He went there because it was the safest route to Equador, once in Moscow, the US state department cancelled his passport. And just to drive home the dire situa

He went there because it was the safest route to Equador, once in Moscow, the US state department cancelled his passport. And just to drive home the dire situation he is in, when rumours were spread of Snowden being aboard the Bolivian president's plane headed for latin america, the US pressured european countries to deny airspace and have it directed to Austria where it was searched.