The Obama administration has been controversy in the past few weeks came to power after the introduction of responsible Edward Snowden sweep spyware. Now, the government must prove that it can effectively power.
With the 30-year-old lead to global hide and seek game is the world's only superpower, the U.S. government officials faced the question of whether they have been botched to Hong Kong to face his extradition Snowdon leakage of confidential information relating to the cost of the effort.
The latest wrinkle in the Snowdon legend constitutes a different set of management issues, has spent several weeks parry is abusing its power to collect taxes investigating criminal activity and terrorism issues.
Monday, government officials said they had done all they could to bring to justice Snowdon. China's contempt, rather than bureaucracy, has let 30-year-old former contractor out of the Washington, Hong Kong, as officials re-extradition request, they said.
"This is a deliberate choice by the government to release a fugitive, although valid arrest warrant," White House spokesman Jay Carney said in a press conference.
Carney said early Monday afternoon after Snowdon still fleeing at the weekend in Moscow, Russia Hong Kong, which is the U.S. assumption.
Other government officials tried to dispel the foot dragging from Snowdon first went public on June 9, and dismissed the suggestion that they can take other measures to detain Snowdon, who won the highly sensitive information systems management as a contract Members of the U.S. National Security Agency any notion based in Hawaii.
Snowden's exact whereabouts Monday Russia resisted White House pressure to stop him in his journey to escape U.S. prosecution of a mystery.
Loft Aeroflot Flight from Moscow to Havana on Monday reporter saw no signs of Snowdon. Captain told reporters, emerging from the customs: "No Snowdon, no."
Ecuador said it is considering asylum applications Snowdon, and advocates in the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks also asked Iceland to take him in.
Snowden's decision to go on the lam to create another headache for the Obama administration, which has seen a string of scandals threatened like immigration reform priorities.
Republicans in Congress said the Obama administration abuse of power, against conservative groups stringent security vulnerabilities tax audit and investigation process to seize a reporter's phone records.
When it comes to the NSA revelation, most members of Congress have realized surveillance program, rarely raise objections. Republicans and large centralized Snowdon and China, rather than manage their criticism.
This could change if the test of drag. Monday New York Republican Rep. Peter King said Obama who ultimately control the semi-autonomous region of Hong Kong with the Chinese authorities should take a harder line.
"I hate the crisis in the middle of second guessing president, but where is he? Where's the president? Why he did not speak to the American people? Why he is not in dealing with foreign leaders more powerful you?" Said the king, CNN's TV.
Snowdon is also possible that management about how to download and take many highly sensitive documents when he was in Hawaii working NSA contractor Booz Allen increasingly embarrassing questions. National Security Bureau, responsible person Gen. Keith Alexander said on Sunday that he did not know why he did not catch the NSA Snowdon in Hawaii before leaving Hong Kong in May.
White House to circumvent
Obama first learned Snowdon has turned up on June 9 日 (Sunday) at Hong Kong, as he flew back to a weekend with Chinese President Xi Jinping talks.
But Obama does not appear, have played a direct role in trying to get him back. Obama on Monday declined to say whether he had directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other foreign leaders to speak on extradition efforts. A week ago, Obama has a meeting with Putin in icy Eight summit in Northern Ireland.
"We have been following all appropriate legal channels and work in other countries, in order to ensure the rule of observation," Obama told reporters last Monday in an unrelated incident on immigration reform.
Obama's public schedule leaves little room for extradition efforts. On Tuesday, he made an important speech on climate change, and then left for a week trip to Africa.
According to Republican President George · W · Bush, former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the extradition law is riddled with loopholes and other countries, the United States have limited ability to do what it wants.
"You can do all the paperwork, but it will become an issue of leverage," he said. "They either did not have enough, or they do not have enough exercise."
Although the White House distance from Snowdon events, other institutions pains to show that they have done all they can to bring Snowden face charges.
The Justice Department said it filed espionage and theft on Snowdon at June 14, a week before public charges and to request the Hong Kong arrest Snowdon day.
The FBI, Justice Department and State Department officials met with their counterparts in Hong Kong extradition Snowdon in the next few days, and finally a phone call U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Hong Kong between justice, Rimsky Yuen, on June 19.
"There is a feeling that the process is moving forward," Justice Department officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Hong Kong officials to ask for additional information and evidence, two days later, but did not give enough time to respond to the United States prior to June 23 Snowdon left the Chinese territory.
Government officials dismissed suggestions that they had mishandled extradition efforts. Justice Department officials said the so-called "red notice", requiring the International Criminal Police Organization, Interpol, to help Snowdon is unnecessary, because should not have been able to leave Hong Kong if his passport had been revoked.
U.S. officials say privacy laws prevent them from passports to describe any individual state, but Carney hinted that it has indeed been revoked.
Suggested that Hong Kong authorities have banned a lot of time of his travels, Mr. Snowdon travel documents state, "he said."
The 乔治特威利 grid, who served as the No. 2 Justice Department official under George · H · W · Bush said it was too early to know whether the agency should be attributed to failure to obtain Snowdon.
"These are not legal problems, their own political and diplomatic issues, most of the skills Exercise away from the public eye."
 



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