On Obama's cancellation of summit with Putin and extradition The US frequently refuses extradition requests where, unlike with Snowden, it involves serious crimes and there is an extradition treaty
As is to be expected, Glenn Greenwald has published his views on Obama's latest escalation of his dispute with Putin over the matter of Edward Snowden.
President Obama today canceled a long-scheduled summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in part because the US president is upset that Russia defied his personal directive to hand over Edward Snowden despite the lack of an extradition treaty between the two nations. That means that US media outlets will spend the next 24 hours or so channeling the government's views (excuse the redundancy) by denouncing the Russian evil of refusing extradition. When doing so, very few, if any, establishment media accounts will mention any of these cases:
He goes on to list a number of cases where the US has refused an extradition request from countries with which it has an extradition treaty. It does not have one with Russia.