I am just trying to imagine Bolivia stopping a plane with our American President on it...

[kpete]

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A senior Bolivian diplomat said the Austrians had acted at the bidding of the United States, which has been trying to get its hands on Snowden since he revealed details of its secret surveillance programs last month.

"We're talking about the president on an official trip after an official summit being kidnapped," Bolivia's ambassador to the United Nations, Sacha Llorenti Soliz, told reporters in Geneva.

The Bolivian plane, which was taking Morales home from an energy conference in Moscow, was stranded at Vienna airport for several hours after Portugal and France refused to allow it to fly through their airspace.

The search found that Snowden was not onboard and the plane eventually left Vienna about noon on Wednesday.

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MORE:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/03/us-usa-security-snowden-idUSBRE9610C520130703?irpc=932

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UPDATE:
Ecuador says it found a hidden microphone at its London embassy
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/03/us-britain-ecuador-microphone-idUSBRE9620JS20130703

[warrior1]

1. It's sounding like the Bolivian Pres. made this up.

France and Spain said that they could fly over.

[Junkdrawer]

6. This appears to be the sequence of event:

1.) Deny overflight permission
2.) Austria allows emergency landing
3.) Austria inspects the plane
4.) Overflight permission granted
5.) Denial of overflight permission denied

[annabanana]

7. i thought LaMonde confirmed France's hold?

Early in the am?

[treestar]

2. That would be a planet where Bolivia

had been the country that kept up the nuclear defense during the cold War.

[kentuck]

3. Does Bolivia even have an air force??

I doubt that they could force down a kite?

[Myrina]

4. So much for 'not scrambling any jets' to stop Snowden, eh?

[chimpymustgo]

10. Indeed. My government scares me.

[MisterP]

18. it's almost like they telegraph what they're going to do in their denials...

"NDAA does NOT target Americans, you liberalonazis!"
"chained CPI is NOT a problem, you Maoist cicular-firing-squad purger purists!"
"we do NOT have a list of people we're going to machete, you subhuman cockroaches betraying the foundations of society!"
"true Dems support John Yoo and attack Cindy Sheehan"
"Nader caused 9/11"

[JaneyVee]

5. Bolivian Diplomat's just make stuff up without evidence? Like our conservatives.

[hrmjustin]

8. The more I look at this the bigger the outrage it looks to me.

I am all for the manhunt for Snowden being aggressive but there are things one should not do.

[malaise]

9. "We're talking about the president on an official trip after an official summit being kidnapped,"

We're also talking about the only indigenous President of a country in our hemisphere.
I want to jump off of this planet.

[chimpymustgo]

11. Important piece of information, Malaise. This is a very scary time.

[Junkdrawer]

12. The threadbare curtains are coming down....

Power is naked

[malaise]

13. Frightening indeed

and yes the emperor is naked

[Junkdrawer]

14. And the multinational nature of that power will become clear...

National Sovereignty, yes even US sovereignty, will be shown to be illusory. See also TPP.

[malaise]

16. All our constitutions have no meaning

All international is under threat - humanity will fight back - we always do.

[bobduca]

15. Hey that's appropriate.

The Emperor is body surfing... and so dreamy!

[global1]

17. Really - What Would Have Happened If The Bolivian Plane Proceeded And Ignored The Warnings Of....

Portugal and France? Would they have shot down the plane? I think not. No country would risk such an International incident.