 "NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden finally leaves Moscow airport")
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has finally received immigration documents and been allowed to leave Moscow airport on Wednesday. While the ex-NSA contractor is getting a temporary reprieve from his month long stay at the Sheremetyevo airport, Russian officials are still considering his application for permanent political asylum, this according to USA Today.
The report states that Snowden received a packet of documents at the hands of his Russian lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, which allowed him to leave the transit zone of the airport and get through Russian customs. Talking about this, Interfax news agency, the first to get the news said, “The American is currently getting ready to leave. He will be given new clothes.” The news agency’s report indicated that he showed the documents at border control at the airport.
The 30-year-old former defense contractor first fled to Hong Kong and then Russia, where he has been stuck in the transit zone of the airport since June 23. Snowden currently faces charges under the Espionage Act for having given out classified information to reporters about the clandestine National Security Agency’s surveillance and data-gathering network, called PRISM.
Whistle blower Edward Snowden finally allowed to leave Moscow airport…
According to the first report, Snowden received a document from the Federal Migration Service when he applied for asylum which allowed him to leave the airport transit area “as long as there are no objections from the border patrol.”
While Snowden applied for temporary asylum in Russia on July 16, the final decision on his request for permanent political asylum will take at least three months. As earlier reported, Snowden, has been offered asylum in Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua.
While talking to RT.com, Kucherena said that the whistleblower may look to permanently settle in Russia rather than look for asylum elsewhere. Continuing her statement, Kucherena said, “He’s planning to arrange his life here. He plans to get a job. And, I think, that all his further decisions will be made considering the situation he found himself in.”
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