Russian President Vladimir Putin says Edward Snowden still in airport, signals no extradition

cbs ^ | June 25, 2013, Updated 2:30 p.m. ET

[Red Steel]

NAANTALI, Finland Russian President Vladimir Putin bluntly rejected U.S. pleas to turn over National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on Tuesday, saying he is free to travel wherever he wants and insisting that Russian security agencies haven't contacted him.

Snowden is in the transit zone of a Moscow airport and has not passed through Russian immigration, Putin said, meaning he is not technically in Russia.

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A high-ranking Ecuadorean official told The Associated Press that Russia and Ecuador were discussing where Snowden could go, saying the process could take days. He also said Ecuador's ambassador to Moscow had not seen or spoken to Snowden. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case publicly.

[wideawake]

Again, Snowden has publicly handed the PRC a propaganda victory. He has openly betrayed his country's intelligence operations against the PRC to the PRC.

The "but she did worse, I think" is a morally bankrupt argument.

[manc]

no you miss my point, The Govt is spying on us and I’ll wait for the talking points from Obama, the elitist establishment to be true in the future.

[wideawake]

Snowden's betrayal of the US to the PRC is not a "talking point" for "the future."

It is an accomplished fact which he acknowledges.

Hence, he has committed treason by any imaginable legal standard.

[Political Junkie Too]

Snowden is in the transit zone of a Moscow airport and has not passed through Russian immigration

-PJ

[manc]

I take it as a talking point and next one is he did it for Russia.

I trust no one anymore after what Snowden has proved and how this admin wants him o bad and boy do they

[tacticalogic]

Again, Snowden has publicly handed the PRC a propaganda victory. He has openly betrayed his country's intelligence operations against the PRC to the PRC.

The "but she did worse, I think" is a morally bankrupt argument.

Propaganda victory? Any credibility or claim to moral high ground we had on the international stage Obama flushed down the crapper a long time ago. I have no faith at all that any information this adminstration gathered on the PRC would be used to protect us, so I don't have any reason to care if they find out.

[PieterCasparzen]

Everyone seems to overlook the fact that Snowden provided the government of China with independent verification that we have been spying on the government of China.

That is information that has nothing to do with US civil rights or the civil rights of anyone in the world.

It was a gift from Snowden to a dictatorship.

America gives a gift of hundreds of billions of profits in trade to China every year. In 2012 alone, according to census.gov, this amounted to a net trade balance worth approximately $315 billion dollars on the positive side for China.

Chinese are very active politically in the US, have operatives all throughout government and business.

China owns somewhere around trillion in US government debt.

The US-China relationship is not an "enemy" relationship.

[wideawake]

The US-China relationship is not an "enemy" relationship.

Sounds like the Jonathan Pollard argument.

[tacticalogic]

Obama treats every agency and aspect of the federal government as a resource to be used to advance his political agenda, not something to be managed to fulfill an oath of office to all Americans.

Intelligence information gathered on the PRC, or any foreign country will be used to help his friends and political allies like George Soros and the MB make a lot of money and advance their own political ambitions, and in turn help him advance his political agenda here. Anything that thows a monkeywrench into those gears does a service to the republic, IMHO.

When the national government becomes an enemy of the republic it all goes sideways, and we're there.

[PieterCasparzen]

The US-China relationship is not an "enemy" relationship.

Sounds like the Jonathan Pollard argument.

You've been promoting the Chinese spy theory from the outset.

Real spies don't go public; no major intelligence agency would want a spy to go public or would likely deploy an operative that would be dumb enough to go public because the idea came to them. It's called blowing your cover, for Chinese and Russians, if done intentionally, could be very bad for the spy's health. Real spies just do their job and send information back through their handlers. China has thousands of spies in America in the government and private sector, and without a doubt they have known about NSA evesdropping for years.

You NEVER mention WILLIAM BINNEY. If the Chinese simply perused American newspapers they would have been "on to" the fact that NSA was steadily expanding its electronic surveillance over the years. There are a whole host of electronic spying programs that are PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE that the US government has operated for decades.

The only possibility for Snowden being a foreign agent is if a foreign country sponsored his operation - with the intent that he go public - so American patriots would get upset enough and cause enough of a domestic political uproar that the NSA foreign spying operation would be shut down.

It is, however, highly doubtful that intelligence services of foreign nations are THAT dumb. Anyone smart enough to conceive of such an operation would realize that American patriots have no issue with American intelligence services eavesdropping on FOREIGN nations. After all, that's what intelligence services... are... well... supposed to do.

[PieterCasparzen]

Obama treats every agency and aspect of the federal government as a resource to be used to advance his political agenda, not something to be managed to fulfill an oath of office to all Americans.

Presidents come and go, the NSA lives on.

The "financial oligarchy" calls the shots and manages intelligence agencies by placing "their people" at the top of them. Whoever is President, the same globalists are pulling the strings.

[tacticalogic]

Whoever is President, the same globalists are pulling the strings.

Then I'm going to root for the guy with the scissors.

[devolve]

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