Snowden granted asylum
From
Reuters:
Fugitive Snowden granted a year's asylum in Russia, leaves airport
Fugitive former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden slipped quietly out of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on Thursday after being granted a year's asylum in Russia, ending more than five weeks in limbo in the transit area.
Russia's decision to help the American, and ignore U.S. requests to send him home to face trial for leaking details of government surveillance programs, is sure to anger Washington and increase doubts that a summit between presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin will go ahead in Moscow in September.
Heh -- if we had a real President and a real Secretary of State, Moscow would have handed him over in the first week.
Time to get some adults in the room...
Posted by DaveH at August 1, 2013 10:51 AM