Putin grants Russian citizenship to Snowden – IOTW Report

Putin grants Russian citizenship to Snowden

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has granted Russian citizenship to former NSA contractor and accused U.S. spy Edward Snowden, the Russian government announced Monday.

Snowden is accused of espionage and theft of government property for leaking to the media troves of information on United States intelligence and mass surveillance programs.

Snowden, 39, has been in Moscow after have first fled to Hong Kong following his 2013 leaking of the classified information.

He faces up to 30 years in prison in the U.S., according to CNN

In November 2020 Snowden and his wife, Lindsay Mills, applied for Russian citizenship. He had been already given permanent residency in Russia. read more

13 Comments on Putin grants Russian citizenship to Snowden

  1. Although I have a great deal of sympathy for Snowden, ultimately he made his own bed in the reckless (and some say traitorous) method in which he disseminated the information.

    Exposing the NSA’s meta-data program and their spying on Americans was a good thing. Had he only limited his data theft to this purview, he would have been hailed a hero.

    Maybe in the not-too-distant future, he can get a pardon and return home to where he no doubt would prefer to live.

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  2. The MSM is focusing on this issue so you won’t have time to focus on the master of all treasonous masters, Hillary Clinton. Snowden will never live long enough to expose all the Clinton acts of treason.

  3. So what. Joe Biden allowed in MILLIONS of illegal invaders into the US, having paid the foreign nations to have them ‘imported’ while issuing false promises of wealth to those collaborating nations and “asylum” for illegal invaders. Many of those illegals are spies, terrorists, drug traffickers, child traffickers, gun smugglers, rapists, prostitution rings, mules, coyotes, thieves, liars, murderers and every other evil under the sun which reflects Joe Biden’s criminal activities and true vile character under that human skin.

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