http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/flight-su150-from-moscow-arrives-in-cuba-without-edward-snowden--but-ecuador-confirms-nsa-whistleblower-wants-asylum-8670308.html Whistleblower Edward Snowden Asks Ecuador For Asylum Edward Snowden The American administration is embarrassed, frustrated and very angry in the wake of the revelations by Edward Snowden, regarding two highly classified NSA surveillance programs, and his subsequent avoidance of extradition from Hong Kong. The reaction to these events over the past few days, has been verging on the hysterical, with Senator Dianne Feinstein, Secretary of State John Kerry White House spokesman Jay Carney and others appearing on our television screens and being quoted in the media, threatening all sorts of dire consequences for any country through which Snowden may have travelled on his way to political asylum. ...