Bolivia vs. Europe over Snowden-linked plane delay

Associated Press ^ | July 3, 2013 | ANGELA CHARLTON

[Timber Rattler]

Bolivia's president left Europe for home on Wednesday in a flurry of diplomatic drama after his flight was rerouted and delayed in Austria, allegedly because of suspicion he was trying to spirit NSA leaker Edward Snowden to Latin America.

Bolivia accused the United States of ordering European countries to block President Evo Morales' flight from their airspace, and accused European governments of "aggression" by thwarting the flight.

[Timber Rattler]

Well, this is another fine mess that the Obama regime made for itself. A severely pissed-off Morales is now back in the air headed home to Bolivia, and Portugal, France, Spain, Italy, and Austria are all trying to pretend that this international incident never happened.

What a fiasco!

[Paladin2]

Socialist Food Fight!

[cripplecreek]

This one will come back and bite us.

[DannyTN]

I’m just glad there’s no wheeling and dealing going to get Snowden going on. /s

[dforest]

For some reason, to me, all this behavior seems childish and stupid.

[cripplecreek]

We’ve showed more respect to Iran’s idiot leadership and they’ve outright threatened us. Morales is an ass but has been pretty much harmless but I’m guessing that he’s about to become a much bigger problem.

[Steven Tyler]

0sama Bin Laden arranged for the murder of 3,000 ++ Americans
George Bush turned loose the dogs to track and locate 0BL

Snowden reveals to the US Citizens the corrupt and thuggish nature of the 0bama Government, and the bitter animosity these Federal lackeys have towards the US Citizen.
For this, revealing that the US Federal Government is spying on US Citizens, 0bama turned loose the dogs to hunt down Snowden

And here I thought Diplomatic pouches were not searched, Diplomats could travel without going through a TSA patdown

[Timber Rattler]

Heck, Morales is actually a head of state. Refusing his aircraft passage and then searching it on the ground (after it almost ran out of fuel) is akin to doing it to Air Force One. If I were him, I’d kick out all the diplomats from the involved countries, including the U.S., and close their embassies.

[dforest]

We could possibly trade Snowdon for Obama, most of the Senate and House, and a sloo of college professors.

Sounds like a good trade. LOL

[Buckeye McFrog]

Heck, Morales will probably grant him Citizenship and name him Ambassador to the UN after this.

[Buckeye McFrog]

and my second thought is “My God, they really DON’T know where he is, do they??”

[Grampa Dave]

Another press article on the latest:

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20130703/EU-NSA-Surveillance/

Bolivia accused the United States of ordering European countries to block President Evo Morales’ flight from their airspace, and accused European governments of “aggression” by thwarting the flight.

[ctdonath2]

No word on John Kerry’s involvement?

This is 100% his.
Even if/when the Obama ordered him to stop that flight (no way Barry didn’t know about it) it’s his job to say “HELL NO I’m not violating the diplomatic immunity of a president of a sovereign country just to find one person.”

[Timber Rattler]

Yep, Kerry got the call from Jarrett and did the dirty work. Now, this corrupt, incompetent, criminal regime has endangered the immunity and privileges of U.S. diplomats everywhere.