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Who expected anything different? Any country he potentially can go to will be asked not to give him asylum.
by sigzero 13y ago
Who expected anything different? Any country he potentially can go to will be asked not to give him asylum.
- fixxer 13y agoDo you believe the safe passage papers were given without Correa's consent, as he claims? I don't.
- mpyne 13y agoIt wouldn't really surprise me too much. It's not like President Obama would approve each and every asylum request centrally from the White House, so the London consul may have assumed a safe pass would be acceptable and then Quito had to negate it because they weren't ready to go that route. After all Snowden managed to leave the Hong Kong airport somehow, presumably the HK authorities (not to mention the airline) would have wanted to see some documentation of permission to travel? Edit: On the other hand, maybe you're right. This ABC News article seems to say that Univision has confirmed that the safe pass had been generated under the direction of Pres. Correa. http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/ecuador-issues-denials-snowdens-safe-pass-linked-nations/story?id=19526121 http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/ecuador-issues-denials-s... and only after Univision got wind of it was it disavowed. Still a mystery is why they bothered to disavow the safe pass at all. Perhaps the problems with Assange?