Ghitis: The hypocrisy of Vladimir Putin
Frida Ghitis says it’s hypocritical for the Kremlin to defend Edward Snowden while convicting corruption-fighter Alexei Navalny.
View ArticleSnowden in Moscow: Former NSA spy seeks to leave airport
Edward Snowden hopes to by Wednesday be granted papers allowing him to end his month-long stay in a Moscow airport and move to the city centre.
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Snowden complying with Putin’s order
Edward Snowden has been fully complying with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s demand that he stop leaking US intelligence secrets as a condition for staying in Russia.
View ArticleSnowden hopes to leave Moscow airport on Wednesday
Edward Snowden hopes to be granted papers this week allowing him to end his month-long stay in the transit area of a Russian airport, says his lawyer.
View ArticleSnowden’s hopes of leaving Moscow airport dashed
Former US NSA contractor Edward Snowden has failed to secure permission from Russia to leave Sheremetyevo airport.
View ArticleLawyer: Snowden stuck at airport
U.S. leaker Edward Snowden has not received documents to leave Moscow airport, his lawyer says despite a report to the contrary.
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Snowden’s father says son ‘did what he knew was right’
Edward Snowden’s father came out swinging in support of his fugitive son Friday, saying the intelligence leaker did “what he knew was right.”
View ArticleSnowden’s father cautious of FBI’s travel request
Edward Snowden says he is willing to agree to a request by the FBI to fly to Moscow to see his son, but first needs to know what it wants.
View ArticleSnowden’s dad on new revelations
Edward Snowden’s father weighs in on today’s report in the Guardian on the NSA
View ArticleFBI wanted Snowden’s dad in Moscow
The FBI planned to fly Edward Snowden’s father to Moscow to encourage the National Security Agency leaker to come home to the United States, his father told The Washington Post.
View ArticleSnowden lawyer: Time for compromise
Edward Snowden’s lawyer is amenable to figuring out an end to satfisfy all, says his father’s lawyer, on the day of another leak of a NSA surveillance program.
View ArticleRussia ignores US pleas to hand Snowden over
Russia has rejected US pleas and granted Edward Snowden a year’s asylum, letting the former spy agency contractor slip out of a Moscow airport.
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Grand jury probing Snowden contractor
The company that has conducted the most recent security review of former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden is the subject of a federal grand jury investigation.
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Snowden awaits father’s visit in Russia: lawyer
The US fugitive Edward Snowden has acquired registration at an address in Russia and his father, lawyer and friends are in the process of obtaining Russian visas, his lawyer said Tuesday.
View ArticleEx-spy: U.S. likes Snowden in Russia
It was with a heavy heart that I heard Edward Snowden has been granted, and apparently accepted, temporary asylum in Russia for one year. Short of locking him naked in solitary confinement as an...
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Assange calls Obama reform plans ‘victory of sorts’ for Snowden
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has called President Barack Obama’s announcement of plans to limit sweeping US government surveillance programs a victory of sorts for fugitive former spy agency...
View ArticleAssange: ‘Snowden vindicated’
President Barack Obama’s plan to review U.S. surveillance programs has validated fugitive NSA leaker Edward Snowden’s role as a whistle-blower, the head of the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said Saturday.
View ArticleSnowden says father and lawyer do not speak for him
US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden says neither his father nor his father’s attorney speak for him "in any way".
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How UK spies confronted The Guardian
A British newspaper has released new details of its confrontation with the country’s intelligence service, saying it destroyed hard drives containing material leaked by Edward Snowden.
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Snowden did not stay at Russian Hong Kong consulate: lawyer
A lawyer for US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has denied reports that the fugitive had stayed at the Russian consulate in Hong Kong before his arrival in Moscow, according to an interview...
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