{"id":187061,"date":"2013-07-02T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/07\/02\/what-the-f-9\/"},"modified":"2013-07-02T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T01:30:00","slug":"what-the-f-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/07\/02\/what-the-f-9\/","title":{"rendered":"What the F%$#?"},"content":{"rendered":"
This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it. <\/span><\/div>\n

Authorities, forced down Bolivian President Evo Morales’ plane because he was suspected to be carrying Edward Snowden to Bolivia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales home from Russia was rerouted to Austria on Tuesday after France and Portugal refused to let it cross their airspace because of suspicions that NSA leaker Edward Snowden was on board, the country\u2019s foreign minister said.<\/span>

<\/span>Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca denied that Snowden was on the plane, which landed in Vienna, and said France and Portugal would have to explain why they canceled authorization for the plane.<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cWe don\u2019t know who invented this lie. We want to denounce to the international community this injustice with the plane of President Evo Morales,\u201d Choquehuanca said from Vienna, where the plane landed.<\/span>

<\/span>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cThis is a hostile act by the United States State Department which has used various European governments,\u201d said Bolivian Defense Minister Ruben Saavedra, who was on the flight.<\/span>

<\/span>Choquehuanca said in a statement that after France and Portugal canceled authorization for the flight, Spain\u2019s government allowed the plane to be refueled in its territory. From there the Falcon plane flew on to Vienna.<\/span>

<\/span>He said the decision by France and Portugal \u201cput at risk the life of the president.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They f%$#ing interfered with the f%$#ing flight of a f%$#ing diplomatic f%$#ing flight carrying a f%$#ing President of a f%$#ing sovereign f%$#ing nation, almost certainly as the result of a fairly explicit request from the United States.<\/p>\n

This is insane.  I’m beginning to think that Snowden knows a lot more than just the fact that the NSA spies on Americans and ignores the law and\/or uses a completely obedient FISA court as a fig leaf, because this level of pressure is a clear disaster for both the reputation and the foreign policy of the United States.<\/p>\n

Seriously.  What \u2026\u2026\u2026 the \u2026\u2026\u2026 f%$#?<\/p>\n

When you are making Vladimir Putin, who is saying that Snowden has to stop leaking if he wants asylum in Russia, seem like the only sensible person with an ounce of compassion in this entire affair.<\/p>\n

Seriously.  Vladimir Putin?  What \u2026\u2026\u2026 the \u2026\u2026\u2026 Oh, never mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it. Authorities, forced down Bolivian President Evo Morales’ plane because he was suspected to be carrying Edward Snowden to Bolivia: The plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales home from Russia was rerouted to Austria on …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1062,964,1103,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-espionage","category-foreign-relations","category-secrecy","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}