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Hissyspit

(45,788 posts)
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 02:56 AM Jul 2013

Breaking: Alleged NSA Leaker Edward Snowden to Meet Human Rights Groups at Moscow Airport Today

Source: Reuters

@BreakingNews: Alleged NSA leaker Edward Snowden will meet human rights groups at Moscow Airport today, airport official says - @Reuters

Fugitive Snowden to meet with human rights groups: official

Fri Jul 12, 2013 3:01am EDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden will meet human rights groups on Friday at Moscow's Sheremteyevo Airport, where the fugitive contractor has been in the passenger transit area since he flew from Hong Kong.

"I can confirm that such a meeting will take place," said an airport spokeswoman, adding that it would take place in the second half of the day.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE96B07320130712

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Breaking: Alleged NSA Leaker Edward Snowden to Meet Human Rights Groups at Moscow Airport Today (Original Post) Hissyspit Jul 2013 OP
Finally! This is good news. I hope he gets an escorted trip to South America. Peace Patriot Jul 2013 #1
The US can't bust him there ... mallard Jul 2013 #3
LOL n/t FourScore Jul 2013 #19
+ You said my thoughts on it too. Waiting For Everyman Jul 2013 #4
Good, I hope he gets where he wants to go davidpdx Jul 2013 #2
"CT" delrem Jul 2013 #6
FYI crazy talk. n/t Cleita Jul 2013 #9
Try "Conspiracy Theories" as this is what DU is full of nowadays. nt BumRushDaShow Jul 2013 #10
When politicians do wrong, by necessity it's a "conspiracy"; delrem Jul 2013 #11
Wrong doing? gholtron Jul 2013 #21
Hey, look! It's a good old #13! PSPS Jul 2013 #31
Damn. Could I be labled no. 8? gholtron Jul 2013 #42
I think you should try harder to follow the discussion. nt delrem Jul 2013 #52
Excellent post. Deserves its own OP. "Conspiracy theory" is a tool to shut down debate. chimpymustgo Jul 2013 #26
Powers that be only allow their own story. That's axiom. delrem Jul 2013 #53
Try Con Trails ;) Lenomsky Jul 2013 #33
Seriously? That's why you hope he can go where he wants? FourScore Jul 2013 #20
No, not really davidpdx Jul 2013 #25
Thank You For Sharing - This May Be Good News cantbeserious Jul 2013 #5
Amnesty International rep says he'll meet Edward Snowden in Moscow Judi Lynn Jul 2013 #7
Good news. At least he hasn't been imprisoned or killed yet. Cleita Jul 2013 #8
I think you're talking too soon about the prison. gholtron Jul 2013 #23
k&r for exposure. n/t Laelth Jul 2013 #12
Here's the whole letter. US HRW probably not going to attend. Edit, now they will Catherina Jul 2013 #13
Thank you Catherina. I am praying for Snowden's safety and freedom. Then perhaps we can start chimpymustgo Jul 2013 #28
Are his Human Rights being violated? brooklynite Jul 2013 #14
He's in the transit zone at Sheremet'yevo. Igel Jul 2013 #40
Will they also be organizing a protest against Russia's new anti-gay laws? nt AllINeedIsCoffee Jul 2013 #15
Or any of the other laws that violate human rights and civil liberties? Igel Jul 2013 #41
Whatever country Snowden chooses to live in,shouldn't it have a better police state/human rts record Kolesar Jul 2013 #16
Our human rights record and treatment of prisoners is not stellar. totodeinhere Jul 2013 #17
We have become more like the Soviet Union than most are willing to admit. Cleita Jul 2013 #27
Now we're the Soviet Union? JoePhilly Jul 2013 #29
Showing signs of both actually if you study a little history and then let Cleita Jul 2013 #35
A guy I know from high school who is now a Tea Party nut JoePhilly Jul 2013 #36
Some Tea Partyers are upset about the same things some liberals are. Cleita Jul 2013 #37
They seem to also anticipate a great collapse, and then an uprising of those who JoePhilly Jul 2013 #38
And what will you do if they turn out to be right? Cleita Jul 2013 #39
I don't doubt their humanity, I doubt their sanity. JoePhilly Jul 2013 #44
Opposition to the surveillance state and human rights violations crosses the totodeinhere Jul 2013 #43
Bernie thinks we're the Soviet Union? JoePhilly Jul 2013 #45
Reread my comment. I did not say that he thinks we are the Soviet Union. What I said is that he totodeinhere Jul 2013 #46
And if you reread up this thread ... JoePhilly Jul 2013 #47
In a direct reply to me you said "Bernie thinks we're the Soviet Union?" totodeinhere Jul 2013 #49
I asked because that was the claim being discussed JoePhilly Jul 2013 #50
Then you should have asked it of the other poster, not me. It's as if you are expecting me to defend totodeinhere Jul 2013 #51
He's asking HR organizations for asylum now Progressive dog Jul 2013 #18
Oh get lost already. Come back face the music or get lost. Lil Missy Jul 2013 #22
Come back and get the Bradley Manning treatment? He would have to be insane to do that. n/t totodeinhere Jul 2013 #48
Possible video link and important note about HRW Catherina Jul 2013 #24
How exciting! The Snowden circus continues. DCBob Jul 2013 #30
I thought he was "just an ordinary transit passenger" brooklynite Jul 2013 #32
Live Feed ... Lenomsky Jul 2013 #34

