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In reply to the discussion: CIA rendition jet was waiting in Europe to take Snowden in 2013 [View all]gratuitous
(82,849 posts)116. I'll give the report credence
After all, we also forced the landing of a plane carrying the Bolivian president on the possibility (not the likelihood, not the verified fact, but the possibility) that Ed Snowden was on board.
We used to be against that kind of heavy-handed totalitarian police state bullying.
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Reminds me more and more of what went on during WWII that only "them" over there
RKP5637
Jun 2014
#51
RevMoon and now his family DO own over a 1million acres right above the Guarani Aquifer. BFEE can
blm
Jun 2014
#55
Are you effing kidding? Hard to believe any DU Dem could possibly claim they didn't know this.
blm
Jun 2014
#125
I replied to YOUR claim Bushes in Paraguay is a myth, and to the absurdity of your pretense
blm
Jun 2014
#147
Here's a little ditty about the Bush Paraguay Aquifer. More to it than most believe:
misterhighwasted
Jun 2014
#119
Interesting that someone thinks it important to pretend there is nothing to see here.
blm
Jun 2014
#144
Oh, I really have no idea where the plane would have gone, had Snowden been collected.
Maedhros
Jun 2014
#160
I agree - it's hypothetical. But also completely within the realm of possibility.
Maedhros
Jun 2014
#165
And why he avoided all allied air space.His human rights lawyers in Hong Kong gave him good advice.
Luminous Animal
Jun 2014
#3
How legit are the sources? According to the article, they are anonymous "enthusiasts"
pnwmom
Jun 2014
#124
quick! some soulless flack put up a map of the road between Domodedovo and Sheremetyevo!
MisterP
Jun 2014
#6
If Snowden had hitched a ride with Evo Morales this would have been the connecting flight.
pa28
Jun 2014
#8
given how many cunning minds there are in the NSA & armed services, it's amazing he slipped through
tomm2thumbs
Jun 2014
#10
You're right. Obama had to have known. No way was a rendition plane sent out
riderinthestorm
Jun 2014
#13
I don't understand your question. It doesn't seem strange to me that the DoJ has aircraft,
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
#90
I'll try really hard to remember that suggestion whenever I reply to you
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
#133
Hey I am new here ..rules state I need to respond before I can post.That's what I did !
ROCKYSXXX
Jun 2014
#23
Didn't even really distract - just looks ridiculous. And signed up just to look ridiculous. Pity.
djean111
Jun 2014
#30
He is a very smart guy who had to listen to his conscience and blow the whistle!
Dustlawyer
Jun 2014
#19
Based on the historical reasons for that aircrafts travels, those trips are equally worrisome.
Gravitycollapse
Jun 2014
#66
Obama: "I'm not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker,"
woo me with science
Jun 2014
#28
The jet only had to fly to where ever the plane Snowden was on was forced down.
HooptieWagon
Jun 2014
#97
this is the kind of story that doesn't require an open mind....it requires evidence...
VanillaRhapsody
Jun 2014
#91
NOOOO its CT unless YOU can prove this...you want me to prove a negative...
VanillaRhapsody
Jun 2014
#129
Same way we got our 'allies' to hold up the plane of the president of a sovereign nation
sabrina 1
Jun 2014
#38
The author doesn't even seem to want to try to prove his assertion. It's pathetic.
stevenleser
Jun 2014
#47
The article offers no proof of its assertions at all. Odd that people just buy it.
stevenleser
Jun 2014
#45
LMAO. Well done. Everyone in this thread who has bought this should be embarrassed.
stevenleser
Jun 2014
#65
If one chooses not to believe James Clapper because he lied, then how does one believe
Thinkingabout
Jun 2014
#53
You wanted a list of lies and a partial list was provided and since there seems
Thinkingabout
Jun 2014
#78
Of course, your obfuscation neglects the significance of that specific aircraft.
Gravitycollapse
Jun 2014
#64
hmm. I'm wondering if N977GA will continue to be used as the tail number since it has changed once
2banon
Jun 2014
#57
And It Appears That Most, If Not All, Of That Info Came From Witnesses At Foreign Airports...
WillyT
Jun 2014
#71
This was reported at the time last summer. I see no new confirming information.
Hissyspit
Jun 2014
#84
You people will believe anything....and it just proves you are not what you say you are....
VanillaRhapsody
Jun 2014
#92
Mostly i don't endear things to me for more than a few years unless they mean something.
nolabels
Jun 2014
#105
i dont care how long someone has been posting....there is a timeline to
VanillaRhapsody
Jun 2014
#110
still CT unless you have evidence...and someone with morals would understand that....
VanillaRhapsody
Jun 2014
#139
ALL of this issue is speculation. Including those who say this could never happen or
djean111
Jun 2014
#152