What a mess this is becoming.
How can Snowden be charged with being a spy, when that was his employment title for the US government? It can't be espionage and treason one minute and 'security' the next!
With Snowden admitting today in the
Guardian that Chinese mobile phone companies are hacked, and that the British also gain access, does that mean all those involved in these two countries can have extradition notices served on them by the Chinese, for being spies, that Cameron and Obama are ordered to hop on a plane to Beijing and explain themselves?
At best, it will take years to come to fruition, the extradition of Snowden to America, or he'll catch a train to China and stick his two fingers up to America. At worst it could bankrupt some of America's biggest technology companies, Facebook, MySpace, Apple, Yahoo, Google and many others. The business opportunity for someone to guarantee they will keep information safe is wide open for others to step in. And alienate America and Britain, with them becoming yesterday's USSR and East Germany.