Peace Patriot

(24,010 posts)
1. Finally! This is good news. I hope he gets an escorted trip to South America.
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 03:56 AM
Jul 2013

The U.S. position (or should I say dictate) is absurd--that nobody is permitted to fly this man to offered asylum. He is being hunted by the U.S. strictly for political purposes, to maintain an illegal and unethical and unconstitutional program of massive surveillance at home and abroad.

Obama should be the one granting him asylum--should give him immunity and invite him home to tell all. Instead, Obama is defending this Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld era abomination.

Will the U.S. offend and detain and insult the Red Cross, or Amnesty International, or whatever human rights group is in contact with Snowden, like it did President Evo Morales, igniting a firestorm of criticism in Latin America and multiple offers of asylum to Snowden from that region? The firestorm will only spread if the U.S. does this.

I hope the U.S. doesn't. I hope there has been an agreement to turn the matter over to a human rights group. It is a "no win" for Obama if he keeps this up. And why has he not condemned this invasive and massive spying program? He could change the course of history--our plummet into a corpo-fascist state. It doesn't seem at all likely that he will, but he should.

mallard

(569 posts)
3. The US can't bust him there ...
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 04:23 AM
Jul 2013

... but they can make their presence felt ... by sending a message with one of those supposedly helpful teams ... something to the effect of ...

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davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
2. Good, I hope he gets where he wants to go
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 04:17 AM
Jul 2013

So we can stop hearing all the CT about how he's going to be killed.

delrem

(9,688 posts)
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Jul 2013
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delrem

(9,688 posts)
11. When politicians do wrong, by necessity it's a "conspiracy";
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 06:23 AM
Jul 2013

unless it's like a "wide stance" or "weiner" fiasco.

It isn't reasonable to put a figurative tinfoil cap on everyone who suggests that politicians have conspired to commit transgressions, whatever kind.

Corporate crimes are 99.999% conspiracies.

Corporate and political crimes can merge, esp. in these most opportunistic times, creating an even more entwined conspiracy of interests.

gholtron

(376 posts)
21. Wrong doing?
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 08:14 AM
Jul 2013
This guy STOLE computers with Top Secret information and fled to a Communist country. He is the one making conspiracies with his false allegations of law breaking. No wonder Wikileaks's lawyers don't want anything to do with him. I'm sure the H.R.Gs will feel the same way when they look at what he has. I'm glad he is in his Russian prison and I hope he rots there too.

PSPS

(13,614 posts)
31. Hey, look! It's a good old #13!
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 09:22 AM
Jul 2013

The Apologist's Hit Parade:

1. This is nothing new
2. I have nothing to hide
3. What are you, a freeper?
4. But Obama is better than Christie/Romney/Bush/Hitler
5. Greenwald/Flaherty/Gillum/Apuzzo/Braun is a hack
6. We have red light cameras, so this is no big deal
7. Corporations have my data anyway
8. At least Obama is trying
9. This is just the media trying to take Obama down
10. It's a misunderstanding/you are confused
11. You're a racist
12. Nobody cares about this anyway / "unfounded fears"
13. I don't like Snowden, therefore we must disregard all of this
14. Other countries do it

chimpymustgo

(12,774 posts)
26. Excellent post. Deserves its own OP. "Conspiracy theory" is a tool to shut down debate.
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 08:50 AM
Jul 2013

Accept the "official story" - no matter how ridiculous, or be labeled a "crazy."
Dare to raise a doubt - you're labeled a crazy.
Don't believe your lying eyes...

The powers that be refuse to be challenged or questioned, and their minions are vicious enforcers.

delrem

(9,688 posts)
53. Powers that be only allow their own story. That's axiom.
Sat Jul 13, 2013, 02:16 AM
Jul 2013

Their story, of course, is "true". Others are "conspiracy theories".
Ranked somewhat below the more interesting theories of Archimedes Plutonium.

