NEW : Political `` hue and cry '' does n't help chances for extradition , lawyer says . the U.S. State Department analyst : `` He 's pushing the envelope of how many places he can try to go '' Hong Kong 's foreign minister says he 's requested asylum there . ` And you know , he 's pushing the envelope of how many places he can try to go before he would fall into hands of being in custody and possibly extradited back to the U.S. ` WikiLeaks had been hiding out in Ecuador , but Snowden helped him leave .
NEW : Political `` hue and cry '' does n't help chances for extradition , lawyer says . the U.S. State Department analyst : `` He 's pushing the envelope of how many places he can try to go '' Hong Kong 's foreign minister says he 's requested asylum there . WikiLeaks had been hiding out in Ecuador , but Snowden helped him leave .