The Saga Continues

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has confirmed that his country received an official request for asylum from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden on Monday.

“We received a letter requesting asylum” from Snowden, revealed Maduro, during a press conference prior to a meeting with Panama’s president, Ricardo Martinelli.

Snowden "will need to decide when he will fly here," added the Venezuelan head of state.

  RT

An, how?

Who, in their right mind, could take comfort, anymore, in the protections supposedly afforded by the U.S. Constitution at this point, especially in a case like Snowden's? Remember also, we currently have 86 prisoners in Guantanamo Bay who have long ago been cleared by the government for release. Nonetheless, they have been held for years without charges, never will be charged, and yet they still sit as prisoners with little hope for release despite the fact that President Obama could, within his legal rights, send all of them home tomorrow.

That's the world that Snowden, understandably, may wish to avoid.

  Brad Friedan

And is well-advised to do so. But we can expect all manner of demonizing now that he’s looking to Venezuela.

 I just remembered when Hugo Chavez said publicly to an international audience after George W. Bush had made a speech and left that the smell of sulfur was still in the air. I think we can all tell the difference between a demon and a target.

But I guess we’re okay with living in PRISM.