Asylum? Edward Snowden's Letters from Russia

"The NSA surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden has said US officials are waging a campaign to prevent him from taking up asylum offers as he called a meeting in Moscow airport with human rights groups."*

We know that Edward Snowden is in Russia (not on the plane of Bolivian President, Evo Morales), and now we have letters from him. He's asking for asylum in Russia until he can get to Venezuela, but will this work? Will the U.S. break international law again to apprehend him? Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz, John Iadarola, and Alyona Minkovski (Host, Huffpost Live) discuss.

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[cobraglatiator]

why do they always cut it short? why can't we see their full discussion?.... : (

[AholeAtheist]

Exactly what I was thinking. From Vladivostok fly south/south-east around US airspace in Hawaii and then east across to Venezuela. Only problem then is, how close do you really wanna get to Okinawa?

[profsat]

Hey, thanks a lot for the info.Do you know if shes a new one at TYT?

[ricardoperedo]

I have been wanting that for a long, long time.

[IdeallyInsane]

Did some of your previous accounts get banned? I just want to know.

[AAWT]

I'd like to point out that Moralez/crew weren't forced to land in Vienna (if the US government had forced the Bolivian president's plane to land in a specific country, they definitely wouldn't have chosen Austria as it is neutral - like Switzerland), but conducted an emergency landing there as there was a technical issue (w/ the indicator of the plane's fuel reserve) and they were in Austrian airspace when they were informed that FRA/ESP/POR/ITA were refusing entry/refueling (unlike Austria).

[MojoGuitarPlayer]

I totally dig Alyona being on this program. She always has a great perspective. (Same with Ben)

[jackscarb]

Good to see Alyona again i miss her show on RT. Cenk, try and make her a regular.

[DeagleBeagle]

What do you mean? He was charged with many espionage-related charges.

[timongarretson]

Ah, Alyona, it's been a long time since watching your show on RT. Good to see ya on TYT. Hope to see you here often. :-)

[TheMarcogoon]

Great to see alyona hope to see more of her on tyt loved her show on rt

[ric]

What the people have to learn in this world is to see the things from different angles.

[Margzay]

He hasn't been charged with anything officially.

[TheyCallMeGawd]

Only 2 Tu-95's With a converted passenger compartment, the rest can only seat the crew.

[cne]

You're posting to someone whose username is @prejudice5 so is it any surprise the say what they do?

[Melpheoser]

The point for a presidential plane A to warn country authority B is just for the country B to protect the president of country A not to prevent him flying above you country B !
Has everyone forgot the basic of international laws now ?

[whymee]

do you ever stop to think then forget to start again?

[Shern]

Alyona, cute AND valuable analysis. We keep you.

[RdClZn]

There are planes that can do Moscow-La Paz, not the ones in service on commercial airlines, though... And not the ones in service for the Bolivian Air Force.

[hhautala]

Yeah didnt that newspaper get in some trouble from much smaller criticism.