Ecuador president: Snowden can't leave Moscow

[Scurrilous]

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"National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden is "under the care of the Russian authorities" and can't leave Moscow's international airport without his U.S. passport, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa told The Associated Press Sunday.

Correa said he had no idea Snowden's intended destination was Ecuador when he fled Hong Kong for Russia last week. He said the Ecuadorean consul in London committed "a serious error" without consulting any officials in Ecuador's capital when the consul issued a letter of safe passage for Snowden. He said the consul would be punished, although he didn't specify how.

Correa said "the case is not in Ecuador's hands" and said Snowden must assume responsibility if he broke U.S. laws. Correa said the broader legitimacy of Snowden's action must be taken into consideration and Ecuador would still consider an asylum request but only if Snowden is able to make it to Ecuador or an Ecuadorean Embassy to apply.

"This is the decision of Russian authorities. He doesn't have a passport. I don't know the Russian laws, I don't know if he can leave the airport, but I understand that he can't," Correa said. "At this moment he's under the care of the Russian authorities. If he arrives at an Ecuadorean Embassy we'll analyze his request for asylum."

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/30/3478238/ecuador-president-snowden-cant.html#storylink=cpy

[flamingdem]

1. This is such a tease!

I guess Correa is either moonwalking away from earlier offers and deflecting blame by making it Putin's fault or he's telling Putin to let him get to the Ecuadoran Embassy.

It must be the former because Correa has heard things from Biden, maybe some nice things, things like trade agreements and other flowers have been offered.

[dkf]

2. And the US forces Snowden to cooperate with the Russians. Brilliant.

That's a great way to secure all his info... NOT.

[KittyWampus]

3. LOL! Apparently you aren't paying attention. No one is forcing Snowden to

"cooperate" with China & Russia. That was his INTENT.

His self appointed mission is to release sensitive, classified info he stole from the NSA to: China, Russia and other countries.

[dkf]

4. Leave him stranded without a passport.

He can't even legally get back to the US.

[SidDithers]

5. Sure he could. In handcuffs...nt

Sid

[FSogol]

7. You know, those great lovers of personal freedom/liberty, China and Russia

[Comrade Grumpy]

8. I'm aware of his releasing information to the Guardian and other media sources.

Did I miss something? Can you point me to something where he says it is his "self-appointed mission" to give information to the Russians or Chinese? Or any indication that he has?

[randome]

10. The Hong Kong papers said they saw his evidence.

But maybe it's best not to believe everything we read.

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[morningfog]

11. Link?

[randome]

15. He 'divulged information'.

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1268209/snowden-sought-booz-allen-job-gather-evidence-nsa-surveillance

He showed them documents. You can make of that what you want.

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[morningfog]

16. It doesn't say documents.

"In his interview with the Post, Snowden divulged information that he claimed showed hacking by the NSA into computers in Hong Kong and the mainland."

He told them that he had information, but it doesn't say he showed them anything. Is there any other evidence that he showed documents to the Chinese government or Chinese press?

[Thinkingabout]

18. Do you have any evidence he has not shown the information? I am beginning to think the

Information may be of no value to China or Russia and probably both countries may be participating in the same information. It may be just as well to leave him where ever he can land, no cost to the US to transport him back to the US, no costly trial and a self imposed sentence by himself to never grace the shores of our great nation, good riddance to a criminal.

[morningfog]

19. I can't prove a negative.

I don't know what he has or who he has showed it to.

[Thinkingabout]

20. The US does not seem very interested in him except for the charges of espionage and did start the

Extradition process so it may be all they do unless he returns to the US on his own. Though he was not supposed to reveal information he gathered while at the NSA I don't think the whole information for s going to be valuable to other nations.

[pnwmom]

14. It's silly to think China and Russia don't already have what they need.

As if Snowden has been lugging his 4 computers around for days without interference.

[SidDithers]

6. DU rec...

Thanks for posting.

Sid

[Zorra]

9. The 1% fascists are in control. Whistleblowers no longer have possibility of escape

if they expose the corrupt, democracy crushing factors of control and corruption employed by the 1% fascists.

Their global control of resources, labor, and the factors and means of production is an ever tightening noose around the neck of democracy.

Any leader, any nation, who resists global fascism them can and will be punished.

The global power of the financial centers is so great, that they can afford not to worry about the political tendency of those who hold power in a nation, if the economic program (in other words, the role that nation has in the global economic megaprogram) remains unaltered. The financial disciplines impose themselves upon the different colors of the world political spectrum in regards to the government of any nation. he great world power can tolerate a leftist government in any part of the world, as long as the government does not take measures that go against the needs of the world financial centers. But in no way will it tolerate that an alternative economic, political and social organization consolidate. For the megapolitics, the national politics are dwarfed and submit to the dict ates of the financial centers. It will be this way until the dwarfs rebel . .

http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/mexico/ezln/1997/jigsaw.html

[Thinkingabout]

21. Snowden may already be serving his time, he cant return to the USA without being arrested and i am

Not sure he hasn't placed himself in "custody" in Russia.

[randome]

12. The consul will be punished by being forced to room with Assange for a year!

NOT a Harold and Kumar situation, I'd bet!

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[Brother Buzz]

13. What a revolting development this is!

[dipsydoodle]

17. Kicked for not spinning the AP headline.

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