Update: CHINA added to asylum request list (wtf?) Snowden Slams Obama As Asylum List Revealed

[flamingdem]

Last edited Tue Jul 2, 2013, 01:20 AM - Edit history (1)

WTF! Spy time. He has added China to the list! Desperation makes for strange bedfellows.. I believe he has "contacts" unsavory no doubt, in Hong Kong. Just a hunch based on his decision to go there and how FAST they managed to arrange a protest movement for him.

As the President of Ecuador Rafael Correa said today:

"He's a SPY. He's been spying for a long time."

This was after speaking with Joe Biden.



http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324436104578580640258516774.html?mod=googlenews_wsj


http://www.piratefm.co.uk/news/world-news/1011062/snowden-slams-obama-as-asylum-list-revealed/

The 19 countries asked to offer asylum to Edward Snowden have been revealed - as the whistleblower accused Barack Obama of "deception".

Requests have been handed to Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Cuba, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Switzerland and Venezuela.

Delivered to an official at the Russian consulate at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow on Monday night, the pleas follow those previously made to Ecuador and Iceland.

The list emerged after Mr Snowden accused the US President of denying him a right to asylum and of putting political pressure on countries from which he has requested refuge.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Huh. So he wants Obama to offer him asylum.

Well, how about that!

[flamingdem]

3. He can haz

azylum wiht trial

[Pirate Smile]

2. What a fucking flake. He breaks the law in the US & the President

is supposed to let him get asylum somewhere or else he's a big, bad meanie! Or something.

He has the maturity of a toddler.

[flamingdem]

4. That's why they refer to him as

the leaker, as in diapers!

[Tarheel_Dem]

7. "Meanie" and a poopyhead. Why do folks keep forgetting that Obama's a poopyhead?

[Pirate Smile]

12. My mistake, please forgive me. President Poopyhead it is.

[Tarheel_Dem]

14. No harm. No foul. We must do things properly.

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. Mean State Dep't "unilaterally revoked" the passport of a US citizen with a Federal felony warrant

The NERVE of them!

[Pirate Smile]

16. Like the U.S. Government - spying on foreign countries - with its spy agencies & stuff-SHOCKING!

[arely staircase]

35. and he hasn't even been convicted of anything yet

he's just on the lam, not convicted. whoever heard of revoking a fugitive's passport? - and yeah, unilaterally at that. I mean why weren't Ron Paul and Julian Assange allowed to vote on it?

we are living in a police state.

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Oh, Lawd

[arely staircase]

6. he can always come here

And I have a feeling he soon will.

[flamingdem]

9. Everyone of those places other than Russia

are kind of a vacation paradise for a foreigner.

I think Kazakstan should get him!

[Chan790]

51. He has a bright future...

as the smartest goat-herder in Turkmenistan.

[Whisp]

10. Everyone gets a slam at Obama. There are Impeachment ads here on DU

What will you do if government comes for your guns?

Should Obama be impreached?

Second Amendment Foundation

http://www.saf.org/

[Cha]

11. Snowden's boringly ignorant.

[Tarheel_Dem]

13. OMG. Is this the reason he couldn't handle high school? Something's wrong with him.

[flamingdem]

15. He's at Romper Room level but he thinks he's

[Tarheel_Dem]

20. Exactly. I think it's called "delusions of grandeur"?

[arely staircase]

37. I just wonder what kind of nonsense Assange and GG have been and are telling him to stroke his ego.

I have the feeling this is a guy who has, for all his inexplicable security clearances, never really had to deal with many real world consequences. Until now.

[Tarheel_Dem]

42. It's just a shame that he's a pawn in their hatred of the US. Like it or not, he's notorious now.

And all the whining in the world for a return to his "normal" life cannot be blamed on Pres. Obama. He took his chances, he fled the country, and shared information with nations that we already don't have the best relationship with. He's gonna need to put on his big boy panties, and place the blame for his current status squarely on the people who manipulated him.

