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Russia Extends Edward Snowden's Asylum To 2020, To Offer Citizenship Next Year (cnn.com)
Whistleblower and former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has been allowed to remain in Russia for another three years and will next year qualify to apply for Russian citizenship. From a report on CNN: Edward Snowden's leave to remain in Russia has been extended until 2020, Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has confirmed to CNN. Snowden, a former US National Security Agency contractor, sought asylum in Russia in June 2013 after leaking volumes of information on American intelligence and surveillance operations to the media. On Tuesday, Zakharova announced an extension of a "couple of years" in a Facebook post that criticized former CIA acting director Michael Morell for an opinion piece he wrote suggesting that Russian President Vladimir Putin should consider returning Snowden to the United States as "the perfect inauguration gift" to President-elect Donald Trump. Snowden settled in Moscow after initially traveling to Hong Kong following his 2013 public disclosure of classified information. The Russian government granted him asylum soon after. In August 2014, Snowden received a three-year extension to his leave to remain in Russia. That extension was due to expire this year.
Posting AC because I've moderated.
President Obama did not pardon Manning. He commuted her sentence. Commuting leaves the crime and punishment intact but reduces the time spent in jail.
A pardon essentially wipes the crime from the person's record. This CNN article explains more clearly the difference between the two acts:
A presidential commutation reduces the sentence being served but it does not change the fact of conviction, whereas a pardon forgives a certain criminal offense.
If he had left his inheritance alone, he would be twice as wealthy as he claims to be now.
You're still repeating this crap? Fred Trump didn't die until 1999. The "analysis" you're talking about assumes Donald got Fred's 1999 fortune in the 1970s. Unless Trump also has a time machine, that doesn't work out.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
Well, no. Snowden didn't (necessarily) talk to Russia before leaving Hong Kong. When the USA revoked his passport they made a mistake in the spelling of his name, and Hong Kong authorities (or the guys who checks passports in the airport) didn't have any choice but to let him board the plane. A revocation of a passport works not by its intent, but by the paper it's written on. Make a spelling mistake, and poof, there goes your guy.
When Snowden got to Moscow, the USA had redone the revocation, this time correctly, which is why he was unable to leave for another country. And even if he had, that flight had probably been unlawfully intercepted by the USA (see: Bolivias presidential plane forced to land in EU).
You have a low enough UID that your account is something like 20 years old. Please, whatever your political position, try to look at both sides before spewing "truthy" nonsense.
(here's a source by the way: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/23/edward-snowden-gchq )
(captcha "classify" -- hah!)
From: http://www.investopedia.com/updates/donald-trump-rich/
The Trump Family Fortune
Trump's father, Frederick Christ "Fred" Trump, made a sizable fortune by building and selling housing for American soldiers and their families in World War II. It was at his father's real estate company that Donald got his start in business. In 1971, he took control of his father's apartment rental company, Elizabeth Trump & Son Co., and later on, he renamed it The Trump Organization. Trump stuck mostly with real estate investments during this period, particularly condo associations, huge apartment buildings and Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-backed housing, all in the New York metropolitan area.
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