Snowden still loose; US looks foolish
Back in 2008, I was told that if I voted for Obama, the US would be more respected on the world stage than we had been in the previous eight years of the Bush administration, so this is probably all my fault, because I didn’t vote for Obama, so sorry. But anyway, Hong Kong could have stopped Ed Snowden, the NSA-contracted leaker from leaving and they didn’t.
The New York Times said that China made the call to let Snowden leave;
From China’s point of view, analysts said, the departure of Mr. Snowden solved two concerns: how to prevent Beijing’s relationship with the United States from being ensnared in a long legal wrangle in Hong Kong over Mr. Snowden, and how to deal with a Chinese public that widely regards the American computer expert as a hero.
Yeah, we’re so respected in the world that Snowden is a hero for pissing on our policies.
Now Snowden is “somewhere in Russia”. You’d think that the Russians would be concerned about an illegal alien wandering around loose, especially an illegal alien who is wanted by all of their ally’s law enforcement entities, but apparently not. Even Politico admits that the boobs in the White House are powerless;
The spotlight-grabbing international travel — just as Obama seeks to focus attention on his Tuesday climate change speech and a weeklong trip to Africa that begins Wednesday — is sure to keep Snowden’s own story atop the headlines, highlighting the White House’s relative powerlessness to bring him back to face charges.
Reuters calls Russia “defiant”. Doesn’t sound too much like an ally or that Russia is grateful for Obama scrapping the missile shield for Eastern Europe. Or even his most recent blather about reducing nuclear weapons.
So Snowden is trying to get into Ecuador which is run by one of Hugo Chavez’ coke huffing buddies, Rafael Correa. it seems to me that if we were respected in the world, the answer would have been a resounding and immediate “no”. Especially from some third world shit hole who needs the US now that Chavez is gone.
So, like I said, I apologize for not voting for Obama and making such a mess of our foreign policy. I’ll know better next time.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Foreign Policy
This reminds me of a scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off –
Ed Rooney: Last thing I need at this point in my career is fifteen hundred Ferris Bueller disciples running around these halls. He jeopardizes my ability to effectivley govern this student body.
Grace: Well, makes you look like an ass is what he does, Ed
Sounds like he’s checking in with all his handlers, if you ask me. And he’s trying to get to Assange’s neck of the woods, isn’t he?
Okay, so Mother Russia parades him around for a bit then? Either ship him out to Syberia or Cuba.
Smart power!
Someone needs to hit the reset button.
I suppose it depends on how you look at it. He’s bouncing around all over the place, perhaps because nobody yet has been fool enough to grant him shelter.
To me, he looks like a hot potato.
If I were a Chinese CI agent, I’d have Snowden and his laptops in “protection” from the US Government while I grilled him and downloaded all of the information off the laptops. In the meantime, to keep the heat off from the US Government, I’d have him fictitiously booked on a flight to one semi-friendly country, with a follow-on fictitious booking to another not so friendly country, making it look like he is in the wind. BTW, we know that he wasn’t on the flight to Cuba, and has anyone seen him in Moscow yet?
Boy you crazy conservatives just don’t get it….because Barack Obama has done so much for the reputation of the US abroad these other nations won’t let us embarrass ourselves by extraditing Snowden…if Snowden is tried in the US it will be a great big embarrassment because the rest of the world will find out just how a low level contract employee was able to steal all kinds of documents.
Our new friends in China and Russia are trying to help Obama save face by pretending to be unable to do anything at all that will help us capture Snowden…..
Remember this simple pro-tip, if things are going poorly under a republican administration it’s because the neo nazi republicans are an inept, corrupt group of criminals….but, if things are going poorly under a democratic administration it’s because of the previous republicans who are no longer in power, or because our allies are helping us….if all of this is too confusing for your conservative minds, head down to the nearest democratic re-education center and we’ll be glad to correct your thinking for you.
Maybe the NSA should have been tapping his phones. Wait……
@2 PintoNag, “Sounds like he’s checking in with all his handlers, if you ask me.” Exactly. Dude’s a slimeball spy with a brilliant exit strategy, nothing more.
Russia can keep him. Let him live in a 55 sq foot apartment with steam heat and no satellite TV. Oh, and that thing making the racket over there? That’s called a Kelvinator. You have the deluxe model,Snowden. It comes with one metal ice tray and enough freezer capacity for three wax boxes of BirdsEye frozen peas. What’s that? A dish what? Nyet. Here’s your towel. And other thing. The bathroom is unheated and you get to share it with sixteen other folks on your floor.Enjoy, comrade!
Barack Hussein Cartman says, “Respect my authori-tie.”
Best story of the day on the subject:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57590753/reporters-chasing-snowden-stranded-on-cuba-bound-plane/
@12. That’s a scream! Love the shot of the empty seat.
Somehow I believe that when they made the movie “Being There” with Peter Sellers, someone had bath house Barry in mind.
Hey, maybe he’s being sent in as a UC agent on our behalf (Double Agent)? Maybe this Secret Squirrel shit has some basis in fact? Maybe he……..nah, he’s probably just the traitorous, shitbird asshole he looks like. Damn!