[struggle4progress]

28. To be fair, I too pretty much thought high school sucked

[Jamaal510]

41. If there's one thing I love about college

compared to high school, it's that there are no more cliques. With all the classes at different times and with a much larger student body, it is harder for there to be cliques and for a handful of the "cool" crowd to dominate the campus. Also, there's the fact that there are no guards blocking people from going home or going to the bathroom whenever they want to in college like at public schools.

[treestar]

17. Wonder what thought process went into that list

What were the criteria that spawned it?

Why not Australia, Canada, New Zealand? Why Finland and Norway but not Sweden and Denmark? Nicaragua but not Costa Rica or Panama? Oh and he forgot Ecuador.

[flamingdem]

18. No countries that have upcoming trade agreements

with the USA maybe?

Nicaragua I understand, they're left leaning.

Ecuador threw him under the bus today.

Australia, Canada, New Zealand.. US buddies and the Assange connection in Australia.

Basically, who knows but Assange and Sarah Hastings were probably up all night concocting the list.

[treestar]

23. good point. Ecuador didn't want to lose trade

that seemed to be behind the change of mind.

[flamingdem]

24. Did you see my update? Today Pres. Correa said this:

"Strictly speaking, Mr Snowden spied for some time". This was after a reporter asked if he'd like to meet Snowden and he said no, not particularly.

This came after the conversation with Joe Biden. I wonder if the administration knows more about Snowden. That's why he's extra desperate to get asylum.

Of course they have everyone wired so, lol, they should know what's up.

Correa was bending over backwards for him and angry with the USA, now uninterested in Snowden.

Really wondering what is known about Snowden and if he is a "spy" in the sense that he worked with others who are more insidious.

[treestar]

25. That does raise more questions

or re-raises that question he may have been a Chinese agent all along.

[Rstrstx]

36. Would the Chinese have agents that inept?

Or is it a really grand conspiracy?

Reminds me of the old saying "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence"

[MADem]

54. Sure they would....remember Robert Hanssen? He was a weirdo.

He spied for the Russkies for a couple of decades. Passed them all sorts of damaging information that negatively affected our security posture.

He also was a "fine upstanding member of the community," super religious, went to mass every single day of life, was a member of Opus Dei....and liked to be WATCHED. He wired up his house so his pals could watch him having sex (and his wife wasn't clued in on his little amusement). He was a busy boy on the internet when it came to sex chat. He also had a thing for strippers/prostitutes.

A real charmer. I imagine his family is just so proud of him, as he rots in jail...!

You take the ones you can get; you figure they might get burned eventually.

[arely staircase]

40. yeah but finding that out would probably take twice the five minutes of research

that Googling "extradition treaties with US" and "layovers from Moscow" would have. And he didn't know those. Not to mention "do I get to keep my passport if I'm indicted.?"

[longship]

19. He did not mention Antarctica.

Maybe they could provide him asylum. "I could be out fucking penguins with Jacques Cousteau".*


*Obscure cultural allusion: Miracle Mile

[flamingdem]

21. Or the North Pole

(He'd be looking for dancers there) nuck nuck

[flamingdem]

22. So Snowden might really be a spy

Verry interesting.

[jberryhill]

26. "No, Sal, we can't go to Wyoming..."

[Cha]

27. So, Snowden wants to go back to China.. if they'll change their

mind?

[flamingdem]

30. Isn't this cute? As Geegee says "Snowden had to ingratiate himself

with the Chinese". Oh yes he did!

He must mean Hong Kong but we know that's not much of a dividing line.

I really think he's thick as thieves with some hackers or shadowy figures
over there. Though we know he's incompetent that doesn't mean he
wasn't set up with people, maybe just anonymous or wikileaks hacker
sympathizers, but who knows exactly who they might be.

Anyone can put on a mask, would he notice if the difference, would he
care, that's the particular blindness dear Snowden suffers.

Snow blindness!

Joe Biden seems to have more goods on him. Now even Correa won't go
near Snowden. Considering we spy everywhere I'd say there's a good
chance we know more than is being told about this guy and his friends!

[Cha]

33. Yeah, Snowblindness is right. Glad Joe Biden

got in on this.. Pres Obama issued this from Senegal..

