On Obama's cancellation of summit with Putin and extradition [ Glenn Greenwald

The US frequently refuses extradition requests where, unlike with Snowden, it involves serious crimes and there is an extradition treaty

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President Obama today canceled a long-scheduled summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in part because the US president is upset that Russia defied his personal directive to hand over Edward Snowden despite the lack of an extradition treaty between the two nations. That means that US media outlets will spend the next 24 hours or so channe...