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Where should he have gone?
by nodata 13y ago
Where should he have gone?
- secfirstmd 13y agoMost likely Iceland, Sweden, or Germany. The first two because of strong whistle-blower and journalist protection laws. The third because the level of detail which was released about spying on Merkel would have made an extradition practically impossible.
- pdkl95 13y agohttp://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-parliament-divided-over-snowden-subpoena-in-nsa-investigation-a-964293.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-parliamen... Germany is still undecided on this matter today. While I (strongly) suspect Merkel would attempt to be decent about this, according to this article, even she has to play politics first: "His testimony, [Merkel] continues, 'will continue to deepen anti-American sentiment in Germany and elsewhere in Europe' ... Partly for that reason, Merkel decided early on not to grant Snowden asylum in Germany. Her fear of a clash with the US is just as great as her concern over a potentially divisive domestic political debate." And later: "[Extradition], though, is an impossibility from the perspective of Merkel's conservatives. 'Were Snowden to come to Germany,' says conservative domestic policy spokesman Stephan Mayer, 'then the government, in my opinion, would be required to accede to the legally unobjectionable extradition request from the US.' A final decision in this hypothetical could ultimately lie with the judiciary."