Obama: No wheeling or dealing to extradite SnowdenRead more: Obama: No wheeling or dealing to extradite Snowden

DAKAR, Senegal—The United States won't be scrambling military jets or engaging in high-level diplomatic bartering to get National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden extradited to the U.S., President Barack Obama said Thursday.
Dismissing him as "a 29-year-old hacker," Obama sought to downplay the international chase for Snowden, lowering the temperature of an issue that has already raised tensions between the U.S. and uneasy partners Russia and China.

Obama said the damage to U.S. national security has already been done and his top focus now is making sure it can't happen again.

Obama said such matters are routinely dealt with at a law-enforcement level, calling Snowden's extradition "not exceptional from a legal perspective." He said the U.S. has a wide-ranging economic relationship with China that shouldn't be dwarfed by the hunt for one fugitive, and that the U.S. has had "useful conversations" with Moscow over efforts to return Snowden to the U.S. Putin has called Snowden a "free man" and has refused to turn him over to Washington.

http://www.denverpost.com/hochman/ci_23550372/obama-no-wheeling-or-dealing-extradite-snowden#ixzz2Xrm7cSAe

[arely staircase]

29. Besides revealing exactly how much he cares about free societies

it is another example of what a dumbass the guy is. Shouldn't he have done that when he was, you know, IN China?

[flamingdem]

31. What a waste of airfare! Guess he was hoping to get to Iceland

or Ecuador where he'd look like less of a Chinese spy.

He sure is looking suspicious, even if desperate it's a mistake
to ask for asylum in China. It was also a mistake to ask for it
in Russia.

[Taft_Bathtub]

32. Wish Obama went after Wall Street as much as he did Snowden

Then again we all know who is going to pay for Obama's presidential library.

[DeSwiss]

38. +1000

[Tarheel_Dem]

43. If there's one thing Pres. Obama is a master at, it's collecting small dollar donations. I know....

this, because I'm one of the millions of small donors. He won't need Wall St for his library, all he'll have to do is ask.

[Taft_Bathtub]

44. That was actually a myth

Obama was funded by bundlers, just like Bush and every other presidential candidate.

http://www.beachwoodreporter.com/politics/obamas_small_donor_myth.php

Big Money still runs politics, unfortunately, and is a predictor of how a president will act once in office. In Obama's case, it was giving the banks a get out of jail free card.

[flamingdem]

45. On the last round they gave overwhelmingly to Romney nt

[Taft_Bathtub]

49. Bundlers didn't.

If you mean Wall Street, sure. They were "offended" by Obama's speeches. Mitt Romney didn't even pretend he was their puppet.

[Tarheel_Dem]

46. Steve Rhodes, proprietor of The Beachwood Reporter has a hard on for Democrats. He likes Greens.

I'd hardly call his work unbiased. He's a Naderite, and the Breitbart for the liberal left. And it is no myth that I donated my ass off, both in '08 & '12. Big money, as you call it, came from small donors. Change the record, that one's worn out.

[Taft_Bathtub]

48. Sorry, large donors more than doubled small donors like you

You can donate all you want, it'd take tens of thousands of individuals like you donating $200 just to match one bundler.

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/

Small Indiv Contrib $233,215,440
Large Indiv Contrib $489,660,089

[MADem]

34. What? No IRAN? No North Korea?

Eddie needs to step up his game.

I'll bet Pootie Poot will get back that arms dealer we have of his, after all this is over.

I can't believe that assclown thinks HE's the only one who can apply pressure to get his way.

Jerk. If Correa says he's a spy, Correa got a trade deal renewed!

[DeSwiss]

39. "He's a SPY. He's been spying for a long time."

Yes he was. Formerly in the employ of the US government.

- Apparently his puke reflexes aren't strong enough......

[AlinPA]

47. I'm surprised that he did not ask North Korea, Iran, or Syria.

[BOG PERSON]

52. north korea is the safest place imo

and from north korea's pov it would be such a glorious diss to the americans

[davidn3600]

53. Hell yeah...they'd have a parade

And Kim Jong Un would laugh his ass off at the US demanding extradition.

"Sure thing Obama...just as soon as you send back all our defectors!"

[AlinPA]

55. He would be a hero there.

[BOG PERSON]

50. any port in a storm n/t