Moscow - "So why can't I?" That appears to be the bottom line at the Russian Interior Ministry this week where Edward Snowden's Russian asylum application is being vetted for unseens.
The US justice fugitive may be playing his biggest bluff yet via a series of leaks promising to reveal documentary evidence of American presidents' decades of treachery.
Posting on the subscription-only Disposition Matrix Forum under the screen name Georgie Dahlink whistleblower Snowden has vowed to publish 'proof' of all three Russian passports issued to the current and previous US presidents.
"It's time the American electorate knew," Snowden's Great Aunt Dymphna tweeted from Timbuktu.