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President Obama said he should not have to speak personally with the leaders of Russia and China regarding self-professed NSA leaker Edward Snowden, and said he was not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker during a press conference in Senegal on Thursday.
The president was on the first leg of a trip to Africa when he struck the seemingly dismissive tone regarding the former defense contractor who claimed to have leaked details of two top-secret government data-gathering programs before initiating an international manhunt that has grown to involve the governments of China, Ecuador, and Russia.
Obama said that the revelations first published in British newspaper The Guardian and The Washington Post and the ensuing search for Snowden, who has been charged with theft of government property and two offenses of espionage statutes have the makings of a big-screen spy caper, but that he would not engage in wheeling and dealing and trading and a whole host of other issues, simply to get a guy extradited so he can face the justice system here in the United States.
More at: http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/27/19166043-obama-not-scrambling-jets-to-get-nsa-leaker-snowden?lite
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)How much more evidence do the diehard Snowden supporters need that he is not to be trusted and has nothing to support his wild claims?
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PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)How would we ever verify the accuracy of such wild claims?!
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)...arbitrary servers at will, seeing a list of every NSA asset, copying all Internet traffic into a database.... the list goes on.
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)chill the fuck out.
HardTimes99
(2,049 posts)reference "his" leaves me unsure whether your a racist or an authoritarian thug
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)More
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)to leave Snowden alone.
1-Old-Man
(2,667 posts)Hi there, I'm the President and although I could I do not intend to send armed military aircraft to the ex-Soviet Union, the second most heavily armed country on earth and a long time enemy, but don't forget, if I wanted to I could.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Good...now we better go back to revelations.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)LMAO does the Senator understand ALBA nations want US drug warriors out?