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Is Snowden stuck? Fugitive NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden remained holed up in Moscow’s airport this week after bolting from Hong Kong. The open-government group WikiLeaks said one of its lawyers was with him. The U.S. asked Russia to extradite Snowden, who has been charged with treason for leaking details of a vast U.S. surveillance program. But Russia and the U.S. have no extradition treaty, and President Vladimir Putin said that since Snowden was in the airport’s transit lounge, rather than on Russian territory proper, he wasn’t Russia’s concern. “I prefer not to deal with these issues,” he said. “It’s like shearing a baby pig; there’s a lot of squealing but not a lot of wool.” Ecuador, meanwhile, said it had received Snowden’s asylum request and would take “a few months” to consider it.

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