Nicaraguan Embassy in Russia Receives Snowden’s Asylum Bid

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Source: Ria Novosti

MOSCOW, July 8 (RIA Novosti) – Nicaragua’s embassy in Moscow has received an official asylum request from fugitive former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, an embassy spokesperson confirmed to RIA Novosti on Monday.

A Nicaraguan radio station on July 6 published what it claims is Snowden’s asylum request, although Nicaraguan officials have not publicly confirmed that the document is real ...

Most have been rejected or countries have told Snowden that he would have to file the application while on their soil.

On Friday, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega was reported as saying that, “if circumstances permit,” his country would “receive Snowden with pleasure” ...


Read more: http://en.ria.ru/russia/20130708/182127177/Nicaraguan-Embassy-in-Russia-Receives-Snowdens-Asylum-Bid.html

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1. This circus just keeps getting better!

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2. All the countries that Reagan and Bushes fucked over

are enjoying the schadenfreude.

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3. Yep. Though the screw-overs have a longer history than you suggest