Posted on 06/25/2013 2:48:26 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
MOSCOW — Russia's foreign minister has rejected U.S. demands to extradite National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, who has apparently stopped in Moscow while trying to evade U.S. justice.
Sergey Lavrov said that Snowden hasn't crossed the Russian border and insisted that Russia has nothing to do with him, his relations with U.S. justice or his travel plans.
Speaking at a news conference Tuesday, he angrily lashed out at the U.S. demands for the extradition and warnings of negative consequences if Moscow fails to comply.
Lavrov said that accusing Russia of "violation of U.S. laws and even some sort of conspiracy" with regard to Snowden is "absolutely ungrounded and unacceptable."
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Edward Snowden's stop-and-start flight across the globe appeared to stall in Moscow as the United States ratcheted up pressure to hand over the National Security Agency leaker who had seemed on his way to Ecuador to seek asylum.
In Ecuador's most extensive statement about the case, the foreign minister hailed Snowden on Monday as "a man attempting to bring light and transparency to facts that affect everyone's fundamental liberties."
The decision whether to grant Snowden the asylum he has requested is a choice between "betraying the citizens of the world or betraying certain powerful elites in a specific country," Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino told reporters while visiting Vietnam.
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“Either way, no matter how innocent he may be it does make me nervous that he’s flying around the world with laptops of data of US secrets that either could given out for the right price or secrets worth killing for.”
I’m sure it’s encrypted to the point that it isn’t even “data” anymore.
according to a Drudge update, Putin referred the US position as “drivel.”
Yep but he has black skin and nothing else matters, we got diversity in the White Hut. Yay! Isn’t that the most important thing? Oops, sorry to the gays...you guys are also so very important, can’t forget a shout out to you....let nobody say we progressive Americans aren’t worried about the most important stuff....
An investigation led to to the 2005 raid by Russian police on Soros offices in Moscow. Unfortunately, the pig Soros wasn’t there. They asked the U.S. to extradite Soros. The U.S. told them to pound sand, since we don’t have an extradition treaty with Russia.
soros belongs to a group of people that contribute so much money to politicians and have so many political fund raisers at their mansions, they almost never get prosecuted for anything.
(they can even get away with things for three decades even when others bring it up to the authorities, the party ending only when they turn themselves in when the jig is up)
This guy steps up and tells America they’re traitorous government is bugging, wiretapping, monitoring and spying upon them and the leftist develop their script, labeling Snowden as the traitor...
yeah, they linda tripped him
you too
“Infiltration has been the downfall of this forum. Not much has been done to stop them, even though they’re easily identifiable. I’m guessing the admins have been infiltrated as well.”
I can’t agree more. I seem to recall FR getting new “moderators” about a year ago....
Care to elaborate on your position in regards to this?
Agree...BTW, you been following the Z trial?
The defense is cleaning the clock of the corrupt government prosecution.
“Agree...BTW, you been following the Z trial?”
Yes, and I think that’s why they seated “6” white women (5 white women and a “white hispanic” woman).... so the judge can let the case progress to jury despite no real evidence against Z and then they can incite race riots for a not-guilty verdict.
No, "we" are the enemy in this case.
We are the enemy for collecting meta data?
Yes. We have met the enemy, and it is us, my FRiend. :(
I get the feeling that this whole thing has an element of payback for Viktor Bout.
Litvinenko is linked to Goldfarb and Berezovsky who worked with Soros in an attempt to destroy the Russian economy. Berezovsky was wanted in Russia for plotting a coup. Putin is no saint, but he will protect Russia from international criminals like Soros and Hillary.
No saint? You got that right. The guy is a KGB tyrant pining for the old USSR.
No he’s not. He wants a strong Russia that’s a player on the world stage, but that’s hardly comparable to a return to the USSR.
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