What Can The U.S. Do About Snowden? -- Charles A. Shanor, Special to CNN
(CNN) -- Edward Snowden, whose disclosures have triggered broad debate over the balance between privacy and national security, has left Hong Kong and is in Moscow, apparently headed to Ecuador.
Hong Kong and the Department of Justice have issued different stories about whether Hong Kong authorities had enough information to prevent Snowden's departure. Moscow says since Snowden remained in transit through the Moscow airport, he could not have been detained by them.
China and Russia seem delighted to facilitate Snowden's passage. Snowden's supporters assert a moral equivalence between surveillance by the United States and surveillance by China, Russia and other authoritarian regimes. This equivalence posits that surveillance by any nation, for whatever reason, whether of its citizens or of other nations, is morally equivalent.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Experts: U.S. has little hope of moving Putin, an ex-spy, to expel Snowden -- Hannah Allam, McClatchy Washington Bureau
NSA and the Pandora’s box of surveillance -- Jack Shafer, Reuters
What's Really Wrong with the Middle East? -- Aaron David Miller, Foreign Policy
State of Israel must come to terms with the fact that conflict with Arabs may be irresolvable -- Shaul Rosenfeld, YNet News
If it’s like father, like son, Qatar's Emir Tamim will certainly be no pushover -- Robert Fisk, The Independent
Egyptians must not let their country descend into chaos -- Wadah Khanfar, The Guardian
Egypt’s youth are still clinging to the 2011 revolution -- Andrew Doran, Jerusalem Post
The Origins of War in the DRC -- Armin Rosen, The Atlantic
U2's Bono credits evangelical Christians, George W Bush for saving 9 million Africans -- Kurt Wayne, American Thinker
China’s Coming Cash Crash? -- Gordon G. Chang, World Affairs
The Kevin Rudd Resurrection -- Sid Maher, The Australian
China’s Challenge to Netanyahu -- Max Boot, Commentary
Brazil's Leaders Opt for Circuses Without Bread -- Steven Malanga, Real Clear Markets
Obama Loses His Chances on Foreign Policy With the Collapse of His Second Term -- Conrad Black, New York Sun
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