BREAKING: Putin grants Russian citizenship to U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden
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Snowden fled the United States and was given asylum in Russia after revealing classified documents about the U.S. government's mass surveillance program in 2013.in October 2020, but his lawyers said at the time that he was not considering applying for Russian citizenship.in 2016, refuting claims that Snowden acted as a privacy whistleblower when he removed 1.5 million classified documents from secure NSA networks.
The report called Snowden's actions “the largest and most damaging public release of classified information in U.S. intelligence history.”to national security, and the vast majority of the documents he stole have nothing to do with programs impacting individual privacy interests — they pertain instead to military, defense, and intelligence programs of great interest to America’s adversaries.”
Snowden replied to the release of the report with a series of Tweets, which were posted on the Russian internet news outlet : “Unsurprising that HPSCI’s report is rifled [sic] with obvious falsehoods. The only surprise is how accidentally exonerating it is."at pardoning Snowden, prompting bipartisan rebuke.
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