Meeting nearly daily, U.S. officials had hoped former NSA contractor Edward Snowden would slip up. He didn’t. (Vincent Kessler/Reuters)
U.S. Officials Scrambled To Nab Snowden, Hoping He Would Take A wrong Step. He Didn’t. -- Washington Post
While Edward Snowden was trapped in the transit zone of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport last year, U.S. officials were confronting their own dearth of options in the White House Situation Room.
For weeks, senior officials from the FBI, the CIA, the State Department and other agencies assembled nearly every day in a desperate search for a way to apprehend the former intelligence contractor who had exposed the inner workings of American espionage then fled to Hong Kong before ending up in Moscow.
Convened by White House homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco, the meetings kept ending at the same impasse: Have everyone make yet another round of appeals to their Russian counterparts and hope that Snowden makes a misstep.
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Update: CIA rendition jet was waiting in Europe to SNATCH SNOWDEN -- The Register
My Comment: The above post from The Register on how amateurs are able to track CIA rendition planes is an interesting read.
On a side note .... there is the FBI's top ten wanted .... and I suspect that in the intelligence community on their top ten Edward Snowden is somewhere near the top mixed in with with known international terrorists/arms dealers/and rogue agents. They want him bad .... and they want him to be locked away forever as a warning to future leakers.
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