Eric Holder to Russia: US won't torture or kill Snowden

[tsai3904]

The U.S. wants Russia to deport Snowden. American officials want him returned to the U.S. for prosecution. Holder's letter, which was released Friday, addresses some "press reports and prior conversations between our governments" about issues involving Snowden's status. The attorney general writes that:

Snowden "is able to travel. Despite the revocation of his passport on June 22, 2013, Mr. Snowden remains a U.S. citizen. He is eligible for a limited validity passport good for direct return to the United States. The United States is willing to immediately issue such a passport to Mr. Snowden."

Claims that Snowden "would be tortured and would face the death penalty" if he is sent to the U.S. "are entirely without merit."

On the death penalty, "the charges he faces do not carry that possibility."

"Mr. Snowden will not be tortured. Torture is unlawful in the United States."

"We believe these assurances eliminate these asserted grounds for Mr. Snowden's claim that he should be treated as a refugee or granted asylum, temporary or otherwise."

More:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-26/holder-russia-trust-us-we-wont-kill-or-torture-snowden

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

One who has targeted and spied on reporters/journalists.

Turnkey wiretapping and spying on anyone that is oppose to the current regime occupying government buildings

A international gun runner...

Accomplice to murdering a border guard...

A Kill List accomplice...

Hiding the courts UNCONSTITUTIONAL brief on NSA spying...

Shops around unwarranted warrants and surveillance, until he finds a collaborating bench judge to rubber-stamp his "agenda"...

A person that allows the IRS to discriminate and economically/politically target Americans

A person who committed perjury to Congress...


Heir Holder's word is worth NOTHING

 

[Lucille]

Claims that Snowden "would be tortured and would face the death penalty" if he is sent to the U.S. "are entirely without merit."
[...]
"Mr. Snowden will not be tortured. Torture is unlawful in the United States."

Tell that to Bradley Manning.

 

[thoughtomator]

"Mr. Snowden will not be tortured. Torture is unlawful in the United States."

this must have been followed by huge laughs from the crowd

 

[Christian Liberty]

Tell that to Bradley Manning.

I can't hear you over all this freedom.

 

[wgadget]

Tell that to Michael Hastings.

 

[evilfunnystuff]

Just enhanced interogation right?

 

[Carlybee]

No he will just get thrown in Gitmo until Hell freezes over

 

[Carlybee]

Who would have ever thought anyone would have to seek asylum in Russia?

 

[Root]

No he will just get thrown in Gitmo until Hell freezes over

Obombya said he is going to close Gitmo. There's no way he would send Snowden there.

 

[Lucille]

Who would have ever thought anyone would have to seek asylum in Russia?

It's pretty amazing and ironic. Terrible PR for the "Land of the Free." The US must be the laughing stock of the world.

Role Reversal: How the US Became the USSR — Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/201...ow-the-us-became-the-ussr-paul-craig-roberts/

The communists had a Julian Assange and an Edward Snowden of their own. His name was Cardinal Jozef Mindszenty, the leader of the Hungarian Catholic Church.

Mindszenty opposed tyranny. For his efforts he was imprisoned by the Nazis. Communists also regarded him as an undesirable, and he was tortured and given a life sentence in 1949.

Freed by the short-lived Hungarian Revolution in 1956, Mindszenty reached the American Embassy in Budapest and was granted political asylum by Washington. However, the communists would not give him the free passage that asylum presumes, and Mindszenty lived in the US Embassy for 15 years, 79% of his remaining life.

In the 21st century roles have reversed. Today it is Washington that is enamored of tyranny. On Washington’s orders, the UK will not permit Julian Assange free passage to Ecuador, where he has been granted asylum. Like Cardinal Mindszenty, Assange is stuck in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London.

Washington will not permit its European vassal states to allow overflights of airliners carrying Edward Snowden to any of the countries that have offered Snowden asylum. Snowden is stuck in the Moscow airport.

In Washington politicians of both parties demand that Snowden be captured and executed. Politicians demand that Russia be punished for not violating international law, seizing Snowden, and turning him over to Washington to be tortured and executed, despite the fact that Washington has no extradition treaty with Russia.

Snowden did United States citizens a great service. He told us that despite constitutional prohibition, Washington had implemented a universal spy system intercepting every communication of every American and much of the rest of the world. Special facilities are built in which to store these communications.

In other words, Snowden did what Americans are supposed to do–disclose government crimes against the Constitution and against citizens. Without a free press there is nothing but the government’s lies. In order to protect its lies from exposure, Washington intends to exterminate all truth tellers.

The Obama Regime is the most oppressive regime ever in its prosecution of protected whistleblowers. Whistleblowers are protected by law, but the Obama Regime insists that whistleblowers are not really whistleblowers. Instead, the Obama Regime defines whistleblowers as spies, traitors, and foreign agents. Congress, the media, and the faux judiciary echo the executive branch propaganda that whistleblowers are a threat to America. It is not the government that is violating and raping the US Constitution that is a threat. It is the whistleblowers who inform us of the rape who are the threat.

The Obama Regime has destroyed press freedom. A lackey federal appeals court has ruled that NY Times reporter James Risen must testify in the trial of a CIA officer charged with providing Risen with information about CIA plots against Iran. The ruling of this fascist court destroys confidentiality and is intended to end all leaks of the government’s crimes to media.

What Americans have learned in the 21st century is that the US government lies about everything and breaks every law. Without whistleblowers, Americans will remain in the dark as “their” government enserfs them, destroying every liberty, and impoverishes them with endless wars for Washington’s and Wall Street’s hegemony.

Snowden harmed no one except the liars and traitors in the US government. Contrast Washington’s animosity against Snowden with the pardon that Bush gave to Dick Cheney aide, Libby, who took the fall for his boss for blowing the cover, a felony, on a covert CIA operative, the spouse of a former government official who exposed the Bush/Cheney/neocon lies about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

Whatever serves the tiny clique that rules america is legal; whatever exposes the criminals is illegal.

That’s all there is to it.

 

[juleswin]

Remember when this admin said the no fly zone in Libya was about protecting civilians? Until they changed that to regime change. If he wants to return home. he should do it for his own reason and not for promises made by the lying administration.

No torture? yea right

 

[Cleaner44]

How twisted is it that things have gotten to the point that our government has to assure people that they would torture and kill citizens like some sick serial killer.

The movie would be called Indecent Exposure.

 

[AFPVet]

Congress never should've let that idiot walk out of the hearing without handcuffs on. If any of us purguered ourselves and committed other federal offenses, we would not have been walking out of there free. Congress had full authority to charge him right there on the spot. There are so many special prosecutors that could've been appointed outside of the DOJ... any attorney can be a special prosecutor.

 

[Carlybee]

Obombya said he is going to close Gitmo. There's no way he would send Snowden there.

He said that before he was elected. Where are they going to house all their CIA-Al Queda assets they dont want to blabber?

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

Someone Knows the truth and got it on national TV

It's pretty amazing and ironic. Terrible PR for the "Land of the Free." The US must be the laughing stock of the world.

Role Reversal: How the US Became the USSR — Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/201...ow-the-us-became-the-ussr-paul-craig-roberts/

 

[Philhelm]

Who would have ever thought anyone would have to seek asylum in Russia?

Edward Snowden, for one.

 

[trey4sports]

 

[The Northbreather]

"America does not engage in torture, we prefer rendition, much different."

 

[VIDEODROME]

Mr. Snowden will face a fair trial and due process. He will not be tortured or killed.