| inbluevt | Date: Sunday, 2013/08/04, 10:40 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Edward Snowden is partly a free man. Having been granted temporary asylum in Russia, he is able to move around the country, although he is likely to remain under the close watch of the Kremlin. His current location is the subject of mystery because Snowden did not disclose where he was headed before leaving the Moscow airport on Thursday.
In Washington, politicians are outraged by the move by Moscow to grant the whistleblower asylum for one year. White House spokesman Jay Carney
said, "We're extremely disappointed that the Russian government would take this step despite our very clear and lawful requests in public and in private to have Mr. Snowden expelled to the United States to face the charges against him. We're evaluating the utility of a summit in light
of this and other issues," he added.
Carney was referring to the upcoming G-20 summit in St. Petersburg, even though few seriously believe President Barack Obama will boycott the important meeting of the world's 20 most important industrial and emerging nations. As German public radio station Deutschlandradio noted,
"none of the world's major crises -- like Syria, the Middle East or Iran -- can be solved without Russia."
The station quoted one of its correspondents as saying that Russia would have preferred to avoid the scandal but that it saw no other choice but to grant asylum to Snowden given that the US had prevented any other solution. The correspondent described the move as a "targeted provocation".
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A still photo taken from Russia24 television shows whistleblower Edward Snowden leaving the Moscow airport on Thursday.
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