Kathy Lally, Anthony Faiola and Karen DeYoung (Washington Post) report Kerry objecting to Russia declaring that they have no legal authority to expel Snowden:
“It is a very serious question for all of us in all our relationships,” Kerry said. “There is no small irony here,” Kerry added, posing the hypothetical question of whether Snowden sought refuge in China and Russia “because they’re such powerful bastions of Internet freedom.”
That line might carry some weight if the administration John Kerry works for had any respect for the press. But after the scandal of secretly seizing the AP records, after the scandal of targeted Fox News' reporter James Rosen, there's no higher ground for the White House to scramble to. In addition, there's the White House's prosecution of whistle blowers -- a record achievement for Barack Obama. But mainly there's the fact that Barack did nothing to improve US and Russian relations and now he wants a favor from the Russian government? After nearly five years of hectoring it in public?
Since no space flights have been launched recently, it's safe to assume that Ed Snowden is somewhere on the earth. Where exactly, no one is sure.
Matt Berman (National Journal) offers, "If the Edward Snowden saga is a Michael Bay movie that we are all just living in, on Sunday morning it would have passed over the believability abyss. That's when Snowden, the NSA leaker turned America's Most Wanted poster-boy, took a plane out of Hong Kong, en route to Russia, where he landed around 9:15 a.m. EST. Snowden is reportedly headed from there to Havana, Cuba on Monday. Originally, it looked like he was going from there to Caracas, Venezuela. Now, it appears he's off to Ecuador."
Is he on a flight to Cuba? Reuters says no.
Hong Kong's Standard probably gets its right when they point out that he appears to have given the press the slip. And maybe that was the whole point?
A magician doesn't disappear by saying, "Look right here and you'll see how I pull off this trick." He or she misdirects and redirects.
Meanwhile things are getting really crazy including with the press. Toby Harnden (Times of London) has a question for David Gregory who has apparently found another administration to enlist with:
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I was jailed by Mugabe's Zimbabwe for "practicing journalism". Is David Gregory saying Obama's America should do the same to
@ggreenwald?
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Toby Harnden
Glenn Greenwald has been covering the spying story for the Guardian. He broke the story of the phone records (the equivalent of toll slips -- and though the US government insists that the records really aren't important, those were very important documents to the government when Marilyn Monroe died and they seized all the toll slips -- records of her final calls). The Washington Post has been covering it from the start as well and they broke the PRISM aspect (which is where the US government spies on the entire world).
I'm having huge problems with my mobil hot spot this morning so I'm tossing this up there now while it will hopefully make it up. There's much more being reported on this story and much more worth covering. But that'll be it for now.
Title references Laura Nyro's "Once It Was Alright Now (Farmer Joe)."
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