Ecuador prepares to accept Snowden, offers U.S. 23 mil for human rights education
(Reuters) – Ecuador said on Thursday it was waiving preferential rights under a U.S. trade agreement to demonstrate its principled approach to the asylum request of former American spy agency contractor Edward Snowden.
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Officials in Quito added that the U.S. fugitive’s case had still not been processed because he had not reached any of its diplomatic premises.
In a deliberately cheeky touch from the leftist government of President Rafael Correa, Ecuador also offered a multimillion donation for human rights training in the United States.
Ecuador gives up, unilaterally and irrevocably the said customs benefits…What’s more, Ecuador offers the United States economic aid of $23 million annually, similar to what we received with the trade benefits, with the intention of providing education about human rights…”
Ecuador does not accept pressure or threats from anyone, nor does it trade with principles or submit them to mercantile interests, however important those may be.
Snowden, 30, is believed to be at Moscow’s international airport.
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Our new EXCLUSIVE: NSA collected US email records in bulk for more than two years under Obama http://t.co/Wno2EyArs7
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 27, 2013
We also published – for the first time – the top secret draft report of NSA’s IG on post-9/11 domestic surveillance http://t.co/kX2sSnuyve
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 27, 2013
Review of top-secret NSA documents suggests that the surveillance agency still collects and sifts through large quantities of Americans’ online data – despite the Obama administration’s insistence that the program that began under Bush ended in 2011.
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