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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSen. Feinstein On Edward Snowden: "The Chase Is On"
(CBS News) "The chase is on," Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said Sunday on "Face the Nation," after the former National Security Agency contractor wanted by the United States for leaking top-secret government surveillance programs reportedly arrived in Moscow early Sunday morning from Hong Kong, where he had been hiding.
"I think it's a very big surprise," Feinstein said. "I had actually thought that China would see this as an opportunity to improve relations and extradite him to the United States. China clearly had a role in this, in my view. I don't think this was just Hong Kong without Chinese acquiescence."
The United States "doesn't know what happened," CBS News White House correspondent Major Garrett explained, having crafted under the extradition treaty charges that would be applicable in Hong Kong. "It put together what it said and thought were really good charges that represented everything we could legally prosecute Edward Snowden under," Garrett said, "thought there was an agreement with the Hong Kong authorities.
"...It looks like there was a technicality," he continued. "There was a lack of an Interpol warrant in addition to the charges rendered by the United States government, and that might have created a seam, a very small seam in which the Hong Kong authorities allowed themselves to let Edward Snowden out of there. It is also the belief within the administration that Hong Kong was getting weary of the saga and would prefer Edward Snowden to get out. He's gotten out, and he's now somebody else's problem - mainly the United States'."
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flamingdem
(39,308 posts)days before he left.
That seems to allow travel to any destination and it conveniently seems to depoliticize the situation to the benefit of transiting countries and the final destination country.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)So they let him go to Russia, which is so crazy they don't mind what they get into the middle of. Round and round and round it goes, and where he stops, nobody knows. Yet.
All I can say is, "Hasta la vista, baby."
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)China 'made final call' in Snowden's Hong Kong flight...
In DU LBN: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014516357
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Fuck that quisling DINO bitch!
Voted for the Iraq War, voted for the PATRIOT Act, voted for PIPA/SOPA, voted for video game censorship.
Authoritarian to the core.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Our security really sucks.
Amazing.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)The whole thing is farcical.
Life Long Dem
(8,582 posts)More...
"Don't underestimate the next strange twist," CBS News correspondent cautioned. "This movie isn't over yet. I don't know where it ends.
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"The Justice Department has put down charges that including charges under the Espionage Act, and I don't think either of those countries would want to play on that."
no_hypocrisy
(46,009 posts)Didn't this country smite Iran by protecting the Shah during their revolution?
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)Technicality wise, we are spying on the whole friggin' world including our own citizens. So maybe they are not quite as amenable to doing us any favors.