29.10.2013 - 18:44 [ Techdirt ]

If All These Countries Are So Outraged By Revelations Of US Spying On Them, Why Aren‘t They Offering Snowden Asylum?

Glenn Greenwald makes some really good points in a Guardian column (one of his last) discussing the reactions to the latest revelations about the NSA surveillance on citizens and (mainly) top politicians in other countries. The key one being, if these countries are really so outraged by these revelations, shouldn‘t they be offering Ed Snowden asylum, since they appear to be admitting that these revelations are important?