MOSCOW — National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in Russia for one year and left a Moscow airport Thursday to formally enter the country’s territory, according to his lawyer.
Anatoly Kucherena, Snowden’s legal representative, told RT, a Russian television network, that the papers issued by the Russian Immigration Service allow him to live, work and travel in Russia for a year.
So, if there was anything that the NSA knew that you didn’t want the Russians to know… yeah, that ship may or may not have sailed. I’d snark about that more, except that I don’t actually think that any of this was or is funny.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
PS: You may safely assume that I am not taking seriously any suggestion that Ed Snowden’s adventures in Russia will be over within the year. Certainly Russian intelligence and counter-intelligence agencies intend for Snowden to have a nice, long visit…
How’s that Reset Button working out?
Moe, are you on Crack, or perhaps under the influence of small children? The important part of the story is that Snowden got a job, no problem. Rest assured the Russians have agents in our (democrat from top to bottom) system, the Chinese have agents in our system, Fiji has agents in our system. They only people who don’t know our secrets are the American people, because it’s one thing to hire a Communist spy, another thing altogether to hire a Republican……
Sadly, all too plausible.
Well Russian Security forces should monitor him closely. Nothing in the world, certainly not US Constitution forbids CIA from hiring contractors from kidnapping him to be delivered to a courthouse ala The Dark Knight’s Hong Kong extraction. The US court have ALWAYS held that constitutional protection only applies in United States. He can be kidnapped and sold for profit and there’s nothing illegal about it. It might be illegal in Russia, but that’s not what counts.