Denmark says US plane was ready to fly Snowden back

[TomVilmer]

Source: Associated Press

Denmark's justice minister says a U.S. government airplane parked at Copenhagen's airport in June 2013 was waiting to fly former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden to the United States. Soeren Pind said in a letter to Parliament Friday that the plane's presence "allegedly was to have been to be able to transport Edward Snowden to the United States in case he was extradited from Russia or another country."
Snowden, who was granted asylum in Russia, leaked millions of documents about U.S. government surveillance in 2013. In the letter Pind regretted being unclear about the plane's presence in close U.S. ally Denmark when quizzed by lawmakers on Wednesday.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/3f2b12f9b19845128f540439ee14d08a/denmark-says-us-plane-was-ready-fly-snowden-back

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I am sorry for my government's willingness to help!

[vlakitti]

1. This is just grotesque

and nobody in the world (except in the US) is taken in by it. It's piracy, at the very least.

[MADem]

2. Piracy?

[happyslug]

4. It was a waste of Taxpayer's money but not piracy.

What Snowden released has been mostly embarrassing to the US officials then anything else. Some of it made US actions look bad but he did not have access to anything really important that our enemies did not already know (The people overseas may NOT have known about those secrets but the people in charge of those countries did).

Furthermore, given the relations between the US and Russia at the time of Snowden move to Moscow it was highly unlikely he would have been extradited (and if he was expelled from Russia, it was hopeful thinking he would have been sent to Denmark, unless the US sent jets to other countries Russia MIGHT have sent Snowden, and if that is true a huge waste of Taxpayer's money).

Thus sending a jet to Denmark just in case Snowden left Moscow for Denmark was more hopeful thinking then smart planning. IT was a waste of taxpayer's money, nothing more. It was NOT illegal, Denmark could have left US Agents put Snowden on that jet and fly him to the US, unless the Danes actually objected to the US Agents taking Snowden, legal.

[fbc]

3. We are supposed to be a nation of laws.

Not a nation of thugs that kidnaps whistleblowers to be tortured at some secret police black site.

[ancianita]

6. Days of "supposed to be" ended a century ago. We've been roused from our history

books and anthems to learn that reality rarely matched our beliefs, that we have more than not slapped down 'messengers,' whether the story was about why and how our country was founded, why we fought a Civil War, or any war, or that we have undermined other countries' struggles for self-determination.

Some of us remember some equality under the law, but since the mass incarcerations during Bill Clinton's administration, and the gambling disaster of Wall St. during Bush's administration, we can tell that justice, like equality under the law, is hanging by a thread.

State sponsored (in)justice like ours has planetary reach.

[OnyxCollie]

5. "allegedly was to have been to be able to transport Edward Snowden to the United States..."

"Allegedly"

The plane was allegedly to transport Snowden to the US, but how do we know it wasn't going to take the scenic route through some CIA black sites?