Recent news of formal charges in a sealed indictment laid against accused leaker/Whistleblower Snowden takes another turn.

Snowden is reputed to be hiding in Hong Kong, although his current location and status has not been verified.

Although Hong Kong has had an extradition agreement in place with the United States since 1998, the tiny community returned to Chinese oversight and control with the repatriation of Hong Kong from the British.  Given the extreme high profile nature of the case, Hong Kong officials have referred the case back to the mainland Chinese government, making any extradition cooperation tenuous.

The UK Daily Mail has reported that the Wikileaks foundation is stating that secret talks have taken place to provide Snowden permanent asylum and refuge in Iceland, and a chartered plane stands by to spirit him there.