By Dave Lindorff
Russian TV is reporting that Edward Snowden, the bete noir of the US national security state, who has leaked information that the National Security Agency is spying on all electronic communications of Americans, and on hundreds of millions of others around the globe, as well as on the leaders and the embassies of even many US allies, is accepting an offer of political asylum that has been extended by Russia, where he has been spending weeks in limbo in the Mosco Sheremetyevo Airport, unable to fly to asylum elsewhere.
According to the RT-TV report, Snowden, in accepting the Russian offer, would have to abide by a condition set by Russian President Vladimir Putin that he not continue releasing documents harmful to the US.
This deal, if the report is correct, leaves a lot of questions unanswered...
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