Stuck in an airport? I think there was a movie about this.
Laughably ignorant. A passport is not permission to travel, it is permission to re-enter your home country. It is the visa that is your permission to enter another country.... and since Mr Snowden has the personal attention of numerous international leaders, especially Russia’s, I doubt he will have any problem getting access to visas for numerous other countries, even if our idiotic leader has declared his passport to be void.
Convenient Kabuki Theatre. Putin can do anything he wants to as well as any airline connected with a government willing to accept Snowdon.
Putin and the Media are taking advantage of the idea of a liberal Democrat Movie and actor that is pure idyllic bullshit.
The script allows Putin to make a fool of our foolworthy pResident - more power to him.
Have they confirmed that he is in fact in the terminal and not in one of Putin's luxury dachas somewhere drinking champagne and eating caviar?
I have never had an airline check my passport before taking my money for a ticket
So, according to the law, he must spend the rest of his life in the transit area of the Moscow airport?
Probably makes more sense for him to just disappear someplace in Russia anyhow. He is of value to Putin who will have his back. Obama would not dare try a drone strike or send a hit squad after him on Russian territory.
Both things are possibilities in Ecuador. Plus the political opposition there is not 100% on-board with Correa’s “Tweak Uncle Sam” program. The next election there could leave Snowden out there hanging.
Odd that his passport was not revoked until he’d made it from Hong Kong to Russia.
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.
I wonder if they will make him a citizen and issue him a passport.
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?
“Vedomosti”, a Russian newspaper, was told by a Moscow-based lawer, that by cancelling Snowden’s passport the U.S. government has created “an emergency situation” according to the Russian law, which makes Snowden eligible for elongating his transit visa, if he has one. If he doesn’t, he commits a mesdemeanor punished with $30 fine.