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Eugene

(61,593 posts)
Mon Jun 24, 2013, 09:12 AM Jun 2013

Russia says it has no authority to expel Snowden; Kerry: ‘Deeply troubling’

Source: Washington Post

Russia says it has no authority to expel Snowden; Kerry: 'Deeply troubling'

By Kathy Lally, Anthony Faiola and Karen DeYoung, Updated: Monday, June 24, 8:45 AM

MOSCOW — Despite a direct request from the United States to return Edward Snowden to U.S. soil to face charges of leaking government secrets, Russian officials said Monday that they had no legal authority to detain the fugitive former government contractor, who arrived in Moscow from Hong Kong on Sunday and was seeking asylum in Ecuador, reportedly by way of Havana.

A frustrated Secretary of State John F. Kerry said he was troubled by the apparent refusal of fellow world powers China and Russia to respond to espionage charges the United States had filed against Snowden, who leaked top-secret documents about U.S. surveillance programs.

“It is a very serious question for all of us in all our relationships,” Kerry said. “There is no small irony here,” Kerry added, posing the hypothetical question of whether Snowden sought refuge in China and Russia “because they’re such powerful bastions of Internet freedom.”

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Russia says it has no authority to expel Snowden; Kerry: ‘Deeply troubling’ (Original Post) Eugene Jun 2013 OP
Good for them. Nt darkangel218 Jun 2013 #1
Russia has no authority to detain Snowden ehcross Oct 2013 #2
 

ehcross

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2. Russia has no authority to detain Snowden
Mon Oct 14, 2013, 03:05 PM
Oct 2013

When is it that Russia became a role model of respect for authority?
When is it that Putin became obsessed with the rule of law?
In the excercise of blatant brutality Russia excels above the rest of the world.
The level of hypocrisy from this still brutal dictatorship has no limits.

Snowden is a fugitive of the United States, and comitted serious crimes against his country. Whether some people disagree doesn't change the fact that he violated the law and commited treason against his country. Revealing top secret information to none less than Russia (former archenemy of the United States, and actually still bitter enemy, from the evidence we are watching) is a serious violation of U.S. law and deserves the penalties U.S. law dictates.

No wonder Russia claims it has no authority to detain Snowden. Putin is a master of deception and is taking this opportunity to embarrass the United States, as all miserable ex-communist dictators do.

Edward Snowden is being heralded by many countries for being an example of courage for his achievements. He was surely impressibly well paid by his emplyers at NSA, and he surely had an oath of loyalty which he obviously dumped, not for the dumb reasons he mentioned but for the dirty russian money he is pocketing.

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