Boston Herald - Boston Herald: Biden asks Ecuador president to nix Snowden asylum

Changes are afoot at Blogtrottr! By popular request, we're bringing in paid plans with some cool new features (and more on the way). You can read all about it in our blog post.

Boston Herald - Boston Herald

Biden asks Ecuador president to nix Snowden asylum Jun 29th 2013, 20:18, by By Associated Press, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden has asked Ecuador to turn down an asylum request from National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, the country's president said Saturday. Rafael Correa, in a weekly television address, offered little sympathy for the Obama administration's view that Snowden is a criminal who should be swiftly returned to the U.S. At the same time, he vowed to seek American input on any asylum request and suggested Snowden will have to answer for his actions. Media files: In this June 14, 2013 file photo, a photographer takes picture of President Barack Obama and Edward Snowden held by pro-democractic legislator Gary Fan Kwok-wai during a news conference in Hong Kong. Whisked out of a luxury Hong Kong hotel, vanishing into a mysterious wing of the Moscow airport, Edward Snowden's continent-jumping, hide-and-seek game seems like the stuff of a pulp thriller -- a desperate man's drama played out before a worldwide audience trying to decide if he's a hero or a villain. But the search for the former National Security Agency contractor who spilled government secrets has become something of a distracting sideshow, some say, overshadowing at least for now the important debate over the government's power to seize the phone and Internet records of millions of Americans to help wage the war on terrorism. (image/jpeg)

You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed, or manage all your subscriptions

Tweet