Snowden offered asylum - Venezuela

Edward Snowden, whistleblower extraordinare, of the NSA, holed up in a Moscow airport, after suffering a raft of rejections for asylum applications, has been offered Asylum by Venezuela.

The first to step up to the plate is apparently Venezuela, as it's president Nicolas Maduro stated during a parade that it has rejected US requests for extradition and will offer him political and humanitarian asylum. Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega previously said his country would offer Snowden asylum "if circumstances permit." more

I dunno how the hell he's going to manage to get there though, judging by Assange's bad luck in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. The US has indicated it's been working behind the scenes threatening any country that helps him. Let's hope he gives the Empire the slip. I'd hate to see the guy locked up in Washington for years without trial being threatened with a death sentence for "aiding the enemy".

Update:

"As head of state of the Boliviarian republic of Venezuela, I have decided to offer humanitarian asylum to the young Snowden ... to protect this young man from the persecution launched by the most powerful empire in the world," Mr Maduro said at an independence day event. Read more