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d 4 @ 929N6 5:51 Pa | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019492 Prologue | 5 terms of the 1997 transfer of sovereignty from Great Britain, China is responsible for Hong Kong’s defense and foreign policy, includ- ing intelligence services. He then proceeded to Russia, which has no extradition treaty with the United States. R
time, he began dating Lindsay Mills, an extremely attractive nineteen-year-old art student at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Jonathan Mills, Lindsay’s father, was an applications developer at the Oracle Corporation. According to him, Snowden met his daughter on an Internet dating site. Snowden and
ted, seek bail, and fight extradition in court. Tibbo said @ he planned to mount a powerful legal defense against extradition by using a provision in Hong Kong’s extradition treaty with the United States that protects fugitives from persecution on political grounds. After he told Snowden that it would entail a
ll as other personal data. The loss would make it difficult to reconstruct her past activities with Snowden. In Hong Kong, if Snowden were following Lindsay’s online jour- nal, he would have read that his girlfriend had returned home, lost her data, and needed a “reprieve” from the situation in which he h
d in Hong Kong. Yet, Snowden chose to put his physical safety in the hands of China. One reason why Snowden may not have been overly concerned about Hong Kong’s extradition treaty with the U.S. was that he had never intended to test it by staying in Hong Kong after his media events. Snowden told the editor of
it hurts’—The information about Snowden’s modeling career comes from his posts on Ars Technica. See “Ars Technica Report,” op.cit. “Jonathan Mills, Lindsay’s father...”— Daniel Bates, “Snowden totally abandoned his girlfriend when he fled amid NSA revelations, her dad says,” Daily Mail, January 17, 2014.
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