The question here is if that government is willing to encourage such leak against secret agencies of a government. If a government granted Snowden such asylum, what kind of signal it sends to its own employees?<p>I am a supporter of Snowden, but I doubt there is a "free" government that will take the same side as Snowden against the U.S. government. Snowden might have a better chance with a government that deem U.S. government as an enemy such as Cuba. But there might be a dilemma that the U.S. government can portrait him as one that took the enemy's side.
Hmm. Ecuador afaik has been wavering a bit under US diplomatic pressure in the past week as far as I could tell, but I wonder if these now applications will impel them to act wrt Snowden. I imagine the courtry derives some benefit from being the mindshare owner as safehaven for the recent whisteblowers.
Smart move including all these countries. The media in each country will report on it, and the citizens will be forced to think about it. A groundswell may form in one of them.
While it would make me proud if my country granted asylum to Snowden, I'm quite sure that no European politician will dare provoke the wrath of the American Empire -- there would be no clear benefits but obvious disadvantages.
A large contingent of mainstream European nations included. Europe stepping forward to defend Snowden and stand against surveillance may tilt the balance. Europe is quite angry about being the "OK to do 100% surveillance on" foreigners.
Some of these seem like shots in the dark, but I can't imagine both Cuba and Venezuela not offering Snowden asylum if he can get there. They really have nothing to lose in the pissing-the-US off department.<p>an EU country offering asylum would indeed be huge, I just can't see it happening.
Scanned Snowden application received by polish government: <a href="http://www.tvn24.pl/msz-polska-nie-ma-interesu-w-udzieleniu-azylu-snowdenowi,336820,s.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.tvn24.pl/msz-polska-nie-ma-interesu-w-udzieleniu-...</a>
I would have asked Serbia as well. Although they're a small country, they could resist US because of Snowden. They have been bombarded by NATO and later, they've been forced to accept a secession of Kosovo.