White House: "We expect" Hong Kong to comply with Snowden extradition

[Swede Atlanta]

10. What else would you expect?

I am not excusing the verbiage but that is common when there is a treaty between counties and one country elects to exercise a commitment under the agreement from the other country.

But it does raise some very interesting questions.....

1. Snowden's choice of Hong Kong (not quite China but still China) where his revelations confirm U.S. surveillance on Hong Kong and China

2. The fact China "owns" the U.S. Do not be deceived, based on the total trade balance and debt financing, China owns the U.S. Now we could always disavow those debts and become a rouge state but if we are true to our legal commitments, they own us.

3. The use of "expect" does suggest a certain degree of subservience which the Chinese can laugh off under point #2

4. If the U.S. government wasn't engaged in what may well be extra-constitutional spying on Americans and unwanted spying on non-Americans, there might not be an issue or it would be limited. If the FISA courts didn't rubber stamp broad requests to vacuum up everything in sight there might not be an issue or it would be limited.

I don't think that Obama, Holder and company devised some evil program. I think they are following in the footsteps of their predecessor as well acting out of fear of any potential attack. If they didn't do "everything" to protect us and there was some kind of attack, the right would be relentless in attacking him for being weak, a Muslim-appeaser, etc.