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Snowden given safepass to Ecuador [pdf]
- Svip 13y agoMarital status single? I guess for legal reasons, he left his partner behind. 'Baby, I know we need to talk, but I am currently on the run from the American government.'
- lisper 13y agoHe left his girlfriend behind. He's not married and never has been.
- Svip 13y agoTrue. I had forgotten the exact status, still, I was merely using it as a pretext for my terrible joke.
- jhaaps 13y agoQuite often marital status is simply used to indicate if the person in question is married or not. As far as I know that wasn't the case for Snowden.
- Svip 13y agoI wonder if it would have complicated the whole thing if he had been.
- malcolmmcc 13y agoHuh? He wasn't married before. But yeah, he left his girlfriend to keep her safe. Apparently she knew absolutely nothing until he blew the whistle.
- rlivsey 13y agoI'd assume that single in this sense means "not married", as opposed to "not in a relationship at all". Wikipedia backs this up [1] but I'm not familiar with Ecuadorian legal nomenclature! [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marital_status http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marital_status
- alex_doom 13y agoMarried to his ex-job maybe
- Amadou 13y agoMethinks you've spent too much time on facebook. In the dead tree world we don't usually have an "It's Complicated" option for marital status.
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- tezmc 13y agoIf this document is genuine, it's a little ironic that they forgot to include his middle name.
- Svip 13y agoWell, it was done by the Ecuadorian consul in London, so maybe he did not have all the facts.
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- chaz 13y agoFrom the WSJ: Late Wednesday, Univision Networks posted images of what it said was a "safe pass" for temporary travel that had been issued to Mr. Snowden [...] But according to a senior official in Ecuador's foreign ministry on Wednesday, Mr. Snowden had no such pass. "He does not have any documents issued by the government of Ecuador, such as a passport or a refugee identification," said Galo Galarza, a senior ministry official. He didn't provide additional details. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324328204578569270162405156.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732432820457856...
- eatitraw 13y agoAny explanation to such strange thing? Is it fake document? I wonder why there is no photo, no signature or stamps. Or is it just ecuador playing safe?
- jpdoctor 13y ago> Any explanation to such strange thing? One possibility is that the Ecuador embassy was checking for leaks.
- uvdiv 13y agoYet, Wikileaks is claiming the opposite: "WikiLeaks, which is assisting Mr. Snowden, has said that Ecuador issued him special travel papers and that it is his ultimate destination." http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/world/snowden.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/world/snowden.html
- stack0v3erfl0w 13y agoStrange that the URL for that article says June 28th!
- JonnieCache 13y agoAnd so we enter the wilderness of mirrors...
- denzil_correa 13y agoEcuador denies giving Snowden a travel document: report "That's not true. There is no passport, no document that has been given (to Snowden) by any Ecuadorean consulate," Galo Galarza said in comments posted on the website of Ecuador's Teleamazonas, a private television station. http://news.yahoo.com/ecuador-denies-giving-snowden-travel-document-report-211115581.html http://news.yahoo.com/ecuador-denies-giving-snowden-travel-d...
- gerhardi 13y agoI think there is a possibility of a trick here - the document is not given to Snowden, but he somehow already actually is in Ecuador and Ecuador's officials have this document and he has been granted passage. This way Aeroflot's statement that Snowden has not been booked for any flights during next 4 days is correct, as he has already left.
- Uchikoma 13y agoOT: Looking at the US polls, the smearing worked nicely.
- shin_lao 13y agoI can't see a stamp or a signature, it's therefore invalid AFAIK. The absence of middle name is also strange (if Mr. Snowden has one). Anyone with access to a printer within an Ecuador embassy can do that, but without the stamp and the signature the value is zero.
- werid 13y agoindeed, the reason Hong Kong gave for not extraditing him, was that USA didn't specify what the J. middle initial stood for.
- iaskwhy 13y agoMy name has an "E" right in the middle. It's just a conjunction but the first time I went to the US, the security guard in charge of checking the passports didn't like it, he kept asking me what was the meaning of that letter: "Is it Edward? It must be something like that."
- ericleung 13y agoThat, along with the misspelling of height (spelled hight) in the document, makes me believe that this is not a valid document.
- stack0v3erfl0w 13y agoAnd the symbol for metre is "m" not "mt"
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- smackfu 13y agoHaving seen many Spanish language immigration forms, bad English translations are not surprising to me at all.
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- pawelwentpawel 13y agoOne thing puzzles me - why this document has been issued in London, not Ecuador?
- codeulike 13y agoAssange printed it from the Ecuadorian embassy in London while everyone else had gone to lunch?
- panacea 13y agoOK, I know jokes aren't appreciated on HN, but this comment is comedic art.
- davidw 13y agoJokes are ok, they just have to be unique and funny - like this one. Clever doesn't hurt either. Stupid memes or lame, tired, or mean jokes are not ok.
- weego 13y agoIt's always good to have an official ruling. God forbid someone goes overboard.
- antoko 13y agoExactly! Couldn't agree more, humor is definitely one place we need strict guidelines, otherwise how we all know what's funny and acceptable and what isn't?
- davidw 13y agoI'm just telling you what I've observed over the years here and dispelling the notion that it's frowned on entirely. If you want to start reddit-style memes, go ahead, have fun.
- macmac 13y agoThe missed the "J" again...