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Ecuador says letter of safe conduct for Snowden is unauthorized and invalid
- kristofferR 13y ago"She also threatened legal action against whoever had leaked the document." http://i.imgur.com/tF3GHPY.jpg http://i.imgur.com/tF3GHPY.jpg
- mpyne 13y agoYou've got to be kidding me.
- terhechte 13y agoI came here with the same thought. I wonder if the Washington post is to be trusted here, or if that was never said but inserted by the journalist to give even less credibility to ecuador.
- mpyne 13y agoYes, I'm positive that the same journalist publication that leaked news of PRISM in the first place is now working feverishly to discredit their own story.
- knowtheory 13y agoPlease note that this is an AP Wire story, and so, not actually written by the Washington Post. That said, lets do a quick analysis of the subject for GP. It doesn't matter to Snowden what the AP or WaPo thinks of his asylum documents. All he cares about is whether a) his passport will get him through the intermediary countries, and b) whether Ecuador will recognize his asylum document. He already believes a) or he wouldn't be flying through Europe (although that may have changed if the US has gotten its INTERPOL red notice right finally. If b) is in question, it would explain why he's still hanging out in the Moscow airport, and not headed on a more direct route for South America. There are of course many other reasons why Snowden would dally in Moscow, but whether the WaPo or AP thinks of his immigration status in Ecuador doesn't seem like one of them to me.
- sp332 13y agoThat actually makes sense, though. Fraud is an actual crime, and the action damaged the reputation of the Ecuadorian ministry. It's not like the leaker did some brave or noble thing.
- mpyne 13y agoSince when did we worry about whether the government was embarrassed when deciding whether a leak was brave/noble or not?
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- cobrausn 13y agoIf this is a fraudulent letter, then it isn't a leak - it's just fraud. It would be like me stealing some official letterhead and 'leaking' an official pardon for Timothy McVeigh (as a purely random example, please do not say I am comparing Snowden to the Oklahoma City bomber, and yes I'm aware he is dead). If the letter is real (or was a draft of a soon to be real letter), then it's a bit different.
- mpyne 13y agoHow can it be fraudulent when it wasn't signed or stamped? I certainly got the impression from her comments that it was upsetting that the draft/template was leaked ahead of time (without the go-ahead from the government) more than anything else. Was it leaked to the press with the statement that it was official, or did the press come to that conclusion on their own?
- cobrausn 13y agoAs I said in the last part, if this is just an early leak of a document in the works that will soon be official, it's a bit different than fraud. However, there is surely a difference between releasing templates for official documents during the middle of a tense diplomatic situation and releasing information about a (likely unconstitutional) spying operation that has been going on for years without the knowledge of the public.
- jpdoctor 13y ago> "She also threatened legal action against whoever had leaked the document." I posted elsewhere, but is more appropriate here: The document itself struck me as checking for leaks. (Misspelled "hight"? No stamp?)
- uvdiv 13y agoMisspelled "hight"? Occam's razor reminds you that this is a third-world bureaucracy where English is not the native language. Not every typo hides a spy thriller.
- scottshea 13y agoNext you'll tell me that DaVinci did not hide clues about Christianity in his work or something...
- quantumpotato_ 13y agoPlease explain how typos help check for leaks
- nexox 13y agoIf you release multiple copies of the document, each with a slight variation, then keep track of who got which version, you can (potentially) figure out who leaked the document.
- abstractbill 13y agoYou give a different version of the document to each person, with unique typos in each one. If the document gets leaked, you know who did it - the typos form a "signature". Sometimes a typo is just a typo though.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y agoEverybody involved gets a slightly different unique version of a document. It would be clumsy to do it with typos, better to change the justification.
- sp332 13y agoHey, the content of this page changed! I found the original: http://www.neurope.eu/news/wire/ecuador-says-letter-safe-conduct-snowden-real-unauthorized-and-invalid http://www.neurope.eu/news/wire/ecuador-says-letter-safe-con...