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
25. No, not really
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 08:45 AM
Jul 2013

But if ends the conspiracy theory talk then so be it. There is little I can do either way.

Judi Lynn

(160,630 posts)
7. Amnesty International rep says he'll meet Edward Snowden in Moscow
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 05:50 AM
Jul 2013

July 12, 2013, 4:38 AM
Amnesty International rep says he'll meet Edward Snowden in Moscow

A Russian official of Amnesty International confirmed that he planned to meet Friday with Edward Snowden, the leaker of U.S. National Security Agency secrets.

Sergei Nikitin, head of the rights organization's Russia office, told CBS News' Svetlana Berdnikova he would attend the meeting Friday, but he declined to say where it would take place.

Snowden is believed to have been stuck in the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo international airport since June 23 as he negotiates for asylum in another country.

Russian news agencies reported that Snowden had called on several human rights organizations, lawyers and Russian officials to meet with him Friday at the airport.

More:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57593434/amnesty-international-rep-says-hell-meet-edward-snowden-in-moscow/

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
8. Good news. At least he hasn't been imprisoned or killed yet.
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 05:52 AM
Jul 2013

I don't know if those groups can do much against the almighty USA.

gholtron

(376 posts)
23. I think you're talking too soon about the prison.
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 08:20 AM
Jul 2013

He's not getting out of that airport holding area any time soon.

Catherina

(35,568 posts)
13. Here's the whole letter. US HRW probably not going to attend. Edit, now they will
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 07:09 AM
Jul 2013


...

Representatives of the US-based international organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) are unlikely to attend the proposed meeting with former CIA employee Edward Snowden in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport.

"I have not yet made a final decision, but I think that I am not going to be able make it to the meeting," deputy head of the HRW Moscow office Tatyana Lokshina said.

Lokshina also made it clear that other HRW members would not be present at the meeting if she decided not to attend it.

"We think that Snowden has reasons to seek asylum," she said.

...

- I am not going to go. I am busy and I can't go there today. That's all I can say.

...

http://english.ruvr.ru/news/2013_07_12/Snowdens-letter-to-human-rights-activists-made-public-3751/

Her twitter page says she's going now





Edit: Explanation:

Senior researcher on Russia of the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch Tatiana Lokshinahas said to the Russian News Service that the invitation sent on behalf of Edward Snowden was probably not genuine.

"I can't confirm that it is true. Perhaps, it's a fake. There are many rumors and media’s madness around this case. I’ve posted the text of the invitation on my Facebook so that people could look and make conclusions. It seems to me that it was rather awkwardly worded stylistically. This document has caused my mistrust. But maybe it is true. I will go to Sheremetyevo and find out", she said.

http://english.ruvr.ru/news/2013_07_12/Human-Rights-Watch-doubt-the-authenticity-of-Snowden-s-invitation-4185/

This is just bizarre:


The Voice of Russia ?@VoiceofRussia 14m

To show HRW does care about the situation,they send a representative but she won’t ask any questions - VoR's @PChernitsa_VR to #VoRradio

chimpymustgo

(12,774 posts)
28. Thank you Catherina. I am praying for Snowden's safety and freedom. Then perhaps we can start
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 08:53 AM
Jul 2013

talking about our OWN rights being violated.

Igel

(35,359 posts)
40. He's in the transit zone at Sheremet'yevo.
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 10:54 AM
Jul 2013

Just being on an Aeroflot jet or at Sheremet'yevo counts as a human rights violation.

The transit zone?

Upthread they were saying Snowden might be imprisoned if he left. That's rather like being transferred between prisons, if you ask me.

Igel

(35,359 posts)
41. Or any of the other laws that violate human rights and civil liberties?
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 10:58 AM
Jul 2013

Probably not. There are many.

They get to pick and choose which ones will get their heads bashed in, their offices closed, their families persecutied, and get them sentenced to prison.

If it's a line, first-come/first-served, then gay rights won't be on the list for many a decade. Somewhere after free expression, minority rights, political rights, freedom of religion, freedom of movement, and some other pesky "freedoms".

