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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Wed Jun 26, 2013, 07:20 PM Jun 2013

OOPS The US got Edward Snowden’s middle name wrong on extradition documents

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014519722

Source: Quartz News

Edward Snowden, NSA-leaker extraordinaire, is such a familiar face in world news that he’s almost a household name. But for all the extensive NSA spying capabilities he revealed, US authorities were still not able to get his name right on extradition documents issued to Hong Kong, according to Rimsky Yuen, the city’s justice secretary.

Seeking a provisional arrest warrant for Snowden, the US government submitted documents referring to Edward James Snowden, the Wall Street Journal reported. In another document it just used his middle initial. According to his passport, however, Snowden’s middle name is actually Joseph.

Read more: http://qz.com/97998/the-us-got-edward-snowdens-middle-name-wrong-on-extradition-documents/


You can see more at GovExec.com ( here ) and Wall Street Journal China/Denmark divisions ( here )

Here's an excerpt from WSJ China Real Time News

Hong Kong’s justice secretary, Rimsky Yuen, says that according to Hong Kong immigration records, Joseph is the middle name in Mr. Snowden’s passport. Yet when the U.S. government submitted documents as part of a request to their Hong Kong counterparts to issue a provisional arrest warrant for the former security contractor, they specified one Edward James Snowden. In another, they simply referred to him as Edward J. Snowden, according to Mr. Yuen.

That, among other factors, helped contribute to the processing of the U.S.’s request. What’s more, Mr. Yuen added, attempts to process the U.S. request were further complicated by the fact that the U.S. didn’t specify any passport number for Mr. Snowden in its documents.

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“Until the minute of Snowden’s departure, the U.S. government hadn’t yet replied to our requests for clarification,” he said. “Hong Kong’s government had no legal basis to block his departure,” Mr. Yuen said. “Any suggestion that we have been deliberately letting Mr. Snowden go away or to do any other things to obstruct the normal operation is totally untrue.”


Rimsky Yuen?

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OOPS The US got Edward Snowden’s middle name wrong on extradition documents (Original Post) KamaAina Jun 2013 OP
And yet they want us to trust them when it comes to spying on us and storing our private info quinnox Jun 2013 #1
Sure it wasn't outsourced? aquart Jun 2013 #3
lol stupid government LittleBlue Jun 2013 #2
That's assuming it was a mistake KamaAina Jun 2013 #4
How come I believe that this kind of errors can happen, without any independent verification? JackN415 Jun 2013 #5
Thanks for re-post KamaAina laserhaas Jun 2013 #6
But they'd also revoked his passport, which should have kept him in H.K. n/t pnwmom Jun 2013 #7
 

quinnox

(20,600 posts)
1. And yet they want us to trust them when it comes to spying on us and storing our private info
Wed Jun 26, 2013, 07:22 PM
Jun 2013

This story is a good example of why that is not a good idea. Incompetence is not exactly a rarity when it comes to government bureaucracy.

 

LittleBlue

(10,362 posts)
2. lol stupid government
Wed Jun 26, 2013, 07:22 PM
Jun 2013

How much do we spend on these clowns and they can't even get the name right. IN A LEGAL DOCUMENT!

 

JackN415

(924 posts)
5. How come I believe that this kind of errors can happen, without any independent verification?
Wed Jun 26, 2013, 07:56 PM
Jun 2013

Oh yeah, right, the State Department made plenty of errors on my and my family's passports!

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