Russian “President” Vladimir Putin granted NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden Russian citizenship.
In 2013, Snowden exposed the NSA’s plans to spy on American citizens in the U.S. and around the country. It wasn’t an intelligence leak. He tried to go through the proper channels in the government, but everyone ignored him.
Snowden fled to Hong Kong but only went to Moscow when Obama’s DOJ unsealed charges against him for violating the Espionage Act of 1917.
Russia gave Snowden asylum. In 2020, the Russian government gave Snowden permanent residency two years ago.
Snowden gave those classified NSA documents to journalists like Glenn Greenwald.
Greenwald reminded everyone today that the same people who now smear Snowden are the ones who had no problems publishing his documents and story.
Also, Snowden didn’t want to be in Russia, but the moves by the Obama administration trapped him in Moscow. The following administrations didn’t make it easier on him either.
All of this even though the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled the NSA program “was unlawful – and that the U.S. intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were not telling the truth.”
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