here s what carney had to say, brooke. the president made a call to president putin, and if he has not, why not? again, i don t have presidential communications to read out to you except to say there is no reason why, given international law, given the relationships that we have with the countries in question, that this would require a communication from the president. again, i m not reading out presidential communications. there are communications at all the appropriate levels. and we note as i just did that we have a strong cooperative relationship with the russians on law enforcement matters. and we expect the russians to examine the options available to them to expel mr. snowden for his return to the united states. brooke, there is a long history of russia returning violent criminals to the u.s. but if they view snowden as a criminal of conscience or a man who committed a political crime,
given international law, given the relationships that we have with countries in question, that this would require a communication from the president. again, i m not reading out presidential communications. there are communications at all the appropriate levels and we note, as i just did, that we have a strong cooperative relationship with the russians on law enforcement matters and we expect the russians to examine the options available to them to expel mr. snowden for his return to the united states. he isn t returned? as i just said when it comes to our relations with hong kong and china, that we see this as a setback in terms of their efforts to build the chinese, their efforts to build mutual trust and our concerns i think are pretty clearly stated. does the administration feel mr. snowden s already revealed everything he has to reveal? he said that he has access to the full roster of everyone working at the nsa, the entire intelligence community,
countries in question that this would require a communication from the president. again, i m not reading out presidential communications. there are communications at all the appropriate levels, and we note as i just did that we have a strong, cooperative relationship with the russians on law enforcement matters, and we expect the russians to examine the options available to them to expel mr. snowden for his return to the united states. [inaudible] because i think as i just said when it comes to our relations with hong kong and china that we see this as a setback in terms of their efforts to build, the chinese, their efforts to build mutual trust. and our concerns, i think, are pretty clearly stated. yes. does the administration feel mr. snowden s already revealed everything he has to reveal? he s said he has access to the full roster of everyone in the entire intelligence committee, do you believe he has access so that kind of information?
historically good partner of the united states in law enforcement matters. and we expect them to comply with the treaty in this case. edward snowden had been staying in a hong kong hotel, but checked out june 10. it s assumed he s still in hong kong, but it s not clear. rick: if china wants to put up a fight or make it difficult for the u.s. to get snowden back here, is there any way for them to do that? yes. hong kong is largely in many ways controlled by china and one hong kong law maker says china may step in and make sure snowden is not extradited so that chinese intelligence can get ahold of any u.s. secrets and paperwork that snowden has with him. here is what one east asia analyst said about that. china gets all the information that snowden has one way or another. it may take longer than a couple days, but that s going to occur. i m really concerned about that because snowden very well may have been working for them in the first instance. but even if he isn t, we know that
from oig inspection into ds operation. oig concluded they lack a fire wall to prevent higher-ups from interfering in ds probes, and high level department officials may once or twice a year brought pressure to bear to improperly halt or influence investigations. it undercuts the credibility of the entire agency, and undercuts testimony of other ds agents that they might have to provide in other law enforcement matters. if there s an allegation of misconduct of which i am not aware of for these two individuals, we would certainly take a look at that, as we would in any case, but you re also referring to a few lines, as i understand it, from a multi hour closed door deposition, which is likely taken out of context. reporter: fox news learned a self proclaimed whistleblower from the oig team that scrutinized operations of ds was