On Chris Hayes‘ express tonight, Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald reacted to tonight’s information that Edward Snowden will have been on a plane the place his fellow passenger was once Bolivian president Evo Morales. Greenwald told Hayes that it’s “phenomenal” that France and Portugal if truth be told averted the Bolivian airplane from entering its airspace because they thought Snowden used to be on board. He marveled on the “rogue nation conduct” from these two nations for denying Snowden’s criminal ability to are searching for asylum.

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Greenwald mentioned, “Asylum is a centuries-old proper in world legislation,” and lamented how it seems that Western countries like France & Portugal “no longer acknowledge… amnesty as a sound concept of world regulation, and they are going to in truth forcibly forestall other nations from granting it, it’s really rogue nation behavior.”

Hayes performed devil’s advocate and prompt it’s only a “rather usual” follow for america to take big steps to get back anyone who’s been charged with a significant crime. Greenwald shot back that asylum is granted to people charged with crimes at all times, in any other case asylum would principally be invalid. He mentioned the merciless and inhuman treatment Bradley Manning suffered after the U.S. charged him with espionage, and once more slammed France and Portugal for going via the “regulation of the jungle.”

On the statement released Monday supposedly from Snowden, Greenwald said “the core ideas” had been in line with Snowden’s views, but suspected it was once “flavored with some one who isn’t Edward Snowden” and had a “virulent tone to it that didn’t strike me as his personal.”

Watch the video below, courtesy of MSNBC:

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