He would have had to get there. He was stuck behind customs in a Russian airport and the president's plane had already been grounded looking for him.

Documentation sounds like it would do very little to deter rendition by a nation-state.

Kidnapping from another country followed by torture has only been done by a couple of countries recently. The term 'rendition' sounds much more civilised though, and 'nation-state' makes it sound like a government other than that of the US might do it to Snowden.

It's an ugly, ugly exercise of power.

I have the odd tie in of having lived near an airport in NC where the CIA was operating small jets to conduct those "renditions" (read: kidnappings) overseas during the Bush II years.

The other place in the US that is weird: The base known as "The Farm" right next to Colonial Williamsburg which is neither fish nor fowl--a lot of people and things get moved in and out of the US from there with zero accountability.

We badly need to get the US government back under control because the things done in our names are simply evil.

Please read the post you're responding to again.

The part where the plane was forced to land.

Had Snowden been in Evo Morales plane nothing could have been done about it. That plane was extraterratorial.

Quite possibly, but they never tried to prevent him from flying, so that's irrelevant here.