iconimg Saturday, December 21, 2013  Washington, June 24, 2013
Since his first day in office, US President Barack Obama's
foreign policy has rested on outreach: resetting ties with
Russia, building a partnership with China and offering a fresh
start with antagonistic leaders from Iran to Venezuela. But the
global travels on Sunday of former National Security Agency
contractor Edward Snowden highlight the limits of that approach.
The cocky defiance by so-called "non-state actors" - Snowden
himself and the anti-secrecy group, WikiLeaks, completes the
picture of a world less willing than ever to bend to US
prescriptions of right and wrong.       •  Chronology of events
in US web snooping case   Snowden flew out of Hong Kong, the
semi-autonomous Chinese territory, early on Sunday after Hong
Kong authorities rebuffed a US request to detain him pending
extradition to the United States for trial.  Snowden has
acknowledged leaking details of highly classified NSA
surveillance programs.   But Snowden's next stop was