Why Does Snowden's List Not Include Arg?

[EdRooney]

(This is more of a technical question, with the assumption that it will degenerate into the usual baexpats bickering.)

http://wikileaks.org...its-asylum.html

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has applied for asylum in countries such as Germany and India that have horrid records on collaborating with US extraordinary rendition programmes. Yet other countries with governments that have given the cold shoulder to US demands in the past, such as Iran, Zimbabwe, Uruguay and Argentina, and others, are not on his list. Do any of you wonderful individuals know if this is because of loopholes in extradition treaties here that would make it unfavourable to him? Or perhaps for other political reasons? He's got a very capable legal team with the Wikileaks lawyers, so I imagine they know something I don't about where his best chances would be.

 

[Jaredberryman]

(This is more of a technical question, with the assumption that it will degenerate into the usual baexpats bickering.)

http://wikileaks.org...its-asylum.html

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has applied for asylum in countries such as Germany and India that have horrid records on collaborating with US extraordinary rendition programmes. Yet other countries with governments that have given the cold shoulder to US demands in the past, such as Iran, Zimbabwe, Uruguay and Argentina, and others, are not on his list. Do any of you wonderful individuals know if this is because of loopholes in extradition treaties here that would make it unfavourable to him? Or perhaps for other political reasons? He's got a very capable legal team with the Wikileaks lawyers, so I imagine they know something I don't about where his best chances would be.

Me, I think he's in Bolivia right about now.

 

[germano]

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has applied for asylum in countries such as Germany and India that have horrid records on collaborating with US extraordinary rendition programmes.

Germany could not extradite if the person to be extradited could face capital punishment - which would be the case with Snowden and the US. Maybe that was the rationale behind applying in Germany ...