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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 27 2013 @ 05:44 PM EDT |
US failure to clarify Snowden papers tied HK's hands
South China Morning
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Prism program – who are the principal victims?
People's Daily
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‘find your lost whistleblower’ service
newsbiscuit.com
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 27 2013 @ 06:02 PM EDT |
I somehow doubt the US government issued him extra passports.
Of course you could try to get one through less then legitimate sources... but
why bother. Doing so chances that your supplier is a plant, increases your
chance of being caught at the airport as you have a fake passport, and at the
time of leaving the US everyone thought he was taking a legitimate short term
break from work.
I find is easily believable that the US really didn't file sufficient stuff to
have him extradited. As they really don't have sufficient reason to extradite
him. Since they knew that this would only work if Hong Kong and China felt like
it, I can easily see them being sloppy. It's not like they are lacking excuses
to not extradite him. The crime he is accused of isn't really in their treaty,
he claimed political asylum (and we can't kick him out now because we don't
have a process to do so currently due to our previous court decision), he
claimed political asylum (and the US has a history of indefinite detainment and
torture for crimes like this so we decided to grant it), or even "We think
he did the right thing" (this would probably have to come from Hong Kong
not China's main government).
PS. I appreciate Ecuador's offer of foreign aid for human rights training to the
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