Anyone wanna bet that B. Hussein 0bama & Co. will fail on this like they do everything else?
sucker bet. How about something less sure, like sunrise in the east?
Do you think that Vlad (who I believe is a James Bond villain) is going to let this slimy little shit out of his hands? If he landed in Russia, some of the now former KGB were waiting for him. Snowden is either regretting his decision to go to Russia or he is really living it up in Moscow. Either way I doubt we will see him again. If there weren’t any pics of him getting off a plane in Moscow there won’t be…and no one will ever remember seeing him.
So, what’s in the computers that Obama’s people gave Snowden before his sight-seeing tour of America’s Enemies?
I’m not buying the party line that Snowden just happened to plug a thumb drive into a secure network and copied files, and NOTHING happened.
“Catch Me If You Can”, with Leonardo DeCaprio and Tom Hanks, and starring a new playah, Ed Snowdin as the NSA whistleblower.
Yup, sounds like they don’t respect us….and for good reasons probably. When our “allies” refuse to help us out, it’s time to start thinking about what we’re doing wrong.
@21. What we did wrong happened back in early November of
20122008.Daily Mail says he planned to get the job with Booz/Allen to specifically get access to the data!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2347691/Edward-Snowden-reveals-took-job-Booz-Allen-gather-information-NSA-surveillance-programs.html
@ UpNorth: Honest question – how do you think things like this would’ve played out under a McCain or Romney administration?
@23. His friends all knew it, yet the NSA couldn’t find out that that was his intent, all along? But, we’re supposed to trust them?
@#22, Let’s not pretend that electing Obama as our President is the root cause of all of our problems. It’s just one thing in a long list of mistakes….and I’m not sure it would be any different if McCain or Romney had become President instead of Obama.
Where’s Waldo? Or should I say El Waldo? Looks like he may be trading his Kelvinator for a 57 Chevy and all the ice cream he can eat. Don’t get me wrong. I really don’t care. Whoever takes him can keep him. I heard him speak in a clip on TV today. It was an interview with some commie news program or something. Anyway, he sounds like a thoroughly indoctrinated and well schooled typical lefty. No wonder the pinks are treating him like a hero. He is also way too articul;ate to have been some low-level nothing. We’re either being lied to about his actual position as a ‘contractor’ or he was a moley mole.
@26. No, the root cause of our problems is an electorate that put that idiot in office and gave him the knuckleheads to ensure he succeeds at transforming America.
One way the Prez could regain some of his lost mojo would be to wait for Snowden to light somewhere and then put a B-2 over his location carrying a J-Dam with the traitors name on it. Drop the first one on the perp and another on the Presidential Palace on egress. Make it plain that pissing off a super power is not conductive peace or prosperity in your piss ant country.
@29: I second that, but instead of a B-2, let’s reenact the SEAL Team 6 killing of UBL.
Extra points if he gets an all female team of special operators to do it. That’ll scare the crap outta Assange.
Well, when Snowden’s flight from Russia to Cuba arrived, he was nowhere to be found.
How about that?
@31 EX-PH2, Maybe that he’s smarter than he looks? Nah….!
@18–JPJ–there was a saying back in the Soviet Union days that all spies came home and kissed lead, either a medal or a bullet.
Makes ya wonder which one Snowden’s kissing?
Oh, and wasn’t this dipshit a Paulbot? Seems to me I heard that from somewhere…
@30 Randy B, At 66 years old I don’t have time to wait for that to happen. The myth of a female spec ops team is a pipe dream of the Progs. A seal team will do just fine. We don’t need to scare Snowden, we need to snatch him or, failing that, seriously kill him. Take his body and erase his name from the record.
The Black Sea is deep and cold. Hides a lot of secrets, like neolithic villages drowned when the Straits of Bosporus cracked open and let the Med into a freshwater lake.
$5 says Snowden is still on the ground in Mother Russia, having a wonderful visit and conversation with FSB. In the meantime, the news crews that hopped the flight to Cuba thinking they’d get a chance to interview Snowden are probably sitting on the ground at Havanna cussing. Mother Russia is smiling down on them…..
@36. Yep. Scratch the 57 Chevy. It’s back to the Kelvinator and community bathroom for Waldo. Best line of the week. The United States Secretary of State, John F. Kerry, has called upon Russia to, I kid you not, “Do the right thing.” In the annals (anals?) of world diplomacy, that has got to come in second in stupid only to Neville Chamberlain’s declaration.
Well, AC, considering that sKerry is at least as commie as is Vlad, sounds like he just told him to, “Carry on, Comrade. Gotcha covered at this end.”
POTUS reminds me of the idiot battalion commander I had who kept yammering about the “second wave” while the “first wave” was kicking our collective asses at NTC.
Current intel so far has Edward Snowden in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, in the transit zone and hasn’t formally crossed over in to Russia. Also, Russia Federal Migration Service(FMS) and law enforcement agencies say they do not see any grounds to cause extradition of Snowden. So, in a nutshell Snowden could stay on Russian turf indefinitely unless he crosses “formally” over in to Russia. And even then, Russia will not extradite him unless Interpol and US law enforcement are searching for him. Key word there, Interpol.