Posted on 08/02/2013 10:03:28 PM PDT by John Semmens
Russia’s decision to grant a temporary one-year asylum to NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden was described as “unfortunate” and “extremely disappointing” by Presidential Press Secretary Jay Carney.
Carney contrasted “Russia’s uncooperative stance with FDR’s extraordinarily accommodating attitude toward the repatriation of millions of unwilling refugees from the Soviet Union after World War II. FDR knew that these refugees didn’t want to go back. Many faced torture, imprisonment in the Gulag, and execution. He could have balked for humanitarian reasons. But his personal sense of obligation to Stalin overrode his qualms.”
“Now with the roles reversed, Stalin’s heirs won’t even return one man to us,” Carney complained. “Where’s their sense of honor? We tried to make it easy on them by promising not to torture or kill Snowden. It’s as if they don’t trust us. It’s a slap in the face to the whole ‘reset button’ strategy initiated by this Administration.”
Gaining permission to remain in Russia is considered a major setback for the Obama Administration’s efforts to settle accounts with Snowden. It is one of the few places where the Administration would likely be reluctant to exercise its option to order him taken out via a drone strike. However, Snowden’s possible removal via covert extraction or assassination is an option that cannot be ruled out.
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If we had a real president, Snowden would be back in our hands by now. However ...
Obama has become Putin’s fly on the window sill .... Putin has just begun pulling off his wings.
I wonder if we’re going to reset the reset button?
Funny, but even funnier is how transparent Obama is whenever his dander is up. Just like with Palin, he proclaims Snowden isn’t worth getting excited about - “relatively insignificant” is I think how he described it. Yet at the same time, his people are out talking about how damaging Snowden is, whining like Carney here about how mean Putin is for not returning him, making threats....
They get all wee-wee’d up over things they say aren’t very important (like the Tea Party, and a former Governor of Alaska)...
Obama Administration irks sane Americans.
Agreed...but as said....However...
Satire. Calm down.
What happens after a year?
i wish putin was speaker
why does boehner have such small balls??
Wonder What Snowden knows of Benghazi??????????
Too much alcohol.
Not bad, but it was on Truman’s watch, not FDRs, although Roosevelt’s minions were still running the show.
It was FDR at Yalta who agreed to forcibly repatriate these refugees.
But Truman who delivered them.
I don’t know this is what would happen..but I read that a lot of countries that Snowden applied for asylum said he had to be in their embassy before granted.
Maybe he will eventually try to get to one.
Just my conjecture...but hasn’t that Assausge guy been in an embassy for a couple of years. Probably more comfy, and protected than the airport.
“If we had a real president, Snowden would be back in our hands by now”
If we had a real President, Snowden wouldn’t have had to inform the American people of his treasonous ignoring of the 4th Amendment and his creation of an internal Stasi.
Good. Let them feel what they generate in the population.
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