The President Doth Protest Not Enough

The president has said that he is not going to go to extraordinary measures to deal with Edward Snowden, a person he identified as a "hacker."

NBC News reports:

President Obama said he should not have to speak personally with the leaders of Russia and China regarding self-professed NSA leaker Edward Snowden, and said he was “not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker” during a press conference in Senegal on Thursday.

NBC news also reported:

Obama said that the revelations first published in British newspaper The Guardian and The Washington Post – and the ensuing search for Snowden, who has been charged with theft of government property and two offenses of espionage statutes – have the makings of a big-screen spy caper, but that he would not engage in “wheeling and dealing and trading and a whole host of other issues, simply to get a guy extradited so he can face the justice system here in the United States.”

What's up with President Chill? Methinks the President doth protest not enough. Especially since, we have this report, which indicates that the Obama Administration is all but operating in chill mode:

Vice President Biden has asked Ecuador to turn down an asylum request from National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, the country's president said Saturday.

Rafael Correa said he had a "friendly and very cordial" conversation with Biden, and told the vice president that Ecuador hadn't sought to be put in the situation of deciding whether to harbor an American fugitive. 

The chill posture that the President is taking is the first indication that Snowden is doing serious damage to the USG  big brother apparatus.