The government of Ecuador had already been distancing itself from Edward Snowden’s cause. But now the country’s President, Rafael Correa, has gone as far as to say that his government never intended to facilitate Snowden’s journey from Hong Kong to Moscow. He now says his consul in London, apparently in league with Assange, was freelancing. This comes after Snowden released a statement thanking the Ecuadorean government for making his flight (in both sense of the word possible). Read More

New at length statement released by Edward Snowden.

The gist of the message is that the Obama administration is using an “extralegal penalty” and violating his human rights by trying to have him extradited back to the United States. Read More