No asylum in Brazil

Elliot Hannon has a Slate article about hapless Edward Snowden:

After a day full of reports that Edward Snowden is in the market for a move to Brazil as an asylum seeker, a local Brazilian newspaper is reporting that the Brazilian government has no plans to offer the NSA leaker asylum in the country. The Brazilian Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper reports, according to Reuters, “citing unnamed government officials, that the Brazilian government has no interest in investigating the mass Internet surveillance programs Snowden revealed recently, and does not intend to give him asylum.” The report comes after Snowden wrote an open letter to Brazilians earlier, offering to help the Brazilian government investigate the extent of US spying, in exchange for permanent political asylum. Snowden is currently living in Moscow after being granted temporary asylum that is set to expire in August of 2014.

Rico says its back to the cold and chunky Russian women... (But Rico is taking bets that Snowden will eventually tire of this and redefect back to the US to take his lumps.)