rule of law. and that has not been determined yet. we re going to get back to you shortly. we know you ll be in the hotel in the transit area as well. we ll get back to you with more. meanwhile, the white house is asking russia to expel snowden based on his passport being revoked and the espionage charges that have been leveled against him. but the obama administration may not have too much leverage to force putin s hand. let s bring in our correspondent jill doherty. she s picking up this part of the story. jill? reporter: yeah, they really don t. and a really interesting detail, putin today suggesting that suggestion security agents are not working with mr. snowden. another detail that came out today as he broke his silence on this case. russian president vladimir putin put a stop to the speculation about where snowden was.
darrell issa says this? i said it comes out of washington. reporter: do you think based on what you have know now that the white house simply was not involved, that the obama political team was not involved? for years the president bashed the tea party groups. he was very public against these groups and on his behalf, perhaps not on his request, the irs executed a delaying tactic against the very groups that he talked about. reporter: but do you have evidence of that based on the interviews that you ve done or are you making an assumption? dana, can you not close a case on what you don t know. you can only close a case on what you do know. reporter: translation, issa and many fellow republicans are not letting the president off the hook on this and say they re not going to do this until they finished their investigation. gop sources say they re just in the opening stages of the
since the law was enacted. as roberts read the decisions, the court s conservative majority read along with him but the liberal justices on the losing side stared stone faced into the audience. justice ginsburg said there was sad irony in the court s utter failure to grasp why the law has proven effective. civil rights advocates angry and disappointed. we come a long way but we are no there yet. we re not there where we need to be yet. in a statement president obama said he was deeply disappointed and said the decision upsets decades of well established practices that helps make sure voting is fair, especially in places where voting discrimination was prevalent. we will not hesitate to take swift enforcement action using every legal tool that remains to us. this case could have a lot of impact on elections at the local
how much coordination, if any, has wikileaks done with authorities in moscow to make sure he s okay, edward snowden. as has been reported, there was no cooperation with russians prior to him coming to moscow. that remains the case. when he leaves now that his passport has been revoked, he ll have to leave under a legal transit document. does he have something like that? has ecuador given those transit papers he would need to leave russia legally? i cannot go into details on what kind of documents that he may or may not have assisting him in going from one place to another. i simply want to reiterate that of course he left hong kong legally and for moscow. and will continue his journey at a later time.
russia seven people in the last two years that they requested that we did without any clamor, without any ranker, without any argument and according to our sense of the appropriateness of meeting their request. that s what we would hope they would reciprocate with here today. reporter: those seven were high level criminals. from 2007 to 2012, the u.s. at moscow s request deported more than 1700 russian citizens back to russia. more than 500 of them criminal deportations. and wolf, the irony here is there s no extradition treaty because back in the old cold war days, the united states didn t need did not want one fearing that they d have to turn over dissidents to moscow. now, president putin says he doesn t want this case to hurt