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In reply to the discussion: BREAKING: Venezuelan President Maduro WILL GIVE political asylum to Snowden (updated) [View all]Catherina
(35,568 posts)200. Kentuck, you read my mind and several other peoples too (via pm)
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BREAKING: Venezuelan President Maduro WILL GIVE political asylum to Snowden (updated) [View all]
Catherina
Jul 2013
OP
I think they would be too. If Russia wants to be gone with him I think they would
hrmjustin
Jul 2013
#167
VZ needs to issue him a safe conduct pass, like Ecuador did to get him out of Hong Kong.
MADem
Jul 2013
#188
If they were doing it right, they'd need the legislature to vote on it, I would imagine.
MADem
Jul 2013
#275
You don't need to find a copy of the actual law--that's well sourced info in and of itself.
MADem
Jul 2013
#311
Wasn't there an issue with Snowden not having traveling papers, passport, etc.?
99th_Monkey
Jul 2013
#316
Cleita.... What if he's already in Venezuela? Just a desperate thought lol. n/t
Catherina
Jul 2013
#4
At this point with all this cloak and dagger stuff, anything could have happened.
Cleita
Jul 2013
#6
i think coup de grace "i mispelled it" makes more sense in the context of your post
arely staircase
Jul 2013
#88
I would pay to know how trolled US about Snowden's presence on Morales' plane. Whoever it was they
idwiyo
Jul 2013
#36
Oh, yeah, but I wonder if they had the imagination to think of it and then pull it off.
Cleita
Jul 2013
#116
I would put my money on Putin and FSB. I bet he is having good time laughing his arse off over
idwiyo
Jul 2013
#150
I think they've already gone after Spain's PM with some corruption accusations, or maybe it was
sabrina 1
Jul 2013
#222
Well this is interesting. The little neocon offering Morales coffee, What are his ties to Otto Reich
Catherina
Jul 2013
#280
Snowden's leaks are exposing the international 1%. Endangering their profits
Catherina
Jul 2013
#293
So maybe at this summit, there was a meeting in a back room with Putin, Maduro and
Cleita
Jul 2013
#171
And he still has a firm grip on security/intelligence services in Mutha Russia. nt
MADem
Jul 2013
#199
you guys are so smart..i leave for a few hours and you figure it out..lol, nt.
xiamiam
Jul 2013
#230
I just thought of something. What if the calls claiming he was on Morales' plane were a diversion?
sabrina 1
Jul 2013
#221
good point. think how bad it would be to live in a country so indebted to China.
piratefish08
Jul 2013
#250
We have options, they don't. China will not cut off their nose to spite their own face.
MADem
Jul 2013
#281
Saudi Arabia can no longer depend on oil revenue to handle the growing population
railsback
Jul 2013
#132
Not so much, now--we've diversified. All that fracking. But we do REFINE their oil.
MADem
Jul 2013
#198
i don't think either are likely; him making it there or us not buying any more of their oil if he
arely staircase
Jul 2013
#94
That would be a blockade which would be tantamount to a war. Do you really think that
totodeinhere
Jul 2013
#92
Fine. Let us stop buying oil form them and see the price of gas at the pump shoot up.
totodeinhere
Jul 2013
#64
Not really. Take away one of our major oil suppliers and see what happens. n/t
totodeinhere
Jul 2013
#118
They are not a big part of our oil picture at all, and their contribution gets smaller every year.
MADem
Jul 2013
#282
We get about 5.9% of our oil from them. That might not sound like much but the way oil markets
totodeinhere
Jul 2013
#306
We'd get more from Canada if we had the transshipment capability and refining capacity.
MADem
Jul 2013
#308
From Moscow? I think you need to find a different map-reading instructor. n/t
winter is coming
Jul 2013
#32
To reach them, he'd have to leave the transit lounge and formally enter Russia. n/t
winter is coming
Jul 2013
#41
I am sorry but I am ignorant on international law on this case. Has he not already entered Russia?
hrmjustin
Jul 2013
#43
My understanding is that the transit lounge is a legalistic limbo and that he's "not"
winter is coming
Jul 2013
#50
I am sure they can figure something out thast does not require them to go over US airspace.
hrmjustin
Jul 2013
#54
So he is sleeping in the airport then. I should have been paying more attention.
hrmjustin
Jul 2013
#71
Russia has already said that if he is transported in an embassy vehicle that vehicle would
totodeinhere
Jul 2013
#105
He had to return home and consult with other members of his government first. n/t
totodeinhere
Jul 2013
#111
The White House hadn't forced down the plane of a head of state at that time
MannyGoldstein
Jul 2013
#139
true, but then you would have the "I hate Snowden!" crowd lobbying to engage the Russian plane
quinnox
Jul 2013
#45
HooptieWagon, I want to know everything lol! When he gets there, if he's there already etc n/t
Catherina
Jul 2013
#131
"See, you know how to take the reservation, but you don't know how to HOLD the reservation..."
alcibiades_mystery
Jul 2013
#62
President of Venezuela yesterday: "Whoever picks a fight with Bolivia, picks a fight with Venezuela"
allin99
Jul 2013
#75
Bravo! Maybe Venezuela can give him citizenship and a passport like they attempted in Iceland.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jul 2013
#87
I don't think a valid passport will stop the U.S. from trying to nab him en route. n/t
winter is coming
Jul 2013
#93
I don't know. The sledehammer style has landed them in Der Shitstorm as the Germans call it.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jul 2013
#109
And there are probably some advisors claiming that the shitstorm couldn't get any worse,
winter is coming
Jul 2013
#115
Probably the same ones who advised him that it wouldn't occur at all.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jul 2013
#125
I think they will try to intercept him...there are probabely a few CIA agents staying in
HipChick
Jul 2013
#110
Are they wearing blond wigs? Will Putin release them after they're arrested?
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jul 2013
#144
Just when you thought surveillance state lovers couldn't sink any lower. PLONK n/t
Catherina
Jul 2013
#120
you honestly believe that this whole thing is simply a plot to make obama look bad?
frylock
Jul 2013
#229
I think the goal for some around here is to supress ANY discussion of PRISM,
NorthCarolina
Jul 2013
#317
No, I look at my experience in Cuba, there are many similarities and I experienced
flamingdem
Jul 2013
#244
Cuba: traditional 1960's vintage communist state. Venezuela: democratic socialists republic.
Warren Stupidity
Jul 2013
#290
The ignorant fantasies from the bigoted, close minded, conservative DUers above...
bvar22
Jul 2013
#274
Venezuela and Cuba 2 peas in a pod. Minit in cuba taps calls. You want authoritarian?
flamingdem
Jul 2013
#187
"All the bashers can suck my dick!" Is that what passes for discussion on DU now? nt
SunSeeker
Jul 2013
#314
There are times I love what my Goverment does, then they are times I love when other countries
Nanjing to Seoul
Jul 2013
#209
Still wont faze Snowden's cult following as he hops from one authoritarian country to the next...
Galraedia
Jul 2013
#234
Just updated the OP with a link to the immedate extradition request and the extradition treaty
Catherina
Jul 2013
#302