But I suppose the pathetic commies over in russia haven't discovered newegg yet.

in our country?

Snowden is bound to be at an embassy and the story will be he went there under diplomatic immunity, imo

I think it's the Venezuelan embassy, two people were seen exiting the airport before others and were picked up by a diplomatic vehicle sporting ecuadoran or venzuelan plates according to a Russian journalist.

I think they are on shakey ground obviously with that and the refugee document wasn't even signed so that was bogus.

The whole thing is a Wikileaks game facilitated by Putin who gains by creating a distraction from the trial of his enemies over ... civll rights issues in Russia, going on now.

I wonder how long Russia will let him stay there.

The phrase "too clever by half" comes to mind. About the only place they could stash him, aside from somewhere in Russia (in an embassy, or maybe as Gerard Depardieu's "computer guy&quot is in Cuba. Cuba, though, might not like that, as they inch towards normalization with USA as Fidel gets older and frailer.

Venezuela and Ecuador have to make a decision about their trade relations with the US. They make up only a small percentage of the US portfolio, but we make up a massive percentage of theirs. I'm betting that John Kerry has already told his counterparts in those nations that there will be serious consequences in the whole tariffs/trade theater if they try to harbor Runaway Ed.

If you see him, ask him how his Russian language lessons are going! He might need them...!

so they can curry favor with the left in Latam, and the rest of el mundo.

Correa figured he wasn't going to get the trade deal removed anyway, and then Sen. Menendez shot off his mouth threatening them .. add pride .. Snowden has a new home

Why would the left here in the USA have a problem with the left in Latin America?

because yes it's more than the left in Latin America

He also knows that if he turns his back on US trade with preferential tariffs, that there will be increased unemployment in his country. I think there's still some discussion going on--the fist waving and drama are all for the cameras.

One way it could be made to work for him is if China does some SERIOUS debt forgiveness (he owes them a bundle). I can't see them doing that (though it could happen)--they like having people over a barrel. They also like a bit of tension, the tug and yank of economic interests intersecting.

Someone has to step up and tell Correa "Hey dude, we'll buy your roses and broccoli and bananas and so forth," and they'd better do it on the same or similar terms as USA does, otherwise there will be adverse effects in Ecuador. For us, it's not a big deal--we can find other outlets for what Ecuador sells us. I will say they provide very good product, reliable, well packaged, nicely shipped, no e-coli or other recall problems, so we do benefit as well, but we aren't up against it the way they are.

If they "take" Snowden, they may well just shove him in the trunk and take him to the Moscow Embassy. Then he can compare notes with his 'pal' Julian (who keeps trying to steal his limelight) about who has the nicest room at the Hotel Ecuador!!!

The only way Cuba would do it, I agree, is if someone stepped up to the plate and replaced the cash that flows to their island by way of US people-to-people programs, the limited trade we do with them on a humanitarian basis, and the money sent by family members back to the island. That latter piece is problematic--people now are allowed to send money home to their family, and they wouldn't want to have to go back to the old "sneak it out through Canada/Mexico" routine of years past.

I wonder if Snowden has run out of underwear, yet, and has had to use the sink in the men's room to do his laundry? Such a glamorous life 'in transit' ... ugh !

1. have a ticket to transit zone airport.
2. have a ticket to somewhere from transit zone airport, for example Havana.
3. get off airplane at transit zone airport.
4. don't get on airplane to somewhere from transit zone airport.

Please keep this information to yourself. It is highly confidential.

He's not there. It's a small hotel and there's a ton of reporters watching all movement there.

They've warped the rules again and have him in an embassy where he can be more comfy imo

However, just as he precipitously decided to leave Hong Kong, once he got to Moscow he decided not to go on to Ecuador.

Possibly he thought that the Cubans would not guarantee safe passage. Possibly he thought that Ecuador would not grant asylum once he arrived.

Either he got cold feet, or possibly Moscow was his intended destination as a second choice after Beijing.

It's hard to tell who's using who in this drama. Greenwald, Assange, and Snowden each have their own interests. Not that the Wikileaks legal team are not representing Snowden. We haven't heard from Sarah Harrison, nor from Assange recently. And Greenwald and the Guardian seem to have been cut out of the action by the South China Morning Post some days ago.

My guess is that the transit zone is a convenience and that the plan from the outset, negotiated with the russians in advance was to go to moscow and stay there for "a while". We've shit on Russia since the collapse of the USSR. Payback is a bitch.

He was probably encouraged to believe this by Greenwald and Poitras. Recall also that he and his girlfriend made and earlier trip, and he could have scouted out sympathetic groups in Hong Kong at that time. These would tend to encourage him, particularly if they did not actually know who he was or the scope of what he would reveal.

When he found out that asylum in Hong Kong was unlikely, he began improvising with the help of Wikileaks. Since then, his decision making has deteriorated in the face of ever poorer options.

Because none of this makes any sense to me.

It really is the only thing that makes sense and is in line with the reportage.

We really have not heard from Assange or Harrison in a few days. So, inevitably in that vacuum people are beginning to make shit up. I presume we'll next read here that Snowden's getting his fingernails pulled out for his pass phrases while Putin himself Hoovers his laptops and thumb drives. I have heard nearly as much here.

I have no patience for wild speculations. It's okay to say I don't know.

Perhaps the lawyer saw the difference between receiving classified materials and distributing it...?

This is the whole piece from the below-cited link:

without a special visa.

You will note that the rates they quote are for 4-hr. stays.

along with about 500 other ones!

The following articles are all from the Voice of Russia, which might as well be called The Mouth of Putin...but whatever:

It has been confirmed that fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden had holed up at an airside capsule hotel at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, but has recently moved out, Russian media say.
“He [Snowden] spent several hours here, but he checked out long ago,” reporters were informed at the reception desk of Sheremetyevo’s Air Express Hotel in Terminal E.
According to the source with the hotel staff, a group of journalists settled down at this base hotel almost at the same time as Snowden did, but the whistleblower managed to avoid them.
Another informed source told Russia’s RIA-Novosti news agency Snowden still remains in the airport’s transit area.
Read more: http://english.ruvr.ru/news/2013_06_26/Snowden-moved-out-of-Sheremetyevo-airport-capsule-hotel-8480/

of them!

Lee Harvey Oswald defected, married, lived there for awhile, came home, and killed JFK.

There were a few others as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_defectors_to_the_Soviet_Union

kicked around, yet

Makes sense. That's probably where he's been hanging out.

Wouldn't take them very long to get him Transit Visa, when he was in 'limbo' in HK, probably, if ruskies wanted to do so.

about the price, and then didn't take the room.

Beyond the hotel and shops and lounges accessible to the public from the transit zone corridor, there are quite a lot of "behind the scenes" areas not available to the public: areas where security or pilots or flight crews or other workers might have lounges or perhaps even overnight accommodations

The Russians may have him stashed there. Or they might have spirited him out of the airport completely. Or maybe it's all part of a bigger game, and he never went to Russia