I think Putin can still give citizenship unilaterally, or the Russian Duma can.
Edvard Snowdensky.
It’s more than Obama’s technical proceedures that are the problem here. Russia does not extradite political criminals and has no extradition treaty with the USA. Even if Obama provided some wonderfully-written, and proof-laden smoking gun of law breaking, Putin is under no obligation of any kind to extradite him. Thank God he also has the stones to give Obama the finger and just say Nyet.
Snowden only revealed to the American people that we were the targets of a massive internal spying effort. Revealing treason to the people is not treason.
To believe Snowden should be prosecuted, you must believe that domestic spying, intercepting all American communications, NDAA, secret programs administered by secret courts, and secret trials that do not need warrants,, is all somehow “American”.
I remember the old days, when pilots fled the atheistic socialist USSR to find freedom of conscience in the USA. Today, the opposite is often happening. Something I never thought I’d see.
Maybe Putin will give him his own TV show.
Charges were filed against Snowden on June 14th - why didn’t they evoke his passport at that time? I can’t think of an ulterior motive but I’m pretty sure there is one.
“Meanwhile, Snowden can’t apply for a Russian visa without a valid passport.”
You can’t be serious. If he applies for a Russian Visa, that the Russians would somehow feel constrained and foiled again,,,,simply by DC revoking his passport? Imagine someone requesting political asylum here. Would we even pause because their home government revoked the validity of their passport?
No way.
seeking freedom in russia- wow-
WTF ever.
I don’t care if he sun bathes on a beach in the Bahamas.
FREE ERIC SNOWJOB!!!
Seemingly small matters can be the spark that sets the world on fire.
A long time ago a penniless young Serb shot an Austrian archduke and his wife. Because of a web of alliances and the hurt feelings and pride of a few stupid heads of state WW1 began.
So Russia refuses to extradite Snowden to the USSA. Zero has his feelings and pride hurt. Zero has a tantrum and lashes out at Putin by meddling in Syria in some childish manner. Putin gets pissed off and quickly sends the S-300 missile systems to Syria... possibly shuttling them there quickly using a few Antonov cargo jets. This results in US fighters going down trying to maintain a no-fly zone.
It could happen.... foolishness of this sort has happened before.
Russia has several options, from granting political asylum or citizenship to helping Snowden to negotiate asylum or citizenship elsewhere, and providing transportation under diplomatic cover to whichever country wanted him. Putin could fly him there himself, on the Russian equivalent of ‘Air Force One.’
Putin has a dark past but he is going to be loved by free people all over the world in the end if he keeps this up.
There is a REASON team 0bama ‘forgot’ to put Snowden’s name on the Interpol list, FAILING to revoke his Passport: 0bama is in on this wholesale giveaway of America’s national security and the outing of the NSA, while pretending that he’s not. ‘False flag’ people!!!
He may sit forever near the planes of Moscow, like Charlie on the MTA.
So we have Patrick Leahy (told Osama he was monitored by his sattelite phone from Tora Bora), Rockefeller (reading off Xerox machine trash in the Capital) (Turbin Durbin flying to Baghdad with McDermont giving aid to Bag Dad) and Pelosi Signing that Zippy is qualified as Pres__ent and we’re supposed to believe as Zip Pinhead supplies arms to al Quaeda, Snowden said something wrong? With friends like the U.S., I don’t need any Enemas.
So we have Patrick Leahy (told Osama he was monitored by his sattelite phone from Tora Bora), Rockefeller (reading off Xerox machine trash in the Capital) (Turbin Durbin flying to Baghdad with McDermont giving aid to Bag Dad) and Pelosi Signing that Zippy is qualified as Pres__ent and we’re supposed to believe as Zip Pinhead supplies arms to al Quaeda, Snowden said something wrong? With friends like the U.S., I don’t need any Enemas.
The valid US passport is a non-issue....it does not prevent a nation from allowing you in....esp if that nation requires a visa. The passport is mainly to allow you to return
Russia...or any nation....can issue a visa under any circumstances they proscribe
Exactly.. What school DID he graduate from? And about those academic records...