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  • Russia gives Snowden pass to leave airport

    07/24/2013 5:47:01 AM PDT · by Sub-Driver · 11 replies
    Russia gives Snowden pass to leave airport RUSSIA'S migration service has provided fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden with a document that allows him to leave the Moscow airport transit zone where he has been holed up for the past month, the RIA Novosti news agency says. The document confirms that his application for asylum is being considered, but allows Snowden to cross the Russian border so long as border guards do not object, it said on Wednesday. The Interfax news agency said Snowden could leave the airport in the "next hours". The Interfax news agency added that the document...
  • Edward Snowden hopes to be granted papers allowing him to escape airport

    07/23/2013 6:16:33 PM PDT · by NCjim · 8 replies
    New York Daily News ^ | July 23, 2013 | Stephen Rex Brown
    Edward Snowden hopes to be granted papers by Wednesday that would allow him to leave Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow, where he has been holed up since June 23, his Russian lawyer says. Anatoly Kucherena, who has assisted the fugitive American leaker in his bid for asylum in Russia, said Monday that Snowden’s application may take three months to process. The lawyer said the papers, which he expects to receive “shortly,” will permit Snowden to pass through immigration and travel to the city’s center in the meantime. The former defense contractor leaked National Security Administration documents revealing America’s worldwide surveillance apparatus....