadn't shown interest in Snowden, they would have
been utterly unprofessional," Igor Korotchenko, a former colonel in Russia's
top military command turned security analyst, said on state Rossiya 24
television. The Kremlin has previously said Russia would be ready to
consider Snowden's
request for asylum. Snowden is a former CIA employee who later was hired as
a contractor for the NSA. In that job, he gained access to documents that he
gave to newspapers The Guardian and The Washington Post to expose what he
contends are privacy violations by an authoritarian government. Snowden also
told the South China Morning Post newspaper in Hong Kong that "the NSA does
all kinds of things like hack Chinese cellphone companies to steal all of
your
SMS data. He is believed to have more than 200 additional sensitive
documents in laptops he is carrying. Some observers said in addition to the
sensitive
data, Snowden's revelations have provided the Kremlin with propaganda
arguments to counter the U.S. criticism of Russia's crackdown on opposition
and civil
activists under President Vladimir Putin. They would use Snowden to
demonstrate that the U.S. government doesn't sympathize with the ideals of
freedom
of information, conceals key information from the public and stands ready to
open criminal proceedings against those who oppose it," Konstantin
Remchukov,
the editor of independent daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta, said on Ekho Moskvy
radio. Putin has accused the U.S. State Department of instigating protests
in
Moscow against his re-election for a third term and has taken an
anti-American posture that plays well with his core support base of
industrial workers
and state employees.
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