Snowden's Lawyer Says the Whistleblower May Remain in Russia
By choice?
NSA leaker Edward Snowden plans to settle in Russia and is ready to begin a court battle if the country's migration service denies his asylum plea, Anatoly Kucherena, a Russian lawyer who assists the whistleblower, told RT.
"It's hard for me to say what his actions would be in terms of a positive decision [on the asylum plea]," Kucherena said. "We must understand that security is the number one issue in his case. I think the process of adaptation will take some time. It's an understandable process as he doesn't know the Russian language, our customs, and our laws."
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It is 2013. A US citizen widely seen by Americans as a hero is appealing for political asylum in the former USSR.
That sentence says absolutely horrible things about where the US government is today.
Easily one of the best sources for U.S. news is Kremlin-controlled Russia Today.
And THAT sentence says horrible things about what passes for "independent" news providers in the US.
We have to look to The Guardian or Der Spiegle or Russian Today to see what "our" government is doing to us.
Smartest libertarian ever!