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Snowden Granted One-Year Asylum In Russia
New submitter kc9jud writes "The BBC is reporting that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in Russia. According to his lawyer, Snowden has received the necessary papers to leave the transit zone at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow, and the airport press office is reporting that Snowden left the airport at 14:00 local time (10:00 GMT). A tweet from Wikileaks indicates that Snowden has been granted temporary asylum and may stay in the Russian Federation for up to one year."
Reader Cenan adds links to coverage at CNN, and other readers have pointed out versions of the story at Reuters and CBS.
Just what do you think would happen to a Russian citizen who leaked a ton bucket load of FSB secrets? I can tell you what - they'd be dead within a week. Last time I looked the USA didn't assasinate opposition politicians (look up Sergei Yushenkov amongst others), do show trials of citizens who pissed off putin and send them off for 20 years hard labour and poison citizens who've sort asylum in other countries eg Alexander Litvinenko. And you think the USA looks WORSE than a country that does this simply because they quite rightly want to arrest a traitor??
You "poor oppressed liberal us" stick-it-to-the-man types need to really need to wake up and never mind smell the coffee, inject the bloody stuff and get a grasp of reality!
There is no really left party in the US as far as I can see. The two largest are very right wing (democrats) end extremist right wing (republicans). I don't know how left the American socialist party really is, here the party who calls itself social democrats and even the combination of green and former communists have also embraced the economic aspects of neoliberalism.