For nearly a week now, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has been stuck in the transit zone of the Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow after leaving Hong Kong. Snowden is seeking asylum in Ecuador, prompting Vice President Joe Biden on Friday to ask that Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, to turn down that request.
But Correa said Ecuador cannot consider an asylum request until Snowden reaches Ecuador or one of its embassies.
On ABC's This Week, WikiLeaks founder Jullian Assange said it wasn't cool for Biden to make such a request.
This article appears in Jun 27 – Jul 3, 2013.