{"id":36912,"date":"2013-08-02T06:45:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T10:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36912"},"modified":"2013-08-02T06:46:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T10:46:49","slug":"russia-gives-snowden-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36912","title":{"rendered":"Russia Gives Snowden Asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to press reports, Russia has granted <del>that damned turncoat<\/del> former NSA contractor Eric Snowden &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/08\/01\/snowden-reportedly-leaves-moscow-airport-enters-russia-on-refugee-status\/\">refugee status<\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0 Reportedly, he&#8217;s been granted a one year temporary asylum and has been allowed to leave Moscow&#8217;s Sheremetyevo Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Raise your hand if you&#8217;re surprised.\u00a0 Yeah &#8211; me neither.\u00a0 I&#8217;d guess the Russian intelligence folks are probably already debriefing him in detail and going through every scrap of information he brought with him as part of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>But hey &#8211; the current Administration has restored respect for the US worldwide, right?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, right.\u00a0 A diplomatic slap in the face is a truly strange sign of respect.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow I just don&#8217;t see this happening 5 or 6 years ago.\u00a0 But maybe that&#8217;s just me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to press reports, Russia has granted that damned turncoat former NSA contractor Eric Snowden &#8220;refugee &hellip; <a title=\"Russia Gives Snowden Asylum\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36912\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russia Gives Snowden Asylum<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}