Prominent Moscow lawyer Genry Reznik was among those invited to attend the meeting at the airportPosted on 07/12/2013 6:55:42 AM PDT by Freelance Warrior
Airport spokeswoman Anna Zakharenkova confirmed about 10 people had been invited to the meeting which was scheduled to take place in the transit area at around 17:00 local time (14:00 GMT).
"We will provide access and premises," she was quoted as saying. "The exact list (of attendees) is not known."
A large press scrum gathered at the airport ahead of the meeting, while Interfax reported Mr Snowden had moved from his room in the airport's Capsule Hotel to attend the meeting.
In the message, the 30-year-old fugitive complained that the US government was waging an "unlawful campaign" to prevent him from securing asylum.
"This dangerous escalation represents a threat not just to the dignity of Latin America or my own personal security, but to the basic right shared by every living person to live free from persecution," the message read.
The email said the fugitive wanted to discuss the "next steps forward" in his situation.
Prominent Moscow lawyer Genry Reznik was among those invited to attend the meeting at the airport
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Edward Snowden has a problem. He is in a no-man’s-land, unable to move across Russian territory to some seaport where he could be transported over the open sea to the destination willing to give him asylum, and he cannot embark on an airplane flight that does not pass over, at some point, air space that is under the control of either the US or some other country with which we have an extradition treaty and is a supposed ally.
A number of hurt feelings abound in this situation. But nothing that a sufficiently large infusion of cash could not resolve.
Only, who is willing to put up the front money?
I think a fundraising effort would be quite successful in this case. As for his id problem, I think, there is only one solution: a country issues him a passport, probably Venezuela.
"It has been confirmed that fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden had holed up at an airside capsule hotel at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, but has recently moved out, Russian media say."
Also noteworthy from this same source:
"NSA leaker Edward Snowden has given encoded files containing an archive of secret NSA files to several people, Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald told The Daily Beast.
Snowden “has taken extreme precautions to make sure many different people around the world have these archives to insure the stories will inevitably be published,” Greenwald said.
He added that the files are “highly encrypted” and corresponding passwords to render them readable have not yet been distributed."
Image could be Snowden. No way to confirm.
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So they’ve ensured that he can continue being a threat and nothing is being done to those people?
Snowden’s not exactly making his case better and he’s now endangered the lives of those people that he met. The only next step forward is for him to unconditionally hand himself over to the US.
By preventing asylum for Snowden to say a liberal modern place like Iceland...... Traitorous Obama who I will blame for this, is forcing Snowden to seek refuge in Russia so that Putin will eventually get all the NSA and other secrets. Putin’s agents obviously have ways to get passwords out of people via psych drugs etc that will never leave a mark. No kneecapping or pulling fingernails is needed to get Snowdens passwords.
Once Snowden leaves this Moscow airport lounge and goes into Russia this extraction of passwords will take place. Traitors in the Obama regime want this.
Poor baby.
What makes you think Putin hasn't gotten them already?
If you mean those rights defending activists, they're all of Russian origin. By harming them the U.S. government would undermine it's influence (whatever it is) in Russia.
But the fact, that among those people there're no U.S. nationals, can put many people deep in thought about it, I guess.
Agreed. This situation provides just TOO sweet a set-up for somebody to stick another finger in Obama’s eye.
US amb. to Russia @McFaul reportedly called member of human rights delegation, asked her to relay to Snowden that he isn't a whistleblower.
The media frenzy is disgusting. Reporters are the lowest form of life, before marxists, jihadis, and democrats.
Nothing else is plausible.
I believe Snowden has been able to hold onto the encryption keys....That Putin does not have them...yet
There was an article in Gizmodo the other day about how the Russians are all of a sudden ordering typewriters and ribbons because they're pulling their intelligence offices off of networks and back on to hardcopy paper documents. So what do you suppose caused the sudden change in operating mode? Why had China suddenly been all up in arms on specifics of outside agencies hacking into their computers? Anyone who thinks that China and Russia are supporting Snowden out of the goodness of their hearts is delusional. Both countries got well paid in the only currency Snowden has, our secrets. Putin has already gotten his intelligence bonanza.
As for encryption keys, any that Snowden had have long since been changed.
The more nobody acts to repatriate him, the more I'm wondering if anyone really wants Snowden to face justice. That, and if something results in his repatriation, it's looking more likely to be as a result of a private citizen.
He's done nothing truly damaging to the administration, just his former employers so far.
I’d think that the keys that are now being used by Snowden would be not of the government’s ownership - but of his own or of a trusted party of theirs.
Reports that Snowden was traveling with four laptops worth of material that would be encrypted by Snowden. And hopefully still encrypted and the keys not in Putins hands
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