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In reply to the discussion: is a liveblog of Snowdens movements the biggest troll in history? [View all]Monkie
(1,301 posts)fidel wont work, russia is not the same "enemy" to the US it used to be.
you know the "invade" was a joke, to signify the fact that he is not currently on russian soil but in no-mans land.
up to 8 years means exactly that, if he were to chose to fight extradition from a EU nation state through the national courts right up to the ECHR, the european court for human rights, then it could take 8 years as it did for abu hamza.
and how rendition works? the US has a long history of kidnapping people and holding them without trail at GITMO, so plenty of practice.
there are carriers in the Mediterranean, the US could fly planes to the UK and ask its poodle for permission to take off from their, a few jets is all it would take to divert a private plane to a destination from which snowden could be flown to a federal facility.
its not rocket science.
but the one thing the US cant do, is force other nations to believe its own delusions.