Kolesar

(31,182 posts)
16. Whatever country Snowden chooses to live in,shouldn't it have a better police state/human rts record
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 07:31 AM
Jul 2013

... than us? Or,u know,what was the pt?
--Bill Maher

totodeinhere

(13,059 posts)
17. Our human rights record and treatment of prisoners is not stellar.
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 07:35 AM
Jul 2013

Ask Bradley Manning. Plus we have one of the highest incarceration rates in the world and we disproportionately imprison people of color.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
27. We have become more like the Soviet Union than most are willing to admit.
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 08:53 AM
Jul 2013

Ask any old timer like myself, who lived through the cold war, and who vilified the Soviet Union for human rights violations. What is being done here after the Bush era is no different.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
35. Showing signs of both actually if you study a little history and then let
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 09:41 AM
Jul 2013

the scales fall from your eyes and look at what's really going on.

JoePhilly

(27,787 posts)
36. A guy I know from high school who is now a Tea Party nut
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 09:44 AM
Jul 2013

tells me the same thing.

Apparently, we are now the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and Mao's China ... all rolled into one.

Next up ... death panels and FEMA work camps.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
37. Some Tea Partyers are upset about the same things some liberals are.
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 09:46 AM
Jul 2013

It's the approach to solutions that's different.

JoePhilly

(27,787 posts)
38. They seem to also anticipate a great collapse, and then an uprising of those who
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 09:50 AM
Jul 2013

"truly" follow the Constitution.

What differs, from what I can tell, is their version of the "Utopia" that follows.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
39. And what will you do if they turn out to be right?
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 09:53 AM
Jul 2013

There is no sin in speculating about possible future outcomes in times of turmoil. It's only human and think what you want about Tea Party members, at the end of the day they are human.

JoePhilly

(27,787 posts)
44. I don't doubt their humanity, I doubt their sanity.
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 12:25 PM
Jul 2013

And they are not "speculating about possible future outcomes", they are actively working to bring them about.

totodeinhere

(13,059 posts)
43. Opposition to the surveillance state and human rights violations crosses the
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 12:18 PM
Jul 2013

political spectrum. Yes it seems to be a bit odd to have Glenn Beck and Bernie Sanders agreeing about something, but there you have it. Then you have the establishments of both major political parties defending the same programs. Polls also show divided opinions among rank and file members of both parties over the same topic.

totodeinhere

(13,059 posts)
46. Reread my comment. I did not say that he thinks we are the Soviet Union. What I said is that he
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 12:45 PM
Jul 2013

opposes the surveillance state. He has called for the repeal of the Patriot Act and voted against it.

Bernie Sanders On NSA Leak Revelations: We're Heading For An 'Orwellian Future'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/11/bernie-sanders-orwellian-future_n_3419173.html

I'm with Bernie on this.

JoePhilly

(27,787 posts)
47. And if you reread up this thread ...
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 12:53 PM
Jul 2013

You will see that I was responding to one who, like the Tea Party nut jobs, is claiming that we are now the Soviet Union.

totodeinhere

(13,059 posts)
49. In a direct reply to me you said "Bernie thinks we're the Soviet Union?"
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 01:04 PM
Jul 2013

I was correct to remind you that I did not say that we are the Soviet Union. Another poster said that, not me. Surely you can't hold me responsible for what someone else said in a reply to me.

JoePhilly

(27,787 posts)
50. I asked because that was the claim being discussed
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 01:13 PM
Jul 2013

in the thread above.

I did not say that there were not other, less insane, points of agreement that could be found.

totodeinhere

(13,059 posts)
51. Then you should have asked it of the other poster, not me. It's as if you are expecting me to defend
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 01:19 PM
Jul 2013

what someone else said without even knowing if I agree with it or not.

Progressive dog

(6,918 posts)
18. He's asking HR organizations for asylum now
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 07:52 AM
Jul 2013

or maybe he just wants to cry on their shoulders. Poor picked on and abused Eddie.

Catherina

(35,568 posts)
24. Possible video link and important note about HRW
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 08:42 AM
Jul 2013
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1155606982001/

Human rights lawyer Renata Avila says the UN High Commissioner for Refugees should be visiting Snowden along with Human Rights Watch today, since the UNHCR has "the mandate to facilitate his travels".

She adds that Venezuela has a "sour relationship" with HRW and she hopes that the meeting will not jeopardise Snowden's chances of gaining asylum there.

Avila says that the most important aspect of the Snowden case is the fact that "asylum is a human right. There is a set of BINDING rules for all states to accept, without exception."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/12/edward-snowden-to-meet-amnesty-and-human-rights-watch-at-moscow-airport-live-coverag#block-51dff774e4b019f8d7037abf


The same goes for Transparency International

brooklynite

(94,737 posts)
32. I thought he was "just an ordinary transit passenger"
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 09:26 AM
Jul 2013

Most of them don't organize press conferences when they travel

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