Ecuador officials disallow Snowden asylum document..Rut-Roh..
Ecuador's diplomatic mission in London issued a safe-conduct pass so National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden could travel to Ecuador to seek political asylum, but the action was unauthorized and the pass is invalid, government officials said Thursday.
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In contrast, Ecuadorean officials took a defiant tone as they scrambled to explain a single-page, unsigned letter dated June 22 that says Snowden has the right to travel to Ecuador for purposes of political asylum, and asks other countries to allow him safe passage. The letter was published by the Univision television network Wednesday night.
Ecuadorean officials have repeatedly expressed sympathy for Snowden for revealing secret global U.S. surveillance programs, but have insisted they have taken no decision on granting him asylum.
http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_23552846/ecuador-officials-disavow-snowden-asylum-document.Betty Tola told a news conference the safe-conduct pass "has no validity and is the exclusive responsibility of the person who issued it."
Another government official said that while the document is authentic, it was issued without approval from the Foreign Ministry or other officials in the capital and thus has no legal power. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter. Tola told reporters that Snowden's asylum application hadn't been processed because he was not in Ecuador as required by law. She also threatened legal action against whoever had leaked the document. She and other officials offered no further details about his case. The back-and-forth over the document is part of a series of varying messages from Ecuador's leftist government about whether to offer asylum to Snowden, who is believed to remain in limbo in the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport after flying in from Hong Kong. Officials have appeared to signal a preference for asylum, once describing it as a choice between the interests of global elites and ordinary people, but also have said such a decision could take days, weeks or months.
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Yet they managed to nitpick to death an extradition request for sufficient time so that Snowden could use a bogus document to make his escape to Moscow.
So....question time.
Was Hong Kong (or their puppetmasters in Beijing) screwing the USA by denying them their request....or screwing Russia, by dumping on them a hot potato with a bogus travel pass?
Or both?
Hilarity reigns in Beijing these days, no doubt...
I can hear it... yep.
.. and he iss all round nize guy rilly
