And Edward Snowden "will not be sent out of Russia," according to Aleksei K. Pushkov, chairman of the foreign affairs committee in Russia’s lower house of Parliamen, quoted in the NYT, which also calls him "Mr. Pushkin."
Pushkov... Pushkin... what's the difference?
(Alexander Pushkin was one of the great Russian writers.)
January 24, 2014
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"Althouse," "Cathouse." What's the difference?
The typo has been corrected. But I don't see any acknowledgement of the error.
There should be an equivalent to Godwin's Law for invoking Big Brother (especially from a Russian). George Orkin is spinning in his grave.
OT but it appears to be a sad day over at the Drudge Report.
Pushkov/Pushkin close enough for government press work.
They'll stand by Snowden when Push comes to shkov.
Obama offers US security assistance to Putin as Olympic terror fears mount
One can't help wondering, but it would be unfortunate if assistance to any extent was contingent upon a Snowden deal.
The house of Parliamen? Is that some subset of the Masons?
"Are we not men? We are Parlia?"
Actually, I took a Russian referencing Big Brother as of a piece with Putin saying he hadn't heard of Snowden until he read it in the newspapers.
The Russians can spot the birthing of Marxist Police State from 10,000 miles off. The deluded Harvard intellectuals only see their own greatness.
Here is an indisputable fact. Obama has the means for spying and populace control that Stalin and Beria couldn't dream of.
Obama has the means for spying and populace control that Stalin and Beria couldn't dream of.
Granted, Obama could have and should have reined in the NSA. But this mess is the creation of the Bush administration. To blame it on Obama exclusively is disingenuous at best.
Freder - I did not blame it on Obama, and the roots of it pre-date Bush. I simply stated the fact that Obama currently possesses such means. If there is a president after Obama, then that president will possess the means.
Crimso,
Nah, there already is a word for what Russia's leadership is feeling: envy
Not a huge deal, the typo. At least they can change it seamlessly. If I say in a comment "Ray Kohn" instead of "Roy Kohn", 'tis probably not worth the intrusiveness of creating a new, correcting post. When I make such mistakes, it greatly annoys me, though.
I want him back here as a free american. He's a throwback to a time when Americans were soft spoken and did the right thing. It makes me homesick for something that may well have been gone before I was born. I wish there were more like him. America has gotten so stupid, crass, and Kardashian. It's embarrassing.
The fact that a large part of the establishment would reject him shows how deeply we've fallen into the funhouse mirror world. The NSA guys venting about how they want to kill him ... if the structure they think they are protecting allows such depraved possibilities, they are not protecting anything of value, but rather their own stupid, self-made internal war games.
Snowden upheld the higher promise - to protect the Constitution, and those that kept the lower promise, to protect the secrets of the NSA, not only did not uphold it, but did their best to shatter it in a million pieces.
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