Posted on 06/26/2013 5:44:24 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Edward Snowden: confusion over name helped him leave Hong Kong
Paperwork from the United States demanding the arrest of Edward Snowden confused his middle name and lacked his passport number, Hong Kong said, defending its decision to allow him to fly to Moscow.
By Malcolm Moore, Beijing
11:27AM BST 26 Jun 2013
Hong Kong's Justice secretary, Rimsky Yuen, said the US had messed up the basic details of its application.
The application listed Mr Snowden's middle name as "James" or simply by the initial "J", but Hong Kong's immigration had the name "Joseph", he said.
"We believe his name needed to be clarified or it would create legal problems," he said.
He added that the US had also failed to provide his passport number. "In our view, passport numbers are key information to identify a person."
The US has lashed out at Hong Kong for failing to detain the former CIA employee and intelligence whistleblower.
The White House has insisted that the paperwork that the US submitted to Hong Kong was in order and arrived "in plenty of time to have prohibited travel".
"We are just not buying this was a technical decision by a Hong Kong immigration official," said Jay Carney, the White House spokesman. "This was a deliberate choice by the government to release the fugitive despite a valid arrest warrant."
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This administration could f up an anvil.
Where is that reset button? Ohhhh riiigghhttt, they f-ed that up too.
The rest of the world sure is enjoying this, and in this case I’m laughing right along with em.
they have a good diplomatic excuse
Close enough for government work.
some enterprising person should do a photo like this one with the music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5sQL7q_IOI
Here we are supplying weapons to Al Qaeda and worried about catching this man for exposing Obama’s plot to destroy the Constitution.
These guys would screw up a two car funeral.
Wasn’t one of the Boston bombers let back in the country because of a SNFU with paperwork?
drudge reporting decision from ecuador could take months
So Snowden set to live in The Terminal like Tom Hanks.
Except I don’t believe he is there.
We haven’t seen one picture from anyone
Truth be told, Putin appears to be more of a libertarian capitalist than the President of the United States. It is a sad time for America.
BS.....
This guy is under so much surviellience by us, China and a dozen others that his departure was well known....
The request was hand delivered official to official.... Everyone knew who it was for......
That a major paper bought into this nonsense is embarrassing for them....
Geeez...
Nope, I am too! I am also surprised I have sided with Putin against Obama. I wonder when the US Gov will be coming for me! LOL
Snowden could spend the next 10 years in the Transit area according to someone in Russia
So who is paying THAT bill
les incompetent
yes, you have to be careful drafting and not just do some crappy cut and paste. If nothing else, legal docs should be correct.
I used to review civilian warrants for certain legal requirements before the civilian leos could arrest our soldiers. If they weren’t up to par, they got sent back.
That is all that has happened here, the US patched together some garbage and emailed it to Honk Honk but it failed to pass muster.
I’m surprised the DOJ didn’t just twitter the arrest warrant.
“capture snowden 4 us, bad guy, send 2 us chop-chop/asap. eric”
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