Demanding leakers: US doesn't do extradition either(theguardian.com)

26 pointsby bostikvor 13 Jahren5 comments

Demanding leakers: US doesn't do extradition either

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/07/obama-putin-extradition-snowden

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Greenwald seems to be the only journalist in the mainstream really doing his job. The consecutive US governments' continuous sheltering of fallen dictators, successful terrorists (and I'm not talking about the one terrorizing Pakistanis, Yemenis, Sudanis, and others with drones, he obviously deserves and gets shelter in the noblest of houses) is hardly news, but it's also hardly known, so it should be news. Thanks Snowden for providing Greenwald an opportunity to bring it into the limelight.

ojbyrnevor 13 Jahren

A link on that story (in "Other Matters) leads to a video where "James Risen, national security reporter for the New York Times" seems to be doing a pretty good job too.

http://pressthink.org/2013/08/the-toobin-principle/

agylvor 13 Jahren

Even 29 years after Bhopal disaster responsible for 1000s of deaths, India has failed to extradite Warren Anderson (prime accused in the case). US repeatedly turned down the request for extradition for want of "evidentiary links".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Anderson_(American_busin... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

mcvvor 13 Jahren

The US government seems to think the entire world is basically the American Empire. Everybody can handle their local issues as they see fit, but they can't make any demands of the US, no matter how reasonable, and they have to obey any demands from the US, no matter how unreasonable. Only the US, its interests, and (to some extend) its voters count.

The US is Rome while we're Gaul. We're fine as long as we accept their supremacy.

Qantouriscvor 13 Jahren

Thank you for informing me of this information. Now the US looks even more like a bully.