Re:Internet traffic for Google, Facebook, Apple was briefly ...
by willstrafach on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @03:20PM
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This is incorrect, nobody was forced to land. He had a stopover in Russia (as he was flying Aeroflot).
Passport was not revoked mid-flight. It was supposed to be handled earlier, but it looks like a clerical error caused issues:
> Though the U.S. maintains it provided all the necessary facts, on Tuesday Hong Kong Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen told reporters that there was a discrepancy between U.S. and Hong Kong records over Snowden’s full name and that his department never received Snowden’s passport number, which it had requested.
Passport was not revoked mid-flight. It was supposed to be handled earlier, but it looks like a clerical error caused issues:
> Though the U.S. maintains it provided all the necessary facts, on Tuesday Hong Kong Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen told reporters that there was a discrepancy between U.S. and Hong Kong records over Snowden’s full name and that his department never received Snowden’s passport number, which it had requested.
(http://world.time.com/2013/06/25/snowdens-hong-kong-escape-w...)