Posted on 06/26/2013 6:18:18 AM PDT by RummyChick
Edward Snowden is not booked to fly out of Moscow over the next three days, and with no valid passport, the NSA whistleblower might be stuck in airport limbo indefinitely.
The hot pursuit of Snowden has ground to a halt three days after the former CIA technician, wanted in the US on espionage charges, flew into Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport from Hong Kong.
Washington, which wants Snowden for leaking details of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) dragnet telephone and internet surveillance programs, charges that there is a clear legal basis for Moscow to hand him over.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who confirmed that Snowden had arrived in Moscow as a transit passenger despite speculation to the contrary, rebuffed US demands on Tuesday.
“We can only extradite any foreign citizens to such countries with which we have signed the appropriate international agreements on criminal extradition,” Putin said, adding that as Snowden had committed no crime on Russian soil, he is free to travel at will.
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beginning to remind me of the short story “man without a country’ by Edward Everett Hale. Phillip Nolan, an army officer curses his country and is sentenced to sail forever on a Navy ship without ever seeing the United States.
A Russian air terminal has to be a worse hell than a Navy ship if you have to stay there forever.
It’s Russia. Anything can be had for the right price.
Just like this country.
“He began in Hawaii. If he’d gotten on a sailboat, he’d be posting from Ecuador today.”
Not exactly ...
He’d be sitting in a Tampa, FL prison for being a father to his blood children.
“He began in Hawaii. If he’d gotten on a sailboat, he’d be posting from Ecuador today.”
Not exactly ...
He’d be sitting in a Tampa, FL prison for being a father to his blood children.
Thank you CNN rats.
I wonder if they will make him a citizen and issue him a passport.
there ya go
Maybe Snowden has an agent searching for property for him to buy in St Kitts
http://www.economiccitizenship.org/
I don’t think he will have any trouble buying a ticket. He’s waiting for Ecuador to give him the final OK to get asylum. Or maybe Iceland who knows?
Oh man! great image...lol
Maybe he misses his ex girl friend and just wants to stay at the airport and get fondled on a regular basis by security?
Terrible, my apologies.
...and before boarding? Because it's no use being able to buy a ticket if you still aren't allowed onboard.
Also: Ever try to fly from Moscow without a passport?
In post-Soviet Russia, airline take money, not issue you ticket, then report you to authorities!
I was once marooned for 24 hours at Domodedovo International Airport, where I had arrived (late - the Ukrainian plane had been delayed) from the Crimea, because my (substitute) connecting flight back to Western Europe was from a different terminal - just because I didn't have a valid Russian visa which the small-minded bureaucrats required to travel the few hundred meters in the airport bus.
Regards,
lol!
My own escape pod, mid-Pacific. I sailed solo from Panama to Hawaii to Guam. I could have had a SEAL squad aboard, and none the wiser.
And there are thousands of us out there crisscrossing the oceans right now. (Shoot, just the Brits would be thousands.) Airport security lines give govts the impression of omniscience. They are just cattle dipping lines for those who can't sail.
OMG, give up all hope!
“Airport security lines give govts the impression of omniscience. They are just cattle dipping lines for those who can’t sail.”
Or fly their own damned plane. :)
People acquiesce.
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