10/06/2013
Could Bradley Manning help Edward Snowden win political asylum?
p/pEdward Snowden, the now-famous leaker of top-secret NSA programs, told the Washington Post that he's seeking political asylum "from any countries that believe in free speech and oppose the victimization of global privacy." His case for asylum could be difficult to make, though, as a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/06/10/edward-snowden-could-strain-to-qualify-for-asylum-under-international-law/"it's not clear that he would even qualify for asylum as it's defined by international law/a. Despite what Snowden appears to think, asylum is not simply a matter of whether or not a foreign country likes you and shares your beliefs; it is a matter of national and international law, both of which can be highly formalized. But with a left-leaning political action committee a data-xslt="_http" href="https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/snowden?refcode=INF"already raising money/a for his legal defense and Snowden last spotted in Hong Kong, asylum could be his best shot./pa href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/could-bradley-manning-help-edward-snowden-win-political-asylum/2013/06/10/d5abe680-d206-11e2-9577-df9f1c3348f5_blog.html?wprss=rss_world"Read full article #62;#62;/aimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636708/s/2d1a4aae/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fblogpost%2Fpost%2Fcould-bradley-manning-help-edward-snowden-win-political-asylum%2F2013%2F06%2F10%2Fd5abe680-d206-11e2-9577-df9f1c3348f5_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Could+Bradley+Manning+help+Edward+Snowden+win+political+asylum%3F" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fblogpost%2Fpost%2Fcould-bradley-manning-help-edward-snowden-win-political-asylum%2F2013%2F06%2F10%2Fd5abe680-d206-11e2-9577-df9f1c3348f5_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Could+Bradley+Manning+help+Edward+Snowden+win+political+asylum%3F" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fblogpost%2Fpost%2Fcould-bradley-manning-help-edward-snowden-win-political-asylum%2F2013%2F06%2F10%2Fd5abe680-d206-11e2-9577-df9f1c3348f5_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Could+Bradley+Manning+help+Edward+Snowden+win+political+asylum%3F" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fblogpost%2Fpost%2Fcould-bradley-manning-help-edward-snowden-win-political-asylum%2F2013%2F06%2F10%2Fd5abe680-d206-11e2-9577-df9f1c3348f5_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Could+Bradley+Manning+help+Edward+Snowden+win+political+asylum%3F" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fblogpost%2Fpost%2Fcould-bradley-manning-help-edward-snowden-win-political-asylum%2F2013%2F06%2F10%2Fd5abe680-d206-11e2-9577-df9f1c3348f5_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Could+Bradley+Manning+help+Edward+Snowden+win+political+asylum%3F" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165666470278/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2d1a4aae/kg/367/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165666470278/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2d1a4aae/kg/367/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165666470278/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2d1a4aae/kg/367/a2t.img" border="0"/
