Posted on 06/25/2013 2:48:26 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
MOSCOW — Russia's foreign minister has rejected U.S. demands to extradite National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, who has apparently stopped in Moscow while trying to evade U.S. justice.
Sergey Lavrov said that Snowden hasn't crossed the Russian border and insisted that Russia has nothing to do with him, his relations with U.S. justice or his travel plans.
Speaking at a news conference Tuesday, he angrily lashed out at the U.S. demands for the extradition and warnings of negative consequences if Moscow fails to comply.
Lavrov said that accusing Russia of "violation of U.S. laws and even some sort of conspiracy" with regard to Snowden is "absolutely ungrounded and unacceptable."
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Edward Snowden's stop-and-start flight across the globe appeared to stall in Moscow as the United States ratcheted up pressure to hand over the National Security Agency leaker who had seemed on his way to Ecuador to seek asylum.
In Ecuador's most extensive statement about the case, the foreign minister hailed Snowden on Monday as "a man attempting to bring light and transparency to facts that affect everyone's fundamental liberties."
The decision whether to grant Snowden the asylum he has requested is a choice between "betraying the citizens of the world or betraying certain powerful elites in a specific country," Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino told reporters while visiting Vietnam.
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Now that Obama has decided to arm the rebels in Syria, we’re at war with Russia, which is arming Bashar Assad’s side.
It’s like the Vietnam War, Russia vs. America, except this time it’s in the Middle East instead of the Far East.
Keeping Edward Snowden in the public eye allows Russia to present the bumbling, incompetent state of U.S. intelligence to any potential allies — Britain, France, etc. — who might be considering joining us in Syria.
It’s an enormous blunder that the Obama administration left its most sensitive intelligence information in the hands of a 29-year-old high school drop-out, then couldn’t prevent his blowing the whistle on the U.S.’s entire intelligence operation, and then couldn’t deal with the fall-out from the incident, nor even get the individual it believes is a dangerous traitor back into U.S. custody so he won’t spill the sensitive beans he’s supposedly carrying around with him.
What country would want to get involved in a war on the side of the U.S. under such a pathetic bunch of losers as the Obama administration has turned out to be?
I guess you missed the part where said that I reserve judgement. By the way, where is he supposed to go? The US or our allies? Yeah that will really work out for him. /s
The guy blows the whistle on our government's wanton and encroaching spying of honest citizens, and he is no hero? This brought to you by the same administartion that targets the Tea Party. (IRS) As far as I am concerned, Obama presents a bigger danger to our nation and is bigger enemy than Putin is..
Guess what....... you hold the same company as Dianne Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi, as they feel the same way as you. Proud?
I for one am going to reserve judgement until I found out what was disclosed. If it contains military information or strategies...then I will agree. Till then.............
I just don’t get the knee jerk among many conservatives to laud him as a hero.
I think blowing the lid on our government’s cart blanch spying on us is “heroic”. Not ready to call him a hero or traitor yet. Alot will depend of what he leaked to Russia China, and their allies.
Nice post!
>>Why am I rooting for a traitor?
Because, compared to the traitor Obama, Snowden is small potatoes.
I never thought I’d be rooting for the President of Russia either, but its that kind of messed up world these days.
“Well, I’m a Russia basher for the reason that they are stupid enough to let a KGB thug take over the country.”
Cool. List all the crimes that Putin has committed. Five is sufficient if you can find them, but 10 or 20 are allowed.
Well, Obama and his cabinet are about as classless as you get, and Putin is merely demonstrating the hows and whys of it.
The Obama Fascists want Snowden bad. My guess is that Snowden has something, maybe a Benghazi Card, to play.
I can hardly wait.
Play them like banjos Snowy!
Perfect.
There wouldn’t be any justification for all of this NSA stuff to begin with if we hadn’t passed one “Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill” after another for decades now.
“MOVE ON and other groups pay their trolls to come here and get their digs in.”
For sure. I’ve got one the hook right now. I’ll see if I can reel him in.
got a link SGT
“got a link SGT”
Nope. Sorry. The troll won’t respond. I did my best.
Best wishes to you and yours, manc.
Let’s see. The Chicago/DC thugs threaten any journalists that criticize his government and then they die young of highly suspicious "natural causes" Anyone who questions the death is called a kook. They tried to instigate/start a war against ..(take your pick)and have the "right wing" do the dirty work. They harass and blackmail and/or takeover corporate interests that get too uppity or large. And they use global warming as a hammer to threaten every man woman and child on the planet.
So your point is...?
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