Posted on 07/05/2013 4:26:24 PM PDT by drewh
Edward Snowden denied Icelandic citizenship after being voted down by its parliament The vote leaves Snowden - believed to be staying in a transit area at a Moscow airport - with one option fewer as he seeks a country to shelter him from U.S. espionage charges.
Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, was denied citizenship by Iceland.A bid by Edward Snowden for Icelandic citizenship failed when the country's parliament voted not to debate it before the summer recess, lawmakers said on Friday.
The vote leaves Snowden - believed to be staying in a transit area at a Moscow airport - with one option fewer as he seeks a country to shelter him from U.S. espionage charges.
Six members of parliament tabled a proposal late on Thursday to grant Snowden citizenship after they received a request from him via WikiLeaks, opposition parliamentarian Birgitta Jonsdottir said.
But a majority of parliamentarians voted late on Thursday against allowing the proposal to be put on the agenda, a day before parliament went into summer recess. It does not reconvene until September.
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Global warming says Antartica is having a warming trend!
No frozen sweets for the snow man.
Whatever anyone thinks of Snowden himself and his actions-who doesn’t think that if this had happened under a Republican administration, he would have his pick of places to go?
This dude is going to have to find Narnia for safety.
Have we heard from Cuba? That would seem like his best bet.
I think Cuba would be an excellent place for him.
He could be a tour guide.
This would-be Daniel Ellsburg has nowhere to go. Boohoo. He’ll have to come back to the USA and face the music.
Snowden must have the family jewels, or is suspected of having, to provoke this kind of intimidation campaign from the Obamanoids against so many countries. I don’t remember anybody else having so much trouble obtaining asylum.
If the President was a white Republican, he'd be on easy street.
Welcome to Free Republic. Why Cuba?
Too d@mn bad. Icelandic women are hot!
I don’t see the comparison to D.E. Please enlighten me.
I got some news for ya deputy, he isn’t going to face any American music.
Because he deserves to live in such an idylic tropical paradise. That being said I am basically glad he did what he did to embarrass and damage Obama. My thinking is that this stuff is being kept as an attempt to suppress everyone outside of their little leftist tent. But, since he is really one of them Cuba would give him a tasted of what these people are really all about.
I’m sick of all this ‘believed to be in Moscow’.
He verifiably is or isn’t.
I hope he stowed away on Morales’ plane and now can pop up in the non-commie countries that require an asylum applicant be on their soil when applying.
Bolivian President Evo Morales is the leader of the Bolivian “Movement Toward Socialism” Party.
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