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struggle4progress

(118,039 posts)
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 08:39 PM Jun 2014

Edward Snowden rejects German plans for meeting in Moscow

In a letter to German lawmakers, Snowden's Berlin-based lawyer, Wolfgang Kaleck, dismissed their request for an informal meeting with the former intelligence official in Russia.

There was "no room or need for an oral, 'informal' meeting in Moscow," Kaleck wrote, adding that a hearing "in the desired form" is only possible in Germany ...

Opposition lawmakers have demanded that Snowden be allowed to come to Berlin and testify, but the German government has said doing so would hurt relations with the United States. It is also not known if such a move would jeopardize Snowden's immigration status in Russia, where his temporary asylum runs until the end of July.

Parliamentarians from the two main parties in Merkel's ruling coalition, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD), had wanted to hold an "informal discussion" with Snowden in Moscow in preparation for a formal hearing ...


http://www.dw.de/edward-snowden-rejects-german-plans-for-meeting-in-moscow/a-17725917

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Edward Snowden rejects German plans for meeting in Moscow (Original Post) struggle4progress Jun 2014 OP
I don't know where to go with this. randome Jun 2014 #1
Perhaps he won another year in Russia with his "question" to Putin Thinkingabout Jun 2014 #2
I continue to be amazed at how utterly inept... OilemFirchen Jun 2014 #3
He's right to reject a secret meeting with Merkel's government. Luminous Animal Jun 2014 #4
 

randome

(34,845 posts)
1. I don't know where to go with this.
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 09:00 PM
Jun 2014

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Everything is a satellite to some other thing.[/center][/font][hr]

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
2. Perhaps he won another year in Russia with his "question" to Putin
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 09:28 PM
Jun 2014

Time is getting close, wonder what will happen next.

OilemFirchen

(7,143 posts)
3. I continue to be amazed at how utterly inept...
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 09:55 PM
Jun 2014

Snowden's lawyers seem.

What does this mean?

... a hearing "in the desired form" is only possible in Germany ...

It sounds like he's suggesting that conditions in Russia wouldn't be accommodating. Is that actually the message he intends to send on behalf of his captive client?
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