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Bolivian minister: Evo Morales’ plane rerouted on suspicion Snowden on board
wapo ^ | 7/2/13 | ap

Posted on 07/02/2013 4:05:58 PM PDT by ColdOne

LA PAZ, Bolivia — The plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales home from Russia was rerouted to Austria on Tuesday after France and Portugal refused to let it cross their airspace because of suspicions that NSA leaker Edward Snowden was on board, the country’s foreign minister said.

Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca denied that Snowden was on the plane, which landed in Vienna, and said France and Portugal would have to explain why they canceled authorization for the plane.

“We don’t know who invented this lie. We want to denounce to the international community this injustice with the plane of President Evo Morales,” Choquehuanca said from Vienna, where the plane landed.

Morales met with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a summit of major gas exporters in the Kremlin.

Morales said in an interview with Russia Today television that Bolivia would be willing to consider granting asylum to Snowden.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: benghazi; bolivia; edwardsnowden; eu; eurabia; europeanunion; eussr; evo; fastandfurious; impeachnow; irs; morales; nsa; piracy; snowden
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To: ColdOne
"Morales met with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a summit of major gas exporters in the Kremlin."

So THAT'S where Baraq went.

21 posted on 07/02/2013 7:37:06 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Army dad. And damned proud of it.)
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To: ColdOne

Has anyone seen that this has been confirmed by either France or Portugal?


22 posted on 07/02/2013 7:38:36 PM PDT by Girlene (Hey, NSA!)
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To: Gamecock

Possibly flight plans that had to refile a little East for Jet Stream adjustments or something? Or a 48-craft POSHITUS airavan plaguing out of Africa like locusts?


23 posted on 07/02/2013 7:45:40 PM PDT by txhurl (RNC 'voter suppression': attempting to limit each voter to ONE vote!)
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To: rawhide
You would think France would be grateful to Snowdon because he exposed that the US is spying on them.

Uh..They are monitoring and spying on you too.

24 posted on 07/03/2013 12:14:17 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: ColdOne

This story makes no geogrphical sense.


25 posted on 07/03/2013 12:17:55 AM PDT by jimjohn
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To: wideawake; memyselfandi59
The math is pretty simple: if I harbor a citizen of another country who committed espionage against that country, then I have little chance that I will be able to ask other countries for help when I need to track down one of my own fugitives.

What??

It's was the U.S. government doing the espionage on that country which is harboring the person who ratted out the country committing espionage, which was the U.S. government.

LOL!

26 posted on 07/03/2013 12:21:57 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: ColdOne
LOL! Hapless Bolivian president humiliated by the Won! And for no steenkin' reason!

I'm sure there must be an upside to such brilliant, French-looking foreign diplomacy, but it escapes me.

Even when Obama's not trying to cut the United States down to size, he successfully cuts the United States down to size.

27 posted on 07/03/2013 12:28:35 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: ColdOne

France? Interesting.


28 posted on 07/03/2013 12:50:54 AM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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To: rawhide
You would think France would be grateful to Snowdon because he exposed that the US is spying on them.

You would think that except Snowdon may know about a lot of government sins and not just the US govt. sins. Do you really think the govt. of France has been squeaky clean over the years ?

29 posted on 07/03/2013 1:45:59 AM PDT by staytrue
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To: ColdOne

This is what happens when Barry and John both go overseas and leave Slow Joe running things.


30 posted on 07/03/2013 2:54:57 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("New Yorks Finest" are now "The Untouchables")
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To: jimjohn
It makes perfect sense. The Bolivian Presidential Falcon 900 can't make Moscow to La Paz in one hop, so it was going to refuel in Portugal.

While in the air, Portugal announced it would not to be allowing to enter their air space. France followed.

That left FAB1 orbiting above Austria for 3 hours until low fuel forced a landing.

31 posted on 07/03/2013 3:14:44 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("New Yorks Finest" are now "The Untouchables")
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To: Oztrich Boy

Okay, I’ll buy that. Next we should confirm this from the Portuguese and French side. Assuming its true, by denying airspace, aren’t the pretty much giving a ‘heads up’ to that place not to land here because...well... ‘drones have eyes’ ?


32 posted on 07/03/2013 4:39:10 AM PDT by jimjohn
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To: Oztrich Boy
Updated report from the AP

If this story holds up (note I take anything from state-sponsored/monitored media with a grain of salt these days), this sounds like a little fishing and possible bait/switch operation by the Christians In Action over at Langley to try to smoke out Snowden's location. Meaning like me, they're not buying the 'hiding-in-a-russian-airport' line.

Like I said in a previous post, for all we know, Dude could be chilling just south of 8-Mile in Detriot for all we know. I also suspect that despite media reports, the U.S. probably isn't getting the help they're expecting from some of our 'allies'.

On another note, some of us on the tin-foil-hat brigade have been suspecting what dirty secrets they must be worried about to go through all this trouble. Some say it could be information about a certain birthplace. I'd call that small potatoes. No, it would have to be something bigger - something say... they could NOT spin their way out of...

e.g. The U.S. Treasury has no plans to make good on T-bills owned by foreigners (debt repudiation); the plan to wipe out all 401K's(Greek haircut - American style), or the real number of Americans that have denounced their citizenship in other countries(and moved assets offshore), possibly something about the last national elections... ya know - something major like that.

And to the NSA, et al: I'm just speculating. I have no inside knowledge, so don't blame me for leaking this if it happens to be true.

33 posted on 07/03/2013 5:00:52 AM PDT by jimjohn
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To: ColdOne
Pooty Poot is playing 0bama like a Stradivarius.

5.56mm

34 posted on 07/03/2013 5:03:58 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: ColdOne

That kid is dead.

The response indicates that he is closer to the truth than many here suggest.


35 posted on 07/03/2013 5:17:39 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: ColdOne

Snowden is doing a good job of separating the Conservatives from the “Snowden is a traitor” Hussein Heads at FR for us lately.


36 posted on 07/03/2013 5:33:59 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: jimjohn
This story makes no geogrphical sense.

According to the story the plane in question is a Dassault Falcon. It was probably planning on a refueling stop in Portugal or the Azores before continuing on to Bolivia. I doubt it has the range to make it from Moscow to LaPaz non-stop.

37 posted on 07/03/2013 5:52:43 AM PDT by 0.E.O
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To: dragnet2
If the US was holding a Russian who spied for China against Russia and was under indictment, Russia would request extradition.

We would likely refuse to hand him over to Russia, and would also likely refuse to grant him asylum.

In other words, we would be telling Russia that we understand where they're coming from but that we will not act as an extension of the Russian government.

That's exactly what Russia is doing now with regards to the US.

38 posted on 07/03/2013 6:00:08 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: memyselfandi59

I think maybe they dont want to get scorn of Obama. I also think many countries DO want Snowden to release more info on US international spying on them. Once Snowden start flapping his lips about international matters the game changed.


39 posted on 07/03/2013 6:01:43 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: plain talk

It’s obvious. Adolf Hitler, in his Bolivian lair, wants the hi-tech assistance of Mr. Snowden. <8^0


40 posted on 07/03/2013 6:08:40